My Grandmother's chocolate or lemon pie. No one else's comes close. Let's see, I also love her homemade apple butter, heaven on a biscuit.
I make my Grandma's homemade lemon meringue pie....goood lawd talk about slappin your mama.....woohooo....
I may have to re-think not attending our reunion next weekend. Her pie is almost worth driving 4 hours for, even with gas at $4 a gallon. To Grandmother's everywhere! :cheers:
My Grandma made the best every chicken and dumplings!!! OMG.....everytime I spent the night she would make them for me and then biscuits and gravy in the morning! Sigh......
I got a few recipes from my Grandma after she died. None of them ever tasted as good as when she made it. I talked to me Mom about it and she told me that my Gandma always left off an ingedient from the list. Once I found that out, I started looking again at the recipes and figured out what was missing (in most of them) and was able to finally get the taste I remember so well.
Being as southern as I am, I've never heard of this, course again my family were all country and never had hotdogs, except when they went to town on Saturday's to shop (and often then as they saved their money for the movie). BTW....my dad's family is orginially from Angier and he grew up in that area during the 50's, and mom's family has always been from the 50/1010/old stage rd. area and were some of the original members of Holland's Church. So I'm all about some true southern country cooking. Craig
Some of it has to do with ingredients used (real lard vs. shorting such as Crisco). some of it has to with the vehicles in which she cooked. There's alot of love (Emeril's term for taste) to be had in old many generations seasoned cast iron that you won't find in today's cookware. Craig
Shepard's Pie, the way my mama makes it! (don't know if it's southern since she's a yankee but it sure is comforting) A crockpot full of beef stew in the cold winter!
oh oh oh, my Granny's homemade vegetable soup with chicken - she called it soup but it was more like stew and so full of chicken that she shredded. My mom could never reproduce it but i come closer than anyone i know - everything has to be fresh (cept my chicken ain't as fresh as hers' was though:lol and cooked all day - yummm, great memories from spending time on the farm with her and my granddad.
Nothing Southern about a traditional shepard's pie.......unless you are from Southern England. :mrgreen: Craig
A big 'ol bowl of lima beans with cornbread and onions. Good gawd I'd crawl 10 miles for that meal! In fact, I'm going to mama's tomorrow at lunch for a big bowl (or 2). Mmmmmm.
