I was born and grew up in the heart of the deep South. I remember can, that I remember me long summer afternoons spent iced as far back to drink tea and shelling peas and Butterbeans on my grandmother's veranda. I have moved on from my roots and my way to other regions of the world have made. One thing, but that has remained constant in my life my deep and abiding by the law is love to southern cooking and cuisine.

I was probably in my teen years before I realized that tea could be served elsewhere when loaded with sugar and ice. It was at this time, I realized that vegetables would eat some people, which dredged in the batter in cornmeal, and deep fat fried soaked was still not. Southern cooking is not for the faint of heart, although it can cause many heart weak growth. One thing to say is that you never anything else like it on Earth.

Learned people in the South, with little often make. Some of the poorest people in America living in the southern part of the country. Of course you will find that many of these people despite their poverty also to include the most generous. Food be the same. It is the one thing that seems in ample supply in the southernmost houses and very few are you away with empty stomach.

Perhaps it is often in southern food cooking the spices. Bring to a boil from the crab and gumbo file of Cajun cuisine, the secret ingredient that almost every southern cuisine for their chicken recipes contains fried (and no one on earth can as a born and bred southern Grandma roast chicken). Perhaps it is Church Sunday dinner where everyone shares what little they have with others or of love, which is these courts that will be shared with friends and family in preparation. In any case may be, if you ever have the opportunity to real Southern cooking experience, pass it not to. You could shave off your life one day, but a good Southern fried chicken leg really lives and is worth the sacrifice, if you ask me.

It would be naturally remiss to mention southern cooking without some more delicious desserts, which seem to be perfection for the South. Banana pudding is mentioned above, but there are so many more. Chocolates are perfect for those life down to New Orleans as is bread pudding. A little to the East there are grannies who so coveted have taken their lemon icebox pie recipes to the grave with them this delicious deserts were and the same applies to pecan pie as well. We should never forget of spicy Mississippi Mud cake, however, and so many other wonderful delicious treats this southern cooking has introduced to the world as a whole.

Favorite vegetable in the heart of the South as mentioned above contain peas and Butterbeans, snap beans, corn, pumpkin (eventually summer is all year round in the South) and okra (fried or cooked in many southern kitchens). Not all vegetables were deep fried, although were only a few restricted area. I remember my share of fried okra, squash, eat fried and Yes, fried green tomatoes. Life was good back if calories were not counted, and no one really worried about that clog arteries. While I make this a daily Bowl in a household would not, I would certainly recommend them to try if you ever find the way.

Another great thing about southern cooking is the wonderful fried seafood, which seems, abound. From fried fish (almost every variety works well, if it is Southern Fried) oysters, fried seafood taste in the South seems just so much better. If you hope to learn some of the southern cooking and cuisine, you probably need your spices and have delivered if your grocery store has an extensive "exotic" food selection. Sometimes you'll find great southern spices to the corridors of international cuisine in grocery stores as well as. If you really want to handle your family for a great meal, you should really try, southern cooking for the night.

Remember grandma's cooking? The awesome aromas and hearty flavors coming from her kitchen where certainly enticing and the entire family would hang around the kitchen until she finally shouted "Supper's Ready!" Aunts, uncles and cousins would rush the table to get their favorite seat, rush through the blessing just to dig in to the outstanding flavors of grandma's kitchen. As unhealthy as those meals were, we certainly loved them. Wouldn't it be fantastic to turn out meals with hints of her kitchen mixed right in to healthier foods?

Find out, from her if possible or from other family members what grandma's favorite spices were and try to obtain some of her recipes. Examine her old recipes and see where you can make modifications to make the old recipes a little healthier. Perhaps where she made heavy, greasy gravy, you can try using a lighter au jus. Instead of mashed potatoes with heavy cream and a ton of butter and salt, you may be able to substitute those ingredients with 2% or even skim milk and butter buds. You may try adding some garlic instead of salt or possibly adding shredded low fat cheese to the mashed potatoes for more flavor without using so much salt.

While salt rubs were typical on large cuts of meat that were baked for hours, these days we have so many other seasonings at our disposal. Mix and match other seasonings until you can duplicate her pot roast, but with less salt. Try using a crock pot to achieve the long cooking times she used because a crock pot uses very little electricity when compared to an oven. The crock pot tends to hold more of the natural juices in the meat. Try using a wok to stir fry vegetables to a crisp tender consistency. This helps to maintain the nutrients in them instead of boiling all the vitamins out only to steam away.

Many of grandma's baked goods were so yummy, but so very fattening and unhealthy. These days we have so many options with baked goods like cakes, cookies, pies and the like to make them much healthier. Two ideas that may be of interest to you in your own personal quest to move towards healthier eating habits may be to purchase the half cake mixes at the store or try to cut her recipe in half. Don't forget to share your yummy creation with friends, family member or your neighbors. This will help you avoid the temptation of eating up the whole cake yourself at one sitting.

Grandma's pies were usually made of real fresh picked fruits but tons of sugar was usually added. Sugar was often even put in the crust before being rolled out. Today we can use a graham cracker crust or we can add vanilla extract as part of the liquid required to add flavor to a regular crust. Fresh fruits or canned fruits that have been packed in their own juices are available now, and they are much better for you.

Keep experimenting to capture the familiar flavors of Grandma's kitchen. You will be eating healthier without losing any of those comforting flavors.

Michelle had no concept just what some sort of crock pot was in fact before her good friend. Invited her back home for dinner 1 evening. Sarah agreed to, imagining they would end up eating leftovers or maybe take-out Chinese. In fact, they had a delicious slow cooker beef stew which had really been slowly cooking away more or less all day while both the ladies had been at work.

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Most people might not be quite familiar with how to cook chitterlings. But the best way to cook chitterlings the southern way is to use the best southern seasoning. Not all southern seasoning are the same and if you do not use the right southern seasoning, then you could end up with a very bad tasting chitterlings.

Chitterlings but for many the term chitlins is very common to them. But one might ask what really is Chitterlings or Chitlins? The answer to that question is that chitterlings is really the intestine of a pig. People from the south have use this as a delicacy for years and now it has become mainstream to a lot of homes.

The Best Way To Cook Chitterlings The Southern Way

If you are trying to cook chitterlings for the first time then you must be prepared to spend some time getting it ready. Chitterlings can be found in your freezer section in your local grocery and taken home and thawed.

Do not be surprised that it has a quite a horrible smell. But also do not be fooled by the smell once you have prepared it well, you will be eating so much of it that you'll soon forget the taste.

Once you have taken it home and thawed it now it's time to roll up your sleeves and get busy cleaning your chitterlings. The first step in the cleaning process is that you need to have some time set aside to do it correctly. Trying to rush this job will leave you with an unclean meat that will not have a delicious, flavorful smell.

Cleaning the Chitterlings

1. Soak the chitterlings in a pot of cold water for at least 20 minutes
2. Using your hands you want to gently uncoil the chitterlings. To clean you will use your fingers and a knife to remove all the remanding fat and anything else that might cause your chitterlings to smell
3. Once this is completed, you will put the chitterlings in a large pot of water along with baking soda and let it boil. Once start boiling, remove from flame.
4. Pour the chitterlings in a strainer and add cold water
5. Once this is done, you will once again do another cleaning of the chitterlings

Once the cleaning process has been done, it is now time to cook your chitterlings the southern way. For the best taste in preparing your chitterlings, you must add the right southern seasoning to your chitterlings.

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