koshergrl
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PS: Eating cheap may enable one to acquire wealth. My friend and me were talking about going to Colorado and opening a restaurant. One that serves Southern breakfasts and lunches.
Well, that would be "feeding" cheap -- the stuff of a typical Southern breakfast (not including garnishes and decorations) generally has among the lowest going food costs of just about any style of cuisine -- but as owners of the place, yes, you'd likely, and often, also eat well but quite inexpensively...everyone who owns a "proper" restaurant generally does, after all.
Yeah uhh, you couldn't put a decent Southern breakfast together if your life depended on it.
You're better off not speaking of things outside your realm of expertise, ok?
Ok, you have a vocabulary.
Whip me up some biscuits and gravy.
They eat much poorer choices in just about every section of the country.
Don't forget the eggs on top, do you know how they're supposed to be cooked?
Of course you don't.
STFU on this subject.
Furthermore that wasn't what I meant.
Way to miss the point, fella.
Proper southern breakfast (I'm not southern hahaha but this is how we eat):
Biscuits
butter and jam
white gravy
fried eggs
hot cakes (sourdough)
hot cereal...cream of wheat made with sugar and butter and served with cream, or grits made with cheese, or oatmeal with butter and brown sugar
fried ham/bacon/sausage..any or all
Fried venison if you have it
canned fruit or canned tomatoes
Did I miss anything?
Oh yeah!
Fried potatoes!
And a gallon of coffee and a gallon of milk.
Yes I have served this. Breakfast when my house is full is pretty much everything we have goes on the table and is served with gravy.Proper southern breakfast (I'm not southern hahaha but this is how we eat):
What? Well, where are you from? Why not just call it a "proper [wherever you are from] breakfast?"
Did I miss anything?
Several things, yes:
- Eggs need not be fried. Scramble, over-easy, omelette, sunny-side-up, poached, hard or soft boiled, etc. each can be part of a "proper" Southern breakfast.
- Freshly squeezed orange juice
- Nitpicking with this one -- White gravy generally has sausage in it. One certainly will come by it plenty often without the sausage.
- Not just any ol' biscuit. They must be buttermilk biscuits. For a Southerner, "biscuit" and "buttermilk biscuit" is synonymous, but for readers who don't know that, one must be clear.
- Southerners, of course, do eat canned fruits (tomato is a fruit), but they do so out of convenience. Given the abundance of farms and gardens in the South, a "proper" breakfast will have fresh fruit. It may be berries, melons, or tree-grown fruit, but it won't have spent any time in a can. The exception is one's own home canned fruits.
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I don't know any, literally, Southern families that don't can. Even I do it because my wife passed and someone has to. If one has a still, one will leave a few pieces of the canned fruit in the jar, fill the jar with "raw shine," and let it sit for a year or two.
What does one do with fruited shine? Whatever one wants to do with it. Basically, it's a potable fruit flavored extract, or if one's let it sit long enough, liqueur. For instance, put vanilla beans in the jar and it'll essentially be vanilla extract. Peaches and vanilla beans are really good together.
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I use it mostly in iced or hot tea and party punches. Mom did that and cooked with it. I was especially fond of her fruit-shine candied sweet potatoes. (Sometimes it was peach, other times pear.) I've cooked with it too, but not as much as Mom did. I used it for deglazing a wide variety sauteed vegetable dishes.
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- A bed, rocking chair, easy chair, or something of the sort.....because if one has a "proper" breakfast as large as the one you've described -- folks certainly do; I have -- taking a nap is what happens next.
- Lots of things for children to do on their own....When kids eat breakfasts like that, they have more energy than it takes to kill a snake. Thus if one hasn't available such amusements, one will not have a restful nap. LOL
My grandparents' family on my dad's side were bluegrass fiddle players and hailed from Tennessee, Texas, Kentucky....
My white gravy doesn't have sausage in it. It's white gravy.
My biscuits are buttermilk when we have a cow.
Everybody on both sides of my family canned. Fresh fruit generally goes into pies in our homes