DSP Blog Prompt 5/3/07

Blog Prompt: You have heard that the President and his wife of an obscure country is coming to visit and picked you (and your family if you want) to have dinner with. You can decide to cook for them or order in or take them out. What 5 dishes would you want them to taste? They can be any part of a meal (appetizers, main dish, vegetables, salads, desserts) or all of one type (all desserts for example).

I belive I would decide to cook for them, and give them a taste of authentic hillbilly cookin'-- just like Mammy used to do. I'd make them:

Homemade biscuits:

2 parts self rising flour
1 part shortening
1 part milk
(The only time Mammy ever measured when cooking was when she was doing an intricate candy such as peanut brittle or divinity. She is the one who taught me to cook, and I do not measure most of the time, either.)

Wilted Lettuce:

Fry bacon and prepare white beans. White beans can be canned, if neccessary, but Mammy always used leftover white beans from a pan of ham hock and white beans cooked the day before. Also cut up green onion stalks in small pieces.

Take fresh washed and dried green leaf lettuce (not iceberg) and lay in 4 or 5 layers.

Heat leftover bacon grease to very, very hot, and sparingly drizzle it over lettuce. You will hear a crisp crackling sound.

Scatter white beans on top, then layer green onions and bacon cut into very small bits. (No processed bacon bits!)


Venison

Cut fresh venison (crossgrain) into small bite size cubes or pieces. Toss lightly in flour. Fry in 5 or 6 tables spoons of olive oil and several teaspoons chooped onions. Add fresh cooked bacon slices into mix when complete.

Fried Green Tomatoes

Prepare a separate bowl of eggs and a heavy dash of milk, beat well.

Cut slices of green tomatoes about 1/4 inch thick. Dunk each slice in egg mixture, then in yellow corn meal. Fry in oil.

Rhubarb Pie

This is so hard to make, Mammy's way, I'm not even going to post it.

But nobody likes stuff like this to me, so they would probably turn their nose up at it. And these days, it's considered heart attack on a plate, but just every once in awhile I can't resist it! To me, it's a meal fit for a king.