O.K., I am officially in Southern Girl heaven. I bit the bullet.

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melissa-dallas

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I hate frying things but decided I wanted this enough. Dinner is fresh black-eyed peas cooked with bacon drippings and okra cooked on top, sliced home-grown tomato topped with cottage cheese and (cornmeal) fried yellow squash. Just like being at grannies minus the fried chicken, which I wouldn't have room for anyway.

 
If it had been at my grannies there would also have been:

fried chicken, rolls, sliced canteloupe, fresh green beans, all kinds of pickles or sliced cucumbers and onions in ice water and vinegar, probably some kind of potatoes, maybe a jello salad and either homemade cake or pie. She did German Sweet Chocolate or Italian Cream a lot.

 
You know, this is probably sacrilige in my part of the country, but I am not a huge cornbread fan

The rest of my family would probably be happy with a bowl of beans and a piece of cornbread every night for a week. It's o.k. and I like a piece every once and a while (and my grannie's was super good) but it is just not my favorite thing. I do like corn sticks where the whole thing is very crispy, or johnny cakes, or hush puppies. I do, however, love buttermilk.

 
I'd never tasted the thick sweet cornbread until I grew up. Ours was about 1 inch high, dense,

and baked in a cast iron skillet.... super crunchy all around the outside and NOT sweet at all. We would crumble it up in a glass of cold buttermilk and eat it with a big spoon - YU-UM!

 
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