Tonight's Menu

[omorka]

Southern-Fried Chicken
Mashed Potatoes
Collard Greens
Baking Powder Biscuits
- and -
Fresh Brewed Iced Tea

Man, am I a product of my upbringing or what? The curious thing is that I would never have gotten exactly this meal in any of the households I regularly ate in growing up - my mother never made collards (and her biscuits were these weird loaf-like things, although they were tasty enough), my maternal grandmother never made collards or biscuits, and my paternal grandmother's cook might very well have made any two of the above at any given meal, but never the whole set together - I think she felt that biscuits were breakfast food, and if you had biscuits, potatoes weren't necessary.

Comments

[vinylwolf.livejournal.com]

Now thats what I call a sit down meal!

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

My mother would have made that, except with green beans (Southern style, with bacon) because nobody at our house liked collard greens. Oh, and she and my father were both devotees of Lipton Instant (as was I, growing up). It probably wouldn't have been as good as yours, though.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Lipton Instant is the screaming horror. *shudders*

Oddly enough, no one whose table I ever ate at back home actually put bacon in with the green beans, although we were all aware of the tradition. Ham bones or smoked pork knuckles, sometimes, but never bacon.

(Edited because I can't spell)