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Post by Clipper on Feb 25, 2021 14:44:53 GMT -5
Made some Johnny cakes for breakfast this morning. They are delicious smeared with real butter and drizzled with syrup or honey. I used Tennessee natural blackberry honey from an Amish farm store near here. I used the recipe below, but substituted buttermilk for the milk. www.allrecipes.com/recipe/7123/johnnycakes/Living here in the South, buttermilk is a staple and we usually have at least a pint on hand for biscuits, regular cornbread to eat with bean soup, and for dredging chicken, cauliflower, and chicken fried steaks that we do in the air fryer. Not long ago Kathy made a batch of home made buttermilk ranch dressing and we put some blue cheese crumbles in it to use on a wedge salad. A huge difference from the bottled stuff. Not something she does routinely, but I saw a recipe on the computer for it, and we eat a lot of salads so she gave it a try. I was fresh and delicious. www.happy-mothering.com/best-buttermilk-ranch-dressing/ |
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Post by BHU on Feb 25, 2021 19:33:03 GMT -5
I've heard of those but never had them. I like pancakes but won't eat them without maple syrup, none of that maple flavored corn syrup stuff sold in stores for me. Ditto on the bottled salad dressing. Is there anything that comes in a bottle that isn't spiked with either soybean oil or corn syrup?
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Post by Clipper on Feb 25, 2021 23:24:06 GMT -5
We do eat bottled salad dressings but I am with you when it comes to syrup. We have Kathy's nephew bring maple syrup that is made by VVS students in the sugar house on Patrick Rd. I love honey so I put honey on my pancakes about half the time and conserve the maple syrup supply a bit. We used to buy maple syrup from the Amish but we haven't been to their store in a while and all the Amish products from their store that we find here in Bristol is Honey and apple butter that they sell from their Auntie Ruth's donut trailers that set up in different locations every day and sell hot fresh glazed donuts and soft pretzels. There is a bottle of Log Cabin in the cupboard that has been there for quite some time and is still half full. Believe it or not I like the Log Cabin on oatmeal with cinnamon, a pat of butter, and no milk. I know. I am weird. What's new, haha.
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Post by kit on Feb 26, 2021 15:05:35 GMT -5
I made the Johnny Cakes for lunch. The flavor was okay but I didn't care for the texture or the way they broke apart. I much prefer some type of wheat flour, leavening to make them fluffy, and an egg to hold them together (I don't care for buttermilk so regular milk is fine). I suppose if I lived out in the middle of no-damn-where the fewer ingredients would be easier to store, but at my age I'm a bit spoiled and like regular pancakes made the traditional way.
I remember when Log Cabin syrup contained "2% Real Maple Syrup". Sadly, not any more. I don't mind paying the higher price for 100% maple syrup for those special breakfasts like pancakes, French toast, or stoetz, but for an average Bb breakfast 'pancake syrup' does okay.
Clipper, there's nothing weird about the way you like your oatmeal. It may be different from how someone else likes theirs, but any way you like it is fine. You're the one eating it. I've liked butter, syrup, salt, and pepper on my French toast ever since I was a little squirt (people think I'm weird, too, but that's okay).
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Post by Clipper on Feb 26, 2021 19:48:41 GMT -5
They are basically a cornbread recipe fried on a griddle instead of baked in the oven in a cake pan or cast iron skillet. I happen to like it but I can see where you find it dry. Cornbread does tend to be dry in most cases. Cornmeal doesn't yield a moist and fluffy texture. Corn muffins are much more moist and we eat them occasionally also. There is probably not many Southern folk's pantries that don't have a bag of yellow corn meal in them.
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Post by artsyone on Mar 1, 2021 11:19:17 GMT -5
I learned to love Southern cooking when I lived down South, but it was fattening. However, I was not successful at learning how to cook it. Once I had one of the women who worked with me offer me some Chittlins for lunch. I couldn't even chew them. They all had a good laugh on me, Miss Northener, come down here to see some sunshine. I used to eat a lot at Morrison's. Today I am making sweet Texas onion soup, herbed rice and a gelatin salad.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 1, 2021 12:05:22 GMT -5
Was Morrison's in Raleigh? We ate at a Morrison's in Raleigh once when visiting a friend who had cancer and was in Duke Medical Center for treatment. The soul food was pretty good but I didn't try any chittlins. I see them in tubs in the meat department in the market, but they look pretty nasty to me. I have never been around when anyone cooked them but i hear that they stink when you are cooking them. Hmmm. Intestines that smell bad when cooking? Hmmm. I wonder why a pigs bowels would stink when cooking. NOPE! not for me. We have a little family owned soul food place here called Eatz. A young black couple runs it and the food is excellent. My favorite there is chicken fried steak or fried chicken livers, a baked sweet potato, and collards cooked with a ham hock.
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Post by BHU on Mar 1, 2021 13:48:39 GMT -5
Was Morrison's in Raleigh? We ate at a Morrison's in Raleigh once when visiting a friend who had cancer and was in Duke Medical Center for treatment. The soul food was pretty good but I didn't try any chittlins. I see them in tubs in the meat department in the market, but they look pretty nasty to me. I have never been around when anyone cooked them but i hear that they stink when you are cooking them. Hmmm. Intestines that smell bad when cooking? Hmmm. I wonder why a pigs bowels would stink when cooking. NOPE! not for me. We have a little family owned soul food place here called Eatz. A young black couple runs it and the food is excellent. My favorite there is chicken fried steak or fried chicken livers, a baked sweet potato, and collards cooked with a ham hock. Ever had tripe? I had it once. And once only, thank you. Lol |
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Post by artsyone on Mar 1, 2021 15:58:22 GMT -5
There are Morrison's all over Florida. Yes, I have had tripe. It was a staple in the neighborhood I grew up in in East Utica and I have had it at Pelleterie Joe's. Kind of like chewing an an old flip flop. Funny Florida Chinese restaurant story: there was this place in downtown Daytona Beach that was filthy, but the food was great and cheap. They used to serve it under those metal domes when they brought it to the table, the way that the old Chinese places used to do. One day I lifted the dome on my pork fried rice and there on the edge was a giant roach, a kitchen roach, not a palmetto bug. I replaced the dome and called the waitress. She came, assesed the situation by eyeballing the roach, that was now crawling onto the table. "Oh, that's just a roach honey!" and she slapped it onto the floor and stepped on it. I did get new food and I did continue to eat there, because it was such a Florida thing, a roach in your food. Not a problem to her. Or me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2021 16:04:32 GMT -5
Tripe I love and haven't had that in many years. A friend of the family made the best tasting tripe I have ever had and I wish I had his recipe. Tripe was very tender in small pieces along with cubed boiled potato and small cubed carrot all in a light tomato sauce.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 1, 2021 16:06:37 GMT -5
I love tripe if it is cooked the right way. I used to get it at Pelliterri Joes. (sp) Also in Rome at Vinci's on Dominick St. His wife made it cooked until tender and served in a broth. Also I love menudo Mexican tripe soup. Spicy and good.
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Post by BHU on Mar 1, 2021 17:16:23 GMT -5
When I had it many years ago it wasen't cooked correctly & I never tried it again. I know it's a multi step process to prepare it.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 1, 2021 19:39:50 GMT -5
We stopped at Aldi's after we went to dinner tonight for a couple of things and I bought a cornbread mix that is suppose to have a hint of honey added and for a sweeter cornbread they suggest adding a 1/2 cup of white sugar to the mix. It sounds like it will make great muffins. If it is good I will buy it again for Johnny cakes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2021 20:16:28 GMT -5
I never had Johnny Cake and I do not like Corn Bread. I do like Bran Muffins but no one sells them anymore. When I volunteered at Rescue Mission some store would always give boxes of Bran Muffins. I don't like baking uses to much electricity. They do help with a great bowel evacuation.
Oh great the wind gusts are making the door to the smoke shack HUD built for smokers who never use it. Heard it cost near $30,000. Maybe a security person whenever one gets here will close and lock the door. I doubt it......
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Post by artsyone on Mar 1, 2021 20:24:35 GMT -5
I made cornbread today, with sugar and some flakes of hot pepper. It came out great. Also made sweet and creamy Texas onion soup. Texas onions are flat and quite sweet. You can eat 'em like apples if that's your thing. I buy them at YBG: 5 lbs for $2.00. I also made Perfection gelatin salad and rice pilaf. I never cook strictly Irish food: I don't like it. Eating tripe is like chewing on an old sandle if it's not done right.
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