Pagan Journeys
General Topics => General Chat => Topic started by: earthmuffin on March 30, 2011, 09:11:23 PM
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The country ham discussion got me thinking about other regional or local delicacies that I have been missing. I was thinking it would be fun to hear if you have some favorites that you have encountered or if there are some famous to your area.
Mine are (in no particular order):
Virginia ham-- a dry salt-cured ham
Pasties (pronounced pass-tees)-- a pastry filled with meat, rutabaga and carrots that is popular in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Spedies-- cubes of lamb, pork or chicken marinated in a special sauce and served on a slice of Italian bread from upstate New York
Coney dog-- In Detroit, they have restaurants that just serve hot dogs and fries with cheese and onions or chili on them. You can actually get a pizza with coney dog and onions on it there.
Brats and hotdish-- eaten a lot in Minnesota. Brats are greasy sausages usually cooked in beer and then grilled. Hot dish is any type of casserole.
Halupchi -- a Ukranian dish of cabbage leaves stuffed with ground meats and baked in a tomato based sauce. There are many variations of this.
Ranch dressing-- this is a new one I am beginning to develop a taste for. Here in northern California people eat it as a sauce on everything including pizza.
"Green spaghetti" and stuffed zucchini-- My mom raised us on these northern Italian dishes. It wasn't until I was much older that I realized that green spaghetti is actually pasta with pesto.
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I love this topic!! I spend a lot of time in my kitchen cooking. This morning I have homemade white bread baking or will be once the last rise is done.
Coney Dogs: Love them with everything under the sun on them. This does gross out my husbands family when I eat these. LOL
Sushi- love california rolls and about anything in this catagory
Truthfully, I love about any type of food and love making new recipes or trying new things. I have to check out the cooking section but just haven't made it there yet. Maybe I will have time this weekend. Time now to get ready to walk the streets (ok I put up fliers for my business not hookering).
Have a wonderful day!!
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A very Hoosier dish is fried tenderloin sandwiches. State fair porkchops, corn on the cob, and fried anything... Renn fair Scoth eggs...
peace,
ES
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A Seattle staple, our version of fast food, is rice bowls. Little teriyaki shops are almost as common as Starbucks. Five dollars will get you rice, teriyaki chicken or beef, and salad with ranch dressing. I eat them way too much. :D
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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.
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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.
:yeahthat: :tongueroll:
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My Ghostie loves his Fried Taters. :D
Oh, I forgot one of my favorites. Fried Green Tomatoes. :tongueroll:
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DS is making me hungry. The blackberry dumplings sound like they could be a favorite of mine and also possible apple stack cake. Might have to get some of these recipes. :whistle: I'm wondering is Kilt Lettuce "killed" lettuce? :rotflmao:
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I've always known it as wilted lettuce.
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What's under the kilted lettuce? :whistle:
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:laughfit:
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:rotflmao:
Nothin' but bacon grease!
EM, I do believe that "kilt" is hillbilly for "killed".
I have never written down the recipe for blackberry dumplings. Basically, you pick a good mess of them berries and add about 1/3 as much sugar as you have berries. Then you bring it to a slow boil and drop the dumplin's in there and let 'em cook till they shrink back down. I use basic biscuit dough except I add sugar to the dough. Then you serve 'em hot with some cream. Yummy!
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Eeeep! I. MUST. HAVE. THAT. :tongueroll:
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I think my stomache and intestines just complained about some of the food items posted. :omg: I guess that's what happens when you are a wellness coach. But love the idea of some balackberry cobbler. A small portion would be great!!!
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Mine don't complain a bit! :D
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What kinds of foods do you usually eat then? And I am betting you don't make all your bread items from scratch do you? Spaghetti warehouse kicked me in the butt :ill: Now I know why I fix most everything from scratch myself at home.
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Usually traditional Southern foods. And Steak. And bacon... :tongueroll:
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I live near Necastle, North East of England and one thing ive noticed which is mainly just our area is greggs ham and peas pudding stottie! its yummy!
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You may want to explain what that is for us 'merikans.
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I live near Necastle, North East of England and one thing ive noticed which is mainly just our area is greggs ham and peas pudding stottie! its yummy!
Newcastle??? I lived up that way for a whole two weeks
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I could eat blackberries and dumplings ALL.DAY.LONG. Hmmm....maybe that's why i'm fat :whistle:
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in chester, sc they have a
*Cyclone that serves sour cream that goes great with the baked potatoes they have or mcdonalds french fries
*gas station that have awesome hot dogs with chilly and cole slaw
*gas station that has tater wedges that everyone knows as the TATER STORE
i wanta go home so bad! yum :loveheart: