I get to keep my Old Redneck Southern Lady card for another year...

[SherryT]

Is this not a thing of beauty?

Supper (with a surprise in the cornbread...cracklin's)...

There...the obligatory southern New Year's Day supper!

As you were!

 

[halleoneagain]

Why yes, it is a thing of beauty. What is in the jar?

 

[SherryT]

Why yes, it is a thing of beauty. What is in the jar?

"pepper sauce"...it's cayennes with boiling vinegar/salt poured over, capped off, and stuck in the fridge once it cools.

Tastes great sprinkled over greens...been eating it all my life.

 

[6GRILLZNTN]

My Grandma used to make the BEST cracklin' cornbread. It's been years since I've had it. That's got to change. That plate looks great Sherry. I also keep pepper sauce at hand in the fridge, except I use Tobasco peppers. You can't have greens, or beans without it. Great job, and Happy New Year!

 

[SherryT]

My Grandma used to make the BEST cracklin' cornbread. It's been years since I've had it. That's got to change. That plate looks great Sherry. I also keep pepper sauce at hand in the fridge, except I use Tobasco peppers. You can't have greens, or beans without it. Great job, and Happy New Year!

The problem is that it's getting harder and harder to find decent cracklin's (at least around here, anyway!).

Happy New Year to you and yours as well, Dave!

 

[Gonna Smoke]

The problem is that it's getting harder and harder to find decent cracklin's (at least around here, anyway!).

I haven't seen them in a store in a LONG time. Best cracklins I've found were when a friend butchered a hog and they made them, but that's only 2-3 times a year...

 

[tbern]

looks very good, happy new year to you!

 

[SmokyMose]

Nice! I made ham & beans with cornbread, too, but no match for yours!!
If you have any Mexican groceries around (There are plenty around here, for sure.),
they usually have cracklins....

 

[SherryT]

looks very good, happy new year to you!

To you as well, tbern!

 

[SherryT]

I haven't seen them in a store in a LONG time. Best cracklins I've found were when a friend butchered a hog and they made them, but that's only 2-3 times a year...

My GGM would make them in a HUGE cast iron pot in the back yard (seriously huge...it took two men to move it!).

They were nice, chunky cracklin's, too...not this "cracklin' dust" that seems to all that's available in the stores nowadays (and it's hard to find even that anymore!).

Sigh...

 

[tx smoker]

Wow!! That looks superb and true down-home cooking. With food like that, you could be my redneck southern girl all year

Robert

 

[HalfSmoked]

Awe a meal of glory.
Grandmom used to put cracklings in biscuits

Warren

 

[SherryT]

Awe a meal of glory.
Grandmom used to put cracklings in biscuits

Warren

OK...you got me on that one! In biscuits???

GOTTA try it!!!!!

 

[SmokyMose]

OK...you got me on that one! In biscuits???

GOTTA try it!!!!!

I guess you could think of it as a biscuit with a prize inside....
If you do it, I would love to see your recipe. The best biscuits I've had were while working in the south, and I have a feeling you make a kick butt biscuit :-)

 

[6GRILLZNTN]

I grew up on my Mamaw's, Grandma's, and Mom's homemade biscuits. I can make them, but I only do so about once a year. My new recipe is as follows:

1)Go to grocery store
2)Grab a bag of frozen Mary B's biscuits
3)Follow instructions on bag.

These things are surprisingly good, and super easy.

 

[SherryT]

I grew up on my Mamaw's, Grandma's, and Mom's homemade biscuits. I can make them, but I only do so about once a year. My new recipe is as follows:

1)Go to grocery store
2)Grab a bag of frozen Mary B's biscuits
3)Follow instructions on bag.

These things are surprisingly good, and super easy.
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Seriously, though...I've been known to buy a bag or two of those and you're right...not too bad.

 

[SherryT]

I guess you could think of it as a biscuit with a prize inside....
If you do it, I would love to see your recipe. The best biscuits I've had were while working in the south, and I have a feeling you make a kick butt biscuit :-)

Oh, trust me...I'll be trying this for sure!

As for my own, I think I do alright, but it's a DEAD SIMPLE recipe...White Lily self-rising flour, ice-cold buttermilk (that would be thick, creamy CULTURED buttermilk, BTW), ice-cold lard, and worked by hand (no spoons, forks, or pastry cutters...by hand).

That's how I learned.

 

[6GRILLZNTN]

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Seriously, though...I've been known to buy a bag or two of those and you're right...not too bad.

I still make homemade sausage gravy though. I REFUSE to buy the stuff in the pouch.

 

[Kvgsqtii]

Oh, trust me...I'll be trying this for sure!

As for my own, I think I do alright, but it's a DEAD SIMPLE recipe...White Lily self-rising flour, ice-cold buttermilk (that would be thick, creamy CULTURED buttermilk, BTW), ice-cold lard, and worked by hand (no spoons, forks, or pastry cutters...by hand).

That's how I learned.

The recipe on the White Lily bag makes the best biscuits. I was turned onto it by an old timer out here who runs a grist mill down the road.

 

[DRKsmoking]

Looks good and I really like a good cornbread ....

But heard of cracklin but have not really had any, have to see if it is
something I can make up here in the north country

David