Some of my favorite Southern foods are Fried Chicken, Chicken and Dumplings, Biscuits (served with strawberry preserves, honey, or sausage gravy), and a meal made of Soup Beans (which is usually Pinto beans cooked with hog jowls or ham hocks), Fried Taters and Cornbread.
Some Appalachian desserts that I am fond of are Blackberry Dumplings made from wild berries, Apple Stack Cake, and Fried Apple Pies.
It has been a while since I had another Appalachian dish known as Kilt Lettuce. This is a dish of new spring lettuce and green onions that has be wilted with a mixture of hot bacon grease and vinegar.
I am originally from Texas and the thing I missed most from there was real TexMex. Thankfully, that situation improved shortly after I moved here due to a change in demographics. Another thing that I miss from there is sliced beef brisket BBQ.