From One Generation to the Next



My Maternal Grandmother was a wonderful cook.  She was born and raised in Arkansas and that Southern Cooking was.... well, there was nothing quite like it.   She never used a recipe for anything that she made.  It was all saved up in that wonderful, sweet head of hers.  There was a time when my sister and I tried to write down some recipes while she cooked them; it was the only way we could try to get the measurements down.  I am not sure we were very successful with that though, it still never tasted quite like hers.  All of us kids and my cousins loved it when my grandmother cooked.  Most of it was not very healthy as it was made with fat and butter and all of that good stuff but it was the BEST!  She made her classics such as biscuits and gravy, fried chicken, chicken fried steak, meatloaf, beans and homemade cornbread.  The list just goes on and on. 

There are certain foods that I still eat the way that my grandmother prepared them, like canned green beans with left over bacon grease. This is a before picture... I didn't get the after because we ate them so quickly. They were delicious! What flavor!

Canned Green Beans w/ Bacon Grease

Then there was the fried okra that she picked out of her very own garden.

Just seeing this picture makes my mouth water.



Fried Okra





There was only ONE meal/snack that none of us kids could ever come to like.  It will not be handed down to the next generation in any of our families, I'm afraid.

Here are the ingredients and the directions which are very simple.

Take a large glass and fill it with cornbread.

Then to the cornbread add some buttermilk

 

Take your spoon and dig right in!

Although my grandparents and their parents before them really enjoyed this meal...we will only be talking about it from one generation to the next!