Thank you for visiting our directory for southern food dishes :)
On these pages you'll find lots-ah fun food facts and recipes for the most popular dishes in the south.
"The most notable influences of southern dishes, come from British, Scots-Irish, French, Native American, African American , and to a lesser extent Spanish cuisines. Soul food, Creole, Cajun, Lowcountry, and Floribbean are examples of Southern cuisine. In recent history, elements of Southern cuisine have spread north, having an effect on the development of other types of American cuisine."'
• List of Southern soups and stews
"Many items such as squash, tomatoes, corn (and its derivatives, including grits), as well as the practice of deep pit barbecuing were inherited from the southeastern Native American tribes such as the Caddo, Choctaw, and Seminole. Many foods associated with sugar, flour, milk, eggs (many kinds of baking or dairy products such as breads and cheeses) are more associated with Europe. The South's propensity for a full breakfast (as opposed to a Continental one with a simple bread item and drink) is derived from the British fry up, although it was altered substantially. Much of Cajun or Creole cuisine is based on France, and on Spain to a lesser extent. Floribbean is more Spanish-based with obvious Caribbean influences, while Tex-Mex has considerable Mexican and native tribes touches."
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A traditional Southern meal is:
Fried Chicken Dinner: deep fried southern chicken, chicken gravy, Buttermilk Biscuits, mashed potatoes & gravy, field peas, turnip or collard greens, cornbread, and sweet tea. The dessert could be a pie (sweet potato, chess, Pecan Pie (Recipe) and peach (see National Peach Pie Day for Recipe) are traditional southern pies), or a cobbler (peach, blackberry or mixed berry are traditional cobblers). Also fried pies rank high in the south!
"Some other foods commonly associated with the South are mint juleps, country ham, chicken (or country) fried steak, grits, buttermilk biscuits, especially with gravy or sorghum, pimento cheese, pit barbecue, catfish, fried green tomatoes, bread pudding, okra, butter beans, pinto beans, "greens", and black eyed peas (always served on New Years Day). • Traditional New Years Food
A common snack food, in season, is boiled peanuts.
Meat in the South
Fried chicken is among the region's best-known exports, though pork is also an integral a part of the cuisine, with Virginia ham being one renowned form. Barbecue is always understood to be pork, unless specified as some other meat, and there are many regional "cookoff" competitions. A traditional holiday get-together featuring whole hog barbecue is known in the Carolinas as a "pig pickin'." Green beans are often flavored with bacon and salt pork, biscuits served with ham often accompany breakfast, and ham with red-eye gravy or country gravy is a common dinner dish. A bit of fatback is added to many vegetable dishes, especially greens, for flavoring.
Veggies with Meat for seasoning
It is not uncommon for a traditional southern meal to consist of only vegetables with no meat dish at all, although meat or meat products are often used in the cooking process. "Beans and Greens," which consists of either white or brown beans alongside a "mess" of greens has always been popular in most parts of the South. Turnip greens are generally prepared mixed with diced turnips and a piece of fatback. It is often said that Southerners tend to cook down their vegetables a little longer and/or use more seasoning than other Americans, but it often depends on the cook. Srce:wikipedia
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Miscellaneous
• Boiled peanuts
• Peanuts in Coke
• Steen's cane syrup
• Vienna sausages
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Desserts and sweets Cakes
• Coconut cake
• King cake
• Peach shortcake
• Red velvet cake
• Stack Cake
• Butter pecan cake
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Candies
• Squirrel Nut Zippers
• Pecan brittle
• Moon pies
• Goo Goo Cluster
• Pecan Divinity
• Pralines - a specialty of New Orleans
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Pies
• Chess pie
• Key lime pie
• Lemon ice box pie
• Mississippi mud pie
• Pecan pie
• Peanut butter pie
• Sweet potato pie
• Buttermilk pie
• Squash pie
• Pumpkin pie
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• Pimento cheese sandwiches
• Cornbread sunk into a tall glass of milk or buttermilk.
Cookies
• Tea cakes - similar to sugar cookies
• Butter pecan cookies
Puddings
• Bread pudding
• corn pudding
Pastries
• Creme sticks
• Benne seed candy - found primarily in the coastal region of Georgia and South Carolina
• Kentucky Cream Candy - a pulled candy that is made usually during the colder months (40 deg or below) of the year when humidity is low
• Dewberry pie - from the native blackberry ripening in early summer
• Fried pies - peach, apple, cherry and chocolate are most common
• Shoo fly pie - found in parts of the South where Pennsylvania Dutch settled, such as the valley of Virginia
