Enough Already!!

[cloudy]

Cloudy, if your mother made it, we should all be lined up with dishes in our outstretched hands! Drooooooool . . .

Southern cookin' . . . Wow!

That's something that people who haven't spent any time down here just don't get. We really know how to cook.

 

[michchick98]

I just saw the umpteenth commercial for greenbean casserole for the holidays.

Time to pony up and tell the truth.

Do ya REALLY like greenbean casserole or are you just being polite (and thus prolonging the agony) when you actuallty eat that crap?

Let me say this here and now...if you come to my house with greenbean casserole...I will sick the cat on you...and then turn the hose on you as well.


Just saying.


Yuck.

I guess I'm in the category with the few people who like GBC if it's made right. I've had really bad GBC, but I've had really good, also.

My mom's never made it as far as I can remember and I don't think anyone in my family has either, but last year or the year before at our holiday party at work, someone brought it in and it was pretty good.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

That's something that people who haven't spent any time down here just don't get. We really know how to cook.

I truly enjoyed Chattanooga last April and am looking forward to Charlotte next April with bated breath and active salivary glands. Mmm-mm!

 

[cloudy]

I truly enjoyed Chattanooga last April and am looking forward to Charlotte next April with bated breath and active salivary glands. Mmm-mm!

The best places to eat are little hole-in-the-wall diners with ripped vinyl on the seats and formica counters.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

So noted! I'll pass the word to the group.

 

[cantdog]

That's something that people who haven't spent any time down here just don't get. We know how to cook.

Whereas, the Rocky Mountain West is fer shit. Oh, they know their beef. But it was slim ass pickings out there. I mean Colorado, Utah, Montana, that area. Beef treated with respect, but no particular accompaniment. Very rudimentary vegetable dishes and salads, and no stews, casseroles, NO seafood nor fish (despite the steelhead trout in the streams)-- really an arid and empty cuisine.

This was restaurants, of course, not at-home cooking. The diners alone reflect home cooking, especially truck stops (it's truck stops that offer meat loaf dinner or smothered beef and onions). But really! Wouldn't you think a person wouldn't start a restaurant business unless she imagined herself to know how to cook, or at least had a 'chef' in mind who could lay down good food? But Montana restaurants are wastelands, man, mostly. The Mississippi valley has a tradition of barbecue, and there's barbeque and also chili and Tex-Mex in the southwest. Southern cuisine is a style unto itself. Cajun and creole cooking is a marvelous and well-developed suite of flavors, with its own traditions and specialties. But the arid and mountainous west has nothing.

 

[Safe_Bet]

...looking forward to Charlotte next April with bated breath...

Stop eating the damn bait and you can drool over a REAL fish!
(and I've been meaning to talk to you about that bait breath anyway!)

 

[Safe_Bet]

Whereas, the Rocky Mountain West is fer shit. Oh, they know their beef. But it was slim ass pickings out there. I mean Colorado, Utah, Montana, that area. Beef treated with respect, but no particular accompaniment. Very rudimentary vegetable dishes and salads, and no stews, casseroles, NO seafood nor fish (despite the steelhead trout in the streams)-- really an arid and empty cuisine.

This was restaurants, of course, not at-home cooking. The diners alone reflect home cooking, especially truck stops (it's truck stops that offer meat loaf dinner or smothered beef and onions). But really! Wouldn't you think a person wouldn't start a restaurant business unless she imagined herself to know how to cook, or at least had a 'chef' in mind who could lay down good food? But Montana restaurants are wastelands, man, mostly. The Mississippi valley has a tradition of barbecue, and there's barbeque and also chili and Tex-Mex in the southwest. Southern cuisine is a style unto itself. Cajun and creole cooking is a marvelous and well-developed suite of flavors, with its own traditions and specialties. But the arid and mountainous west has nothing.

cantdog.... <--- Elitist East Coast Food Snob

 

[cantdog]

Okay. I've now looked to see what the thread was supposed to be about.

First, you can refine green bean casserole, but it's not going to be gourmet fare. Tyler Florence has a superb version, but you never do that much effort on a side dish except for feast days. And, pardon me, if it were absent, I would not mind.

Secondly, Brussels sprouts are best halved and rubbed with garlic bits and oil, then roasted. The bitter little things, all browned and with the outer leaves fallen down and really almost blackened? Well. Whoever thought that boiling them to death was a good idea should be laughed out of town.

 

[Misty_Morning]

That's something that people who haven't spent any time down here just don't get. We really know how to cook.

I had a craving for pan fried potatoes and onions earlier. But I didn't have any onions.

Told Grace how to make them and now she's gonna make them tomorrow.

Byt the time she finally gets to Florida, she'll have plenty of experience with southern cuisine.




Oh, and I'm not a fan of brussel spouts, but I'm gonna havta try 3's recipe...looks very yummy!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Cantdog has obviously never been to California. Imagine believing that anything on the East Coast can compare with cioppino with the restaurants of the Wine Country (I especially toast the thriving community of Yountville), with the fresh fruit and green salads we take so for granted here. Northeastern food beyond lobster and clambakes? sigh.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I had a craving for pan fried potatoes and onions earlier. But I didn't have any onions.

Told Grace how to make them and now she's gonna make them tomorrow.

Byt the time she finally gets to Florida, she'll have plenty of experience with southern cuisine.




Oh, and I'm not a fan of brussel spouts, but I'm gonna havta try 3's recipe...looks very yummy!

A house with no onions???

 

[Misty_Morning]

A house with no onions???

I know, I should be tarred and feathered.

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

A house with no onions???

I know! how ridiculous is such a notion...i think i shall have to punish Misty...with a zuchini! *evil laugh*



it's 8:15 am and i am knackered...this is sleepyness talking

 

[Guest]

I guess I'm in the category with the few people who like GBC if it's made right. I've had really bad GBC, but I've had really good, also.

My mom's never made it as far as I can remember and I don't think anyone in my family has either, but last year or the year before at our holiday party at work, someone brought it in and it was pretty good.

I always make it for Thanksgiving. Hubby and I really like it.

This year both our kids discovered it and asked me to make it again for Christmas dinner. Something about those crispy onion ring bits on top.