Just Plain Good Eating

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At Grandma's House.

Menu
Breakfast

Homemade biscuits,
Fresh side of pork(They raised them selfs)
Farm fresh eggs(Brown)
Homemade gravy for them biscuits
Country tater,s
Glass of fresh cows milk(Taste different when Pasteurized)
Homemade butter
Honey from the nearest tree. Homespun.

Lunch
Some of those biscuits left over from breakfast
Slab of smoked bacon
Apple from the tree in the front yard or the cellar
Bowl of soup made from a chicken that was running around the chicken house just hours earlier.(nothing beat her fried chicken. Not even the Kernel at Kentucky fried.)
Glass of fresh squeezed apple juice by the cider press (from the tree in the front yard)

Dinner
Squirrel and dumplings(boys just shot and skinned)
Polk greens( from out in the woods)
Black eye peas(from the garden)
Watercress salad(from the nearest creek)
Cornbread
Huckleberry pie for dessert. (they picked them self's)
Whole milk( from the cow in the pasture)
Fresh made jam and home made butter

All cooked on a old wood stove.

OMG I,m drooling. Best meal I have ever eaten. Don't knock until you try it. Grandma made a blackberry cobbler to die for . Fried squirrel and gravy was unbelievable too What I would give to eat at grandma's again............. .

posted by gatemate

You have got me thinking about my grandparent's farm. My grandma made a jam cake from the jam she made that was soooo goood

posted by pauletta
over 2 years ago

We have lost of whole lots of tallent and abilities when you come to realize that half the country thinks a good meal comes from BK/MD's etc. I have seen the tallents of my wife in crossstich passed on from her side of the family only being picked up by 2 of her 8 kids. This is why you and I have talked about Herbal medicine, lots of knowledge has been forgotten and will be lost in future generations, Gate. Yes they knew how to really cook. Today "those old folks don't know nothing This ia a new world!!!!!!!" Right!!!!

posted by jaypaco
over 2 years ago

I grew up with a grandmother who kept her wood stove until the day she died. Although she had an electric range, the wood stove still got used. Fried chicken in an iron skillet cooked on that stove is hard to beat. My love of cooking comes primarily from her, and I still make my biscuits with buttermilk and from scratch.

posted by CookingLady
over 2 years ago

You know I think part of what made that food taste so good was it cooked over wood. I know when I cook over a camp fire it taste better too. I know some of them mountain folk will not cook over anything else. They have bought up all those old wood stoves. They are not just for show . They use them in there cabins. Some have electricity ran to the cabin but still they use wood. to cook. Wood makes a steak taste better. Maybe we are missing the boat with all these new fangled things, "as my grandma would have said"

posted by gatemate
over 2 years ago