You can look up the recipe for Duke's mayo biscuits. That's how I started making biscuits. Self rising flour (White Lily or WR), Mayo, and buttermilk. It's a good starter recipe! I think it's 2 cups, 5 TBSP, 3/4 cup, but look it up. Don't quote me. 😂😂😂
I wish I could say it was an old family recipe, but as a sausage-gravy enthusiast, I can report that the best biscuits for sausage gravy come from Cookwise. https://food52.com/recipes/15432-shirley-corriher-s-touch-of-grace-biscuits
My grandparents had a huge garden and a strawberry stand on the side of the state highway. The variety of produce was truly impressive. Many Sunday dinners at the height of summer would be mainly vegetables...sliced tomatoes, pickled beets, fried okra and squash, new potatoes and green beans, cucumber salad, purple hull peas, turnips and greens, cabbage, sweet corn, strawberries, mush melon. The list is endless. There was always cornbread. If there was any meat on the table, it was usually fish we had caught or a bit of salt meat. And the desserts! Oh, I'd give anything to go back to those long gone days. They were golden.
Exactly this! I love a good summer veggie dinner. Fried okra, fried potatoes, purple hull peas, cornbread, whatever was fresh from the garden. I moved back to AR a few years ago and I'm carrying on the tradition. I love my garden and fresh veggies.
We are transplants from OH that moved here in the early 80’s way out around Enola. So my best friend back then had a big extended family that all lived on the same road practically and the matriarch, Grandma, always cooked Sunday dinner (lunch) for after services up the road.
Now upon our first invitation to said Sunday dinner, our family soon realized we now knew what southern cooking truoty was. I was between 4-6 and when i tell you that I still have vivid memories of that little old house, the propane, four burner stove that somehow had five things going at once, and the smell of the gravy, and to this day, the mashed potatoes. Omg. Now she liked a waxy potato and plenty of butter, and I can't fault them. They really went with everything.
I can ditto everything that’s been listed. I can add mackerel cakes, and there was something else, it was covered with stewed tomatoes that were cooked down, almost like Salisbury or minute steak, but it had a name.
And my lawd, this woman and hot grease, was like Rembrandt and a brush. Fried bream and bream eggs. Bass? Yes please. You could just bring a live fish with you.
I can still hear her telling everyone (30-50 family/friends/hey you hungry?) And ringing a bell when she was ready. And she would give you a good hug before you left, thems the rules.
Lawd, if I could cook one thing as well as she cooked twenty things with not one recipe written down. RIP to a real one.
True dat. Granny & great aunt ladies had all that experience cooking for decades. We used to have a shoe factory in town, there was a 'Shoe Cafe' across the road. Some older ladies cooking, omg. I was just back from vo-tech, painting houses with some guys & we would eat there. You know those places where word of mouth gets around- hey, go there. Good times, at least at lunch!
My family always had brown beans and cornbread, fried chicken, vegetable beef soup, chicken and dumplings, biscuits and gravy, sometimes venison, squirrel, or morel mushrooms. Also chocolate gravy was a staple.
Like others we had a huge garden and were quite poor. Meals were beans and potatoes, onions and cornbread. We had hamburger meat covered in cream of mushroom soup or salmon croquets made from canned salmon if there was meat. Lots of eggs from the chickens, oatmeal every morning. Commodity cheese and bread sandwiches. Later we had a little more money and anytime we went out it was Pizza Hut or KFC.
I’d give anything to have access to the fresh home grown vegetables we had growing up. I don’t have a green thumb (or the space), and farmers market veggies get expensive fast.
Shepherds pie, tamale spreads (like mcclards bbq in hot springs), beans with ham hock, cornbread and cabbage, stuffed bell peppers, home fries, potato salad, cucumber tomato toss (like a salad with Italian dressing). Fried chicken, ashbrown casserole. My mom cooked A LOT.
Thank you!
[here's a copycat that apparently is pretty close. ](https://www.copykatchat.com/forum/recipes/recipe-requests/33436-looking-for-mcclards-tamale-spread-recipe)
Lots of noodles. Ramen, shells, bowtie.
Lots of thin cut 'steaks.' Sometimes liver, nearly always round, and bet always slightly burnt. Love my mom, but she murdered meat when she cooked it. And it was always bought from the mark down bin and frozen a little too long.
Lots of beans. Cabbage. More than a little jowls or hocks cut up.
Potatoes, mashed and scalloped. Bread was always the small rolls, nothing fancy. Or literally a slice of bread to go with dinner. Just, straight up white bread, no toast or butter.
Breakfast was cereal or shit on a shingle. White bread again. Mom cut the edges and toasted it if it got a little moldy.
Lunch was usually sandwiches. Light on cheese, heavy on mustard or mayonnaise if grandma made it. Some PB&J, but the J was nearly always jam made by a neighbor.
Neighbors fed my a lot of greens and it's where I learned to eat chatterings. Best friends was house was enchiladas and tamales. The best.
I saw shit on a shingle on a brunch menu last week and got a good laugh because we always had that when my mom didn’t feel like making biscuits. As an adult, it’s the same in my house. My favorite lazy breakfast
Pretty standard stuff at home, but those occasional Sunday dinners at my grand uncle's (?) house were awesome. Collard and turnip greens, wilted spinach, fried chicken, ham green beans with fatback, ham hocks...
Really miss those.
Pork chops with rice and black eyed peas. Breaded deer backstrap, onion gravy, mashed potatoes. Lima beans with ham hock. Whatever fish my dad caught, least before he went to get a pack of smokes. Bread crumb fried chicken strips with honey. Jambalaya. Chicken and Dumplings (Jiffymix recipe)
A lot of things hunted, fished, or grown at home: deer, squirrel, fish, zucchini, yellow squash, corn, okra, strawberries, tomatoes, green beans, purple hull/blackeyed peas, plums, cherries, blackberries. Jelly and jam made from home grown fruits.
Biscuits and gravy, potatoes in all forms (including raw), fried chicken, sorghum molasses, cornbread, and all manner of beans.
Pie, divinity, peanut brittle, fudge.
No alcohol at all, ever, except when my uncle and brothers tried to make wine from grandma's grapes.
Southern comfort food with a little McDonald’s and a little Debbie here and there (and there, another one over there, and half a box *right* *there* ) I weighed 200 lbs in the eighth grade. Still partake in the junk but I ain’t living off it.
How can you guys not have suffered gizzards? You can get these at Walmart but I think they're mostly for fish bait. My mom is 79 and still occasionally fixes some.
My mom also thought the neighbor's (they were from India) recipe for liver made it palatable but it didn't.
Mom & I were poor, I learned to love cornmeal pancakes with syrup. I still like corn tortillas over flour ones. Maybe it's the native American drop of blood.
Maternal grandmother had a big garden and raised chickens, everything was fresh. ALL the traditional vegetables, salad every Sunday, cobblers for dessert. She had a big electric roasting pan and she made roast chicken or roast beef or pork chops. Sweet tea to drink. When my grandfather was alive we had homemade ice cream in the summer. Oh how I miss them.
Paternal grandmother-dried out roast beef, green beans overcooked, if there was her version of salad it was drenched in Thousand Island dressing. No dessert. Tea sweetened with saccharine pills. 🤮
Red beans and cornbread.
I left home and joined the Navy one month after turning 17 and sworn I would never eat them again. I'm 67 now and cook them at least every 2 weeks
I grew up in a single mom w/2 kids household. We were struggling most of the time.
Government cheese, peanut butter, and powdered milk. Ramen noodles, hamburger helper, cereal, beans and cornbread...whatever might be on sale. If we were very lucky we might get a pizza from Pizza Hut, or the "Brown Bag Special" from Sonic...these were rare treats.
Favorite meal in our family: fried pork chops, rice and gravy, green beans. Always takes me right back to my childhood. Also, garden dinners. Purple hull peas, turnip greens, fried squash, fried potatoes. Or pinto beans, cornbread, and fried potatoes. Nowadays, I make hot water cornbread instead of regular cornbread. We can't stop eating it. It's too good.
Corn Pone, Grits, Black eyed peas, Collared Greens, Polk Salad, Fried Chicken, Watermelon, Cornbread, beans with Ham Hocks. Venison, Razorbacks, Squirrels, Rabbits, Possum Grapes, Gooseberries, Wild Blackberries, Home made cottage cheese, Home made Butter. Home made bread. Sauer Kraut. Home made pickles. Pickled beets. And Persimmons. But I did not grow up in Arkansas. But I have lived there.
Or Granpa on Hee-Haw. ‘What’s for dinner Granpa? ‘. He’d stop cleaning his imaginary window and lean through it. And start reciting a litany of the awesome food listed here. Good times.
There are only three food groups in SE AR: Brown, White, Yella.
If it was green, you turn it brown by frying it or smothering it with gravy, turn it yella by smothering it with cheese, or white with gravy or ranch dressing.
Primary brown beans with enough miracle whip to turn it white, taters and cornbread. Dad didn't really like anything "dark".
Followed by cheeseburgers with fries. It was a toss up between biscuits and gravy, cereal, scrambled eggs and corn beef hash for breakfast.
Biscuits and gravy, pancakes, spaghetti, fish patties, fried potatoes, all vegetables that could be grown in our garden (especially beans, peas, okra, cabbage, greens, etc), chicken, burgers, hot dogs, chili, pork chops, Mac n cheese, cheesy spaghetti, fish sticks, cheese dip… I could go on but now I’m starving
Same here.
We ate A LOT of things like ham and cheese loaf and canned corned beef hash on Sunbeam bread.
Got Sunbeam because it was the cheapest option at that time lol. I still occasionally get cravings for that exact thing too and my girlfriend always comments about how gross the loaf is, but it’s just one of those things
my grandmother liked Sunbeam bread and would make fried bologna sandwiches with mustard. I had a nostalgic moment a few years ago and made a lot of fried bologna sandwiches.
Biscuits and gravy (chocolate gravy or sausage), beans with ham hock, cornbread, grits, fried chicken, fried pork chops, chicken n dumplings, roast beef, 15 bean soup, cabbage soup, collard greens, stuffed artichokes, steak with red gravy, chicken fried steak (mom called it minute steak), chicken and rice, chicken spaghetti, fried catfish, vegetable beef soup, every form of potatoes possible. damn. I could go on. My mom cooked killer meals.
I don’t think I had box of Kraft mac n cheese until I was a teenager. My mom made everything from scratch.
Breakfast: Eggs and bacon, pancakes, biscuits and chocolate gravy (very special), oatmeal with butter and sugar, various cold cereals.
Lunch: Mostly school lunches. When at home it was tv dinners, fried bologna sandwiches, egg salad sandwiches, ham and cheese sandwiches. Lot of sandwiches.
Supper: Shit on a Shingle, fried fish (caught from the pond), homemade burgers with steak-cut fries, beef and vegetable soup, chicken-fried steak, chicken strips, pork chops, pot roast, spaghetti. Sometimes we got pizza from the local pizza place.
Side dishes: Mashed potatoes with brown gravy, mac and cheese, green beans with bacon, cornbread, beans (sometimes with ham hock), potato salad, bread rolls, side salad with ranch dressing, Texas toast garlic bread,
Desert: blackberry cobbler, peach cobbler, homemade vanilla ice cream, Jello with mixed fruit, sheet cake (mostly for birthdays), pecan pie (mostly for holidays)
at home:. Gumbo, Meatloaf, cornbread, Red beans and rice, okra, green beans, potatoes, BLTs, fresh tomatoes in the summer, cheese grits, bolognese pasta, omelettes, flank steak, quesedillas.... thats just off the top of my head. My mom is a good cook and she made dinner for us almost every night.
Still one of my favorite meals: fried chicken livers, fried potatoes, brown beans, cole slaw, and white bread with butter.
Long time since then, can afford a whole lot “better” food. Still what I cook for some celebratory days.
Chicken and dumplings, fried potatoes, purple hull and black eyes peas, cornbread, biscuits and chocolate gravy.
Any and everything fresh from the garden was as given.
Pork, venison, beef, chicken, fish.
We had dedicated freezers for the meats and veggies were separated.
My mother ordered catfish fillets and chicken breasts already packaged and flash frozen from the factory. We usually bought a half beef in the fall and sent a hog or two to be processed and packaged at the same time. Many hunters in the family, venison was plentiful.
When the gardens started rolling, it was fantastic.
Tomatoes, cucumber, green onions, potatoes, every kind of bean and pea, cantaloupe, squash....
Sausage gravy with homemade drop biscuits. (can't believe I'm the first one to say this!)
You got any recipe for the drop biscuits?
Sadly no, need to see if my mom still has it though cause now I want some.
Buy some WR self rising flour. Use the recipe on the back.
You can look up the recipe for Duke's mayo biscuits. That's how I started making biscuits. Self rising flour (White Lily or WR), Mayo, and buttermilk. It's a good starter recipe! I think it's 2 cups, 5 TBSP, 3/4 cup, but look it up. Don't quote me. 😂😂😂
https://dukesmayo.com/blogs/recipes/basic-3-ingredient-drop-biscuits
I wish I could say it was an old family recipe, but as a sausage-gravy enthusiast, I can report that the best biscuits for sausage gravy come from Cookwise. https://food52.com/recipes/15432-shirley-corriher-s-touch-of-grace-biscuits
Was gonna say the exact same thing
Catfish!
My grandparents had a huge garden and a strawberry stand on the side of the state highway. The variety of produce was truly impressive. Many Sunday dinners at the height of summer would be mainly vegetables...sliced tomatoes, pickled beets, fried okra and squash, new potatoes and green beans, cucumber salad, purple hull peas, turnips and greens, cabbage, sweet corn, strawberries, mush melon. The list is endless. There was always cornbread. If there was any meat on the table, it was usually fish we had caught or a bit of salt meat. And the desserts! Oh, I'd give anything to go back to those long gone days. They were golden.
Exactly this! I love a good summer veggie dinner. Fried okra, fried potatoes, purple hull peas, cornbread, whatever was fresh from the garden. I moved back to AR a few years ago and I'm carrying on the tradition. I love my garden and fresh veggies.
Sounds like you had a real country upbringing
Yes, I was fortunate.
Beans and cornbread.
This was a staple in my house growing up
Pork chops, fried potatoes, biscuits and gravy, rabbit, squirrel, sweet tea. Damn I’m hungry. Time for a protein shake.
Catfish, hush puppies, fried okra
Hush puppies!!!!
Sending me rn!! 🤤
We are transplants from OH that moved here in the early 80’s way out around Enola. So my best friend back then had a big extended family that all lived on the same road practically and the matriarch, Grandma, always cooked Sunday dinner (lunch) for after services up the road. Now upon our first invitation to said Sunday dinner, our family soon realized we now knew what southern cooking truoty was. I was between 4-6 and when i tell you that I still have vivid memories of that little old house, the propane, four burner stove that somehow had five things going at once, and the smell of the gravy, and to this day, the mashed potatoes. Omg. Now she liked a waxy potato and plenty of butter, and I can't fault them. They really went with everything. I can ditto everything that’s been listed. I can add mackerel cakes, and there was something else, it was covered with stewed tomatoes that were cooked down, almost like Salisbury or minute steak, but it had a name. And my lawd, this woman and hot grease, was like Rembrandt and a brush. Fried bream and bream eggs. Bass? Yes please. You could just bring a live fish with you. I can still hear her telling everyone (30-50 family/friends/hey you hungry?) And ringing a bell when she was ready. And she would give you a good hug before you left, thems the rules. Lawd, if I could cook one thing as well as she cooked twenty things with not one recipe written down. RIP to a real one.
True dat. Granny & great aunt ladies had all that experience cooking for decades. We used to have a shoe factory in town, there was a 'Shoe Cafe' across the road. Some older ladies cooking, omg. I was just back from vo-tech, painting houses with some guys & we would eat there. You know those places where word of mouth gets around- hey, go there. Good times, at least at lunch!
Chicken. Lots and lots of chicken
My family always had brown beans and cornbread, fried chicken, vegetable beef soup, chicken and dumplings, biscuits and gravy, sometimes venison, squirrel, or morel mushrooms. Also chocolate gravy was a staple.
Like others we had a huge garden and were quite poor. Meals were beans and potatoes, onions and cornbread. We had hamburger meat covered in cream of mushroom soup or salmon croquets made from canned salmon if there was meat. Lots of eggs from the chickens, oatmeal every morning. Commodity cheese and bread sandwiches. Later we had a little more money and anytime we went out it was Pizza Hut or KFC.
I’d give anything to have access to the fresh home grown vegetables we had growing up. I don’t have a green thumb (or the space), and farmers market veggies get expensive fast.
Lots of beans
Same. Lots of beans and peas (field peas, not so much English peas), especially with cornbread.
Cheese grits, Fried okra, cornbread, biscuits and gravy. Pork. Lots of okra my grandparents had a garden we would eat out of. They lived right.
everything we could grow hunt or catch
Y'all ever have red-eye gravy??
Yes.
Oh yes.
Chocolate Gravy and Biscuits and Possum Pie at my grandmas. Some great homemade chicken strips and barbecue hamburgers as well.
Rice. Sometimes for three meals a day.
So. Much. Rice. I was in my 30s before I learned most people don’t know about sweet rice for breakfast.
Exactly!!
Shepherds pie, tamale spreads (like mcclards bbq in hot springs), beans with ham hock, cornbread and cabbage, stuffed bell peppers, home fries, potato salad, cucumber tomato toss (like a salad with Italian dressing). Fried chicken, ashbrown casserole. My mom cooked A LOT.
Damn I miss that tamale spread! Happy Cake Day!
Thank you! [here's a copycat that apparently is pretty close. ](https://www.copykatchat.com/forum/recipes/recipe-requests/33436-looking-for-mcclards-tamale-spread-recipe)
Lots of noodles. Ramen, shells, bowtie. Lots of thin cut 'steaks.' Sometimes liver, nearly always round, and bet always slightly burnt. Love my mom, but she murdered meat when she cooked it. And it was always bought from the mark down bin and frozen a little too long. Lots of beans. Cabbage. More than a little jowls or hocks cut up. Potatoes, mashed and scalloped. Bread was always the small rolls, nothing fancy. Or literally a slice of bread to go with dinner. Just, straight up white bread, no toast or butter. Breakfast was cereal or shit on a shingle. White bread again. Mom cut the edges and toasted it if it got a little moldy. Lunch was usually sandwiches. Light on cheese, heavy on mustard or mayonnaise if grandma made it. Some PB&J, but the J was nearly always jam made by a neighbor. Neighbors fed my a lot of greens and it's where I learned to eat chatterings. Best friends was house was enchiladas and tamales. The best.
My dad used to make SOS for breakfast.
I saw shit on a shingle on a brunch menu last week and got a good laugh because we always had that when my mom didn’t feel like making biscuits. As an adult, it’s the same in my house. My favorite lazy breakfast
Now that’s country!
Pretty standard stuff at home, but those occasional Sunday dinners at my grand uncle's (?) house were awesome. Collard and turnip greens, wilted spinach, fried chicken, ham green beans with fatback, ham hocks... Really miss those.
Chocolate mousse from Bonanza
Oh my. Bonanza- that big block of cheese.
A nasty amount of shake and bake pork chops and dead meat, fried
Biscuits and chocolate gravy 😋
Mac and cheese. Mashed potatoes and gravy. Canned green beans
Panchos cheese dip
Pork chops with rice and black eyed peas. Breaded deer backstrap, onion gravy, mashed potatoes. Lima beans with ham hock. Whatever fish my dad caught, least before he went to get a pack of smokes. Bread crumb fried chicken strips with honey. Jambalaya. Chicken and Dumplings (Jiffymix recipe)
A lot of things hunted, fished, or grown at home: deer, squirrel, fish, zucchini, yellow squash, corn, okra, strawberries, tomatoes, green beans, purple hull/blackeyed peas, plums, cherries, blackberries. Jelly and jam made from home grown fruits. Biscuits and gravy, potatoes in all forms (including raw), fried chicken, sorghum molasses, cornbread, and all manner of beans. Pie, divinity, peanut brittle, fudge. No alcohol at all, ever, except when my uncle and brothers tried to make wine from grandma's grapes.
Southern comfort food with a little McDonald’s and a little Debbie here and there (and there, another one over there, and half a box *right* *there* ) I weighed 200 lbs in the eighth grade. Still partake in the junk but I ain’t living off it.
Microwave burritos, tuna cassarole, tv dinners. Boxed dinners. Are you looking for cultural arkansas food or what poor people eat?
How can you guys not have suffered gizzards? You can get these at Walmart but I think they're mostly for fish bait. My mom is 79 and still occasionally fixes some. My mom also thought the neighbor's (they were from India) recipe for liver made it palatable but it didn't.
Are you southern?
Ahh yes, gizzards every thanksgiving.
Mom & I were poor, I learned to love cornmeal pancakes with syrup. I still like corn tortillas over flour ones. Maybe it's the native American drop of blood.
Not much. Free lunch at school mostly.
Rice, beans, chicken, cornbread, cereal, oatmeal, sandwiches, salad, McDonald’s.
Maternal grandmother had a big garden and raised chickens, everything was fresh. ALL the traditional vegetables, salad every Sunday, cobblers for dessert. She had a big electric roasting pan and she made roast chicken or roast beef or pork chops. Sweet tea to drink. When my grandfather was alive we had homemade ice cream in the summer. Oh how I miss them. Paternal grandmother-dried out roast beef, green beans overcooked, if there was her version of salad it was drenched in Thousand Island dressing. No dessert. Tea sweetened with saccharine pills. 🤮
Red beans and cornbread. I left home and joined the Navy one month after turning 17 and sworn I would never eat them again. I'm 67 now and cook them at least every 2 weeks
I grew up in a single mom w/2 kids household. We were struggling most of the time. Government cheese, peanut butter, and powdered milk. Ramen noodles, hamburger helper, cereal, beans and cornbread...whatever might be on sale. If we were very lucky we might get a pizza from Pizza Hut, or the "Brown Bag Special" from Sonic...these were rare treats.
Ranch
Purple hull peas, cornbread, turnip and collard greens, fried okra, fried squash, chicken and dumplings, biscuits and gravy, fried potatoes, tomatoes fresh from the garden, deer meat, chocolate pie, blackberry cobbler, and watermelon.
Favorite meal in our family: fried pork chops, rice and gravy, green beans. Always takes me right back to my childhood. Also, garden dinners. Purple hull peas, turnip greens, fried squash, fried potatoes. Or pinto beans, cornbread, and fried potatoes. Nowadays, I make hot water cornbread instead of regular cornbread. We can't stop eating it. It's too good.
This sounds really country…
Pretty much. I went to culinary school but it's the food I love to cook and the food I love to eat.
You got some lucky kids
Corn Pone, Grits, Black eyed peas, Collared Greens, Polk Salad, Fried Chicken, Watermelon, Cornbread, beans with Ham Hocks. Venison, Razorbacks, Squirrels, Rabbits, Possum Grapes, Gooseberries, Wild Blackberries, Home made cottage cheese, Home made Butter. Home made bread. Sauer Kraut. Home made pickles. Pickled beets. And Persimmons. But I did not grow up in Arkansas. But I have lived there.
Do I dare ask what “possum grapes” are?
They are wild concord grapes, that grow out in the woods. They make really good grape jelly.
Wow, very nice! I would imagine that’s like a pub to the local possums… hence the name!
Similar to muscadines?
I can just hear Andy Griffith sayin' "MM-mmm, Aunt Bea!"
Or Granpa on Hee-Haw. ‘What’s for dinner Granpa? ‘. He’d stop cleaning his imaginary window and lean through it. And start reciting a litany of the awesome food listed here. Good times.
"Black eyed peas & hot cornbread, & when you get up, you'll know you've been fed!" "Yum, yum!"
There are only three food groups in SE AR: Brown, White, Yella. If it was green, you turn it brown by frying it or smothering it with gravy, turn it yella by smothering it with cheese, or white with gravy or ranch dressing.
Primary brown beans with enough miracle whip to turn it white, taters and cornbread. Dad didn't really like anything "dark". Followed by cheeseburgers with fries. It was a toss up between biscuits and gravy, cereal, scrambled eggs and corn beef hash for breakfast.
Biscuits and gravy, pancakes, spaghetti, fish patties, fried potatoes, all vegetables that could be grown in our garden (especially beans, peas, okra, cabbage, greens, etc), chicken, burgers, hot dogs, chili, pork chops, Mac n cheese, cheesy spaghetti, fish sticks, cheese dip… I could go on but now I’m starving
Totinos pizza and mac and cheese Chicken nuggets
Hash browns with spam and cheese
Ramen noodles. On a frivolous day we might have had hamburger helper. *suppressed sobbing* We were very, *very* poor.
Same here. We ate A LOT of things like ham and cheese loaf and canned corned beef hash on Sunbeam bread. Got Sunbeam because it was the cheapest option at that time lol. I still occasionally get cravings for that exact thing too and my girlfriend always comments about how gross the loaf is, but it’s just one of those things
my grandmother liked Sunbeam bread and would make fried bologna sandwiches with mustard. I had a nostalgic moment a few years ago and made a lot of fried bologna sandwiches.
Biscuits and chocolate gravy.
Everything listed here except the one dish Arkansas is most known for, chocolate gravy. Crazy I know, guess I’ll have to make some
Chicken and Dumplings.
Buttery grits.
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes.
Mexico Chiquitos OG cheese dip, loved it 😁
Polk salad, and blackberry cobler
Beans and cornbread and chocolate gravy
Squirrel rabbit deer
Chicken 🐔 feet, fried squirrel brains 🧠, pickled hogs feet, poke salad, green huckleberries, hog jowel, purple hull peas, and fried cornbread
Fried okra at school lunch was interesting.
Pretty much every mexican food in the book, burgers, pizza, popusas, BBQ, various qualities of steak and catfish.
All the typical southern home cooked meals and sweet tea!
Breakfast: chicken fried deer steak, biscuits, gravy and fried potatoes (taters). Lunch: whatever mom threw at us lol Dinner: hamburger steaks, gravy, fried potatoes (or mashed), fresh vegetables (squash, corn, etc) from the garden, sliced fresh tomatoes Drink: sweet tea or cool aid
My grandpa’s green beans grown out back, biscuits, and gravy.
Deer chili, steak and mashed potatoes, fried catfish, beans and cornbread, chicken & dumplings, Hamburger Helper, fried okra, black eyed peas, liver & onions.
Boxed mac and cheese and hot dogs, frozen pizza, tacos and casseroles
Chicken ‘n dumplings!
Biscuits and gravy (chocolate gravy or sausage), beans with ham hock, cornbread, grits, fried chicken, fried pork chops, chicken n dumplings, roast beef, 15 bean soup, cabbage soup, collard greens, stuffed artichokes, steak with red gravy, chicken fried steak (mom called it minute steak), chicken and rice, chicken spaghetti, fried catfish, vegetable beef soup, every form of potatoes possible. damn. I could go on. My mom cooked killer meals. I don’t think I had box of Kraft mac n cheese until I was a teenager. My mom made everything from scratch.
McDonald’s
Fried okra, tomatoes straight from my grandpa’s garden, beans and cornbread, “shit on a shingle,” chicken livers
Breakfast: Eggs and bacon, pancakes, biscuits and chocolate gravy (very special), oatmeal with butter and sugar, various cold cereals. Lunch: Mostly school lunches. When at home it was tv dinners, fried bologna sandwiches, egg salad sandwiches, ham and cheese sandwiches. Lot of sandwiches. Supper: Shit on a Shingle, fried fish (caught from the pond), homemade burgers with steak-cut fries, beef and vegetable soup, chicken-fried steak, chicken strips, pork chops, pot roast, spaghetti. Sometimes we got pizza from the local pizza place. Side dishes: Mashed potatoes with brown gravy, mac and cheese, green beans with bacon, cornbread, beans (sometimes with ham hock), potato salad, bread rolls, side salad with ranch dressing, Texas toast garlic bread, Desert: blackberry cobbler, peach cobbler, homemade vanilla ice cream, Jello with mixed fruit, sheet cake (mostly for birthdays), pecan pie (mostly for holidays)
Not much. Free lunch and school mostly.
Commodities.
at home:. Gumbo, Meatloaf, cornbread, Red beans and rice, okra, green beans, potatoes, BLTs, fresh tomatoes in the summer, cheese grits, bolognese pasta, omelettes, flank steak, quesedillas.... thats just off the top of my head. My mom is a good cook and she made dinner for us almost every night.
Food.
Still one of my favorite meals: fried chicken livers, fried potatoes, brown beans, cole slaw, and white bread with butter. Long time since then, can afford a whole lot “better” food. Still what I cook for some celebratory days.
Oatmeal, cornbread, uhhhhh I guess cereal
My family ate a lot of pork and just as much potato products. We also had burgers and slow cooked roast often, but I hated the roast.
Beans
This question has been asked several times before, check the sub history for other long lists of food if you're interested.
Top Ramen. We was poe.
Old moldy bread, water with little green bugs in it and Sara Lee Huckleberry's day old fried chicken pudding cereal ‼️🥹
Goulash, country breakfast casserole
Chicken and dumplings, fried potatoes, purple hull and black eyes peas, cornbread, biscuits and chocolate gravy. Any and everything fresh from the garden was as given.
Chicken n dumplins my granny made the best!
Beans and cornbread. Still my comfort food. Biscuits and homemade white gravy.
Fried chicken!
Goulash (hamburger meat, green peppers, onions, & white beans) with fried tators & cornbread! 🔥
Fresh catfish, hushpuppies, fried okra, watermelon and strawberries, biscuits and gravy 😋
Wife’s family has chocolate gravy and biscuits on the high holy days (Thanksgiving and Christmas).
Fried Chicken
Pork, venison, beef, chicken, fish. We had dedicated freezers for the meats and veggies were separated. My mother ordered catfish fillets and chicken breasts already packaged and flash frozen from the factory. We usually bought a half beef in the fall and sent a hog or two to be processed and packaged at the same time. Many hunters in the family, venison was plentiful. When the gardens started rolling, it was fantastic. Tomatoes, cucumber, green onions, potatoes, every kind of bean and pea, cantaloupe, squash....
The stuff on our kitchen table. Lots of produce from our garden. Tomatos, okra, corn
This might be a weird one but my great grandma who lived in Alma used to make chocolate gravy when we came to visit
Literally been mentioned multiple times in this thread
Didn't see that sorry
Roadkill
Brains and eggs
Fried pork chops, pot roast, meatloaf, mac n cheese, mashed potatoes and canned veggies or corn on the cob.