Salt pork

[Blizzard of '93]

Grandma made 'sawmill gravy' with the pan drippings from fried fat back, delicious on fried taters with scrambled eggs. If the season for Grandads homegrown 'maters was in a slice or 2 with a plate of that was really good breakfast.

 

[spottedpony]

or how bout some fried ham, good fried taters, with some wild onion mixed in, fresh biscuits and a big pan full of red eye gravy

but it sure dont do the blood pressure, or cholorestoral any good :nono:

 

[tundrawolf]

aahhhh crud spotted pony you almost killed me !daggone drool dripped onto my keyboard and almost lectricuted myself

 

[davy]

Yep I kin see its time to visit relatives in Miss ... fresh cut corn, speckled butterbeans, field peas, cracklin bread, homemade bisquits n sorghym ... emmm boy that sure sounds good too! :hmm: :surrender:

Davy

 

[Blizzard of '93]

you mean you gotta go to Miss. for some real food? what do you eat in Tejas? tacos and such? :blah:

 

[davy]

you mean you gotta go to Miss. for some real food? what do you eat in Tejas? tacos and such? :blah:

I eat it where I find it! Home cookin is good wherever it falls! I am form Texas and dang proud of it! But I also have family in Miss too! :hmm: :rotf:

Davy

 

[Blizzard of '93]

no slight intended just joke. I've camped in Tejas twice at M/C rallys and enjoyed some good beef BBQ brisket and pickled okra. and other chow. :surrender:

 

[windwalker_au]

my mum used to get salt baecon from our butcher, and on sundy mornings she would take the leftover mashed patatos and boild cabbage chope the cabbage and mix it with the mashed patatoes and fry it up in the fat from the salt baecon. she called it bubble and squeek.never have had it as good as mum did it,bless here.
bernie :thumbsup:

 

[davy]

no slight intended just joke. I've camped in Tejas twice at M/C rallys and enjoyed some good beef BBQ brisket and pickled okra. and other chow. :surrender:

Mom's is allus better no matter what! :hmm:

But I tell yas .. ya can have my share of thet okry! No sir ... I ain't eatin nun of that stuff .. biled, pickled, or fried! :surrender:

Davy

 

[Blizzard of '93]

That was my introduction to 'hot picled okra' there, and something I truly enjoy with pinto or other soup beans. here in WNC I haven't been able to locate any store-bought brand that matched what I had in Texas - if memory serves it was 'Pride of Texas' brand. so I make my own in half-gallon jars and buy the okra at the farmers mart when it is in season, I put up 2 gallons, with red cayenne pepper pods in it using sea salt and lots of garlic cloves. always a hit at deer camp when I take a pint jar with me.

 

[greytop13]

Just checked the icebox and our jar of pickled okra is Talk 'O Texas brand. Ain't tried it pickled and heated up yet but like 'em cold with crackers and beer.

My wife made me an okra fan. She grows it in the veggie garden every year and knows how to treat it right, from deep fried to gumbo.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

Don't mean to hijack the thread from salt pork but okra in beef-veggie soup is a tongue-slapper. I use the small 'finger' pods. I freeze 'em when I buy a bunch at farmers mart. then toss 'em in the pot of soup. :thumbsup: