View Full Version : Soul Food loves
Yekhefah
09-27-2008, 08:33 PM
You know you're welcome here anytime! Get on up here so I can feed you some more.
Kyleigh1984
09-27-2008, 09:59 PM
Buttermilk Biscuits:P
Victoryx0x0
09-28-2008, 12:29 AM
fried chicken, collard greens, cabbage, turkey wings, candy yams, peach cobbler
AnjuliGabel
09-28-2008, 09:47 AM
Ooooooh, I love soul food!
We had 4 or 5 vegan soul food picnics this summer.. complete with sweet tea and red velvet cake. Amazing!
CKXXX
09-28-2008, 10:58 AM
^^ooo..red velvet cake..hell yeah!
Crow2
09-28-2008, 03:34 PM
( Dont laugh ) It's called a grunt.. like cobbler but the dough is heavy and cakey - so when you supposedly lift it, you.. well make a grunt noise.
Pickled okra,
Pickled quail eggs..
Black eyed peas with a HUGE slab of fatback swimming in it ( salt pork to you yankee folk )
My cousins and I use to fight over the fatback hunk in the peas.
Johhnyjumpup cake - it's like yek's cornbread, but sweeter.
Hush puppies.
Green fried tomatoes
Yellow crook neck squash, new potatoes and okra cut up into semi thick hunks.
Roll all of that around in some flour and cornbread. Fry it in bacon grease and wow. It's goooood.
fried chicken, gravy and buscuits. Fried chicken livers and gizzards. Momma always got the liver, it was her favorite :)
Chicken friend steak and thick white gravy..
Sweet tea
Cornbread.
Turnip greens. With hunks of the tunips in them.
Pickled peaches.
Chow-chow so hot it would make your eyes water.
Sweet potato pie, with homemade crust made with lard! Mince meat Pie. Lord, it was a wonder I was not a fat kid!!!! :P
Blackberry brandy and muscadine wine. Granny and I always made that for Christmas.
Deer sausage. Granny use to make a sort of hash out of this for breakfast.
And the coffee - who can forget that. I use to get "baby coffee" to "saucer" when I was little. ( saucering is when you pour the hot liquid in the saucer of the cup and sip it )
But when I grew up I got the real deal.. this stuff was like mud. So strong it would eat a metal spoon and even to this day I make mine that way and sometimes forget to warn people when I do make the coffee.
This is a strictly Texas done style that I learned from my grandma. You need an Old fashioned coffee maker, one of thoes tin two part deals. Put the grounds in, in the usual way but add cinnamon, sugar and a touch of pumpkin pie spice. The results are simply spectacular.
AnjuliGabel
09-28-2008, 05:15 PM
Fried green tomato po' boys!
p.s. If anyone is interested I have an enormous word file filled with vegan/vegetarian soul food/southern recipes..
kikidejavu
09-28-2008, 07:45 PM
bread pudding
spaghetti salad,
and the spaghetti salad has to have a shit ton of stuff in it, or its just noodles. italian dressing of course, but lots of cheese, tomatoes, broccoli, shrimp, imitation crab, and anything else you can throw in!
murdock
09-29-2008, 12:56 AM
hush puppies
pecan pie
Vyanka
09-29-2008, 07:59 AM
Now i'm craing it.
The greens, corn bread, mac n cheese, and baked chicken.
Vyanka
09-29-2008, 08:01 AM
While we're at it, can anyone reccomend some good soul food restaurant in NJ or NYC? ;D If you happen to know any. :P
kaluah21
09-29-2008, 10:25 AM
im west indian so i grew up on the caribbean soul food:
ackee and saltfish with fried johnny cakes
oxtail and white rice with saucy lima beans
kingfish with the heads on so i can suck the EYEBALLS!!! mmm...
leg of lamb with rice and peas( everything is with rice and peas) and mint jelly
rum gelatin made from last nights leg of lamb fat, soaked in milk, jamaican overproof rum,nutmeg, sugar and cinnamon since last night. ZOMGZ HEAVEN
curry chicken and rice and peas(kidney beans)
callaloo and saltfifish
fish and dumpling soup with a big piece of yuca
curry goat with rice and boiled green banana
FRIED PLANTAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
arroz amarillo con pollo asado
regular arroz con pollo
FRIED PLANTAINS!!!!!!!!!!
red rice with sofrito and recaito.
cornmeal porridge with sweet milk and hard dough bread for breakfast
toasted hard dough bread with cheese open face
did i mention fried plantains?
all this washed down with a carrot, sorrel or irish moss juice...
chicken and dumplin's but not the american flat dumplins the big fat thick ones as big as ur fist=awesome. man this takes me back...i still make rice and chicken and plantains i pronounce them plantans. but not that gelatin and i used to lurve it.
toasted spice bun with cheese gives me DA BIZNEZ i mean it rocks my socks. im about to go to my local tienda and have a ball!!! maybe pick up a ting and a nutriment too!
oh yea i love homemade baked mac and cheese but it has to have like 4 pound of sharp cheese in it!!! maybe ill make some and take a pic for yall one of these days!
i love baked chicken but i use my goya arsenal.
sweet potatoe pie
banana pudding with nilla wafers
baked custard
i like bread pudding too. im hungry now i must go shopping!!!
greenidlady1
09-29-2008, 03:56 PM
fried chicken
mashed potatoes with lots of butter and cream
green beans
pinto beans and cornbread
fried okra
collard greens
candied yams
creamed sweet corn
biscuits with gravy
slaw
deviled eggs
pound cake
grits and butter - is that soul food?
Crow2
09-30-2008, 11:58 AM
grits are good - but they CAN NOT be lumpy. That's just nasty - plain grits have to have a LOT of butter in them. Cheesy grits are better - something I forgot, Momma use to call it cereal. Rice ( leftovers usually ) cooked until it's squishy. Milk and a heaping teaspoon of sugar.
YUM!
greenidlady1
09-30-2008, 03:18 PM
Grits sure are soul food especially if you get them with a couple eggs over-easy and mix it all together. Then sop it up with a biscuit. Before I stopped eatting pork I use to mix bacon in with it. Now I just use turkey bacon but I don't think that'd be considered soul food.:-\
peanutbutter007
09-30-2008, 08:44 PM
Black Eyed-Peas w/ Hamhocks
KY's (every few years or so--I hate cleaning them)
Cornbread w/ jalapeno's & creamed corn mixed in
Peach Cobbler
Mixed-Greens w/ Hot Sauce
Fried Perch or Whiting
Oven baked Mac/Cheese of course with cheddar, cottage & colby cheeses
Kool-Aid (Flavors "Red" or "Purple")
I could go on...I'm glad Thanksgiving is @ my house this year!!!
Miss Jessica
10-01-2008, 01:12 AM
Ugh, I am obsessed with cooking soul food. Esp. fried chicken, fried catfish, mac & cheese, cornbread, sweet potato pie (which btw, I recently found out is a English thing it dates back to 16th century England) hush puppies the works. I really, really need to stop. Once in awhile is ok, but I go overboard.