Southern Food Suggestions?

[Yooper]

'Mint Juleps on the Veranda' is the theme for a party I've been invited to in two weeks. The host provides the ribs and pulled pork (last year he cooked 20 racks of ribs and 20 lbs. of pork), and it's quite a fun time. He even provides the Mint Juleps and Sweet Tea and imports a bunch of different sauces for the meat from Alabama.

Everyone is asked to bring something else. Baked Beans, Cole Slaw, and Pecan Pie are already spoken for. I seem to have developed a reputation for being a fairly decent cook but am drawing a complete blank on something to bring, so if anyone has a suggestion, I sure could use some ideas for some truly Southern, and transportable, side dish. Thanks!

 

[star-warrior]

Gumbo ?

 

[HawaiiBum]

How about some vanilla ice cream with sweet potato pie or peach cobbler for dessert? You can make collard greens with smoked ham hocks or green beans with red potatoes as a side dish.

Of course, there are gumbo, jambalaya, fried catfish, hush puppies, but they contain seafood or need to be fried and so are not transportable and fresh. But you can make jambalaya with smoked sausage and chicken only.

You can also prepare the gumbo and leave the seafood out until you arrive and heat the mix thoroughly then add the seafood.

 

[kevbo]

fried okra

 

[rareboy]

Grit toasts with crab salad.

Paula made those.

I think that a jumablaya is the ticket.

 

[gmoney]

Collard greens.

 

[valis23]

I made a big bowl of potato salad yesterday. How about that?

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Possum

 

[star-warrior]

I made palmiers on Sunday afternoon. Quick to do, and if you knock up a huge batch, you can serve it with whipped cream, and it's delicious!

 

[alley]

Fried chicken would be my chioce.

 

[tigerfan]

Corn bread

 

[Txgoodoldboy]

Deviled eggs.

 

[gmoney]

Pork Rinds.

 

[bigblock]

Green Beans.

Potato salad is not a great choice because there are five hundred thousand ways to F it up. And everybody's idea of the best potato salad is different. Trust me.

 

[BluesDog]

If you are looking for a dessert, try a chess pie--- a rich custard in a crust.

For a side dish, you can't get much more Southern than greens slow cooked with a little salt pork or smoked pork for 'extry' flavor.

If you want to take a bread, you can't go wrong with biscuits and sorghum syrup or corn bread (most emphatically without any sugar).

 

[chatolandia]

if you want to go really southern, you can make churrasco con chimichurri

 

[eddielee]

Cracklin' cornbread is good. Just make up some cornbread and stir some hog cracklin's in the batter. Succotash is another good dish. It's a mixture of corn and lima beans seasoned with pork. Hopping John ( rice and black-eyed peas) would be a nice dish. Baked sweet taters are always good.

 

[snapcat]

If you are looking for a dessert, try a chess pie--- a rich custard in a crust.

I think chess pie would be a fine idea, and it would be easy to transport.

Fried green tomatoes would be an obvious choice, but difficult to transport.

Jambalaya would be a great main course!

If the hosts are going to prepare BBQ, then I think the best idea would be to make some cornbread.

 

[seven_sins]

Turnip greens, macaroni pie, she-crab soup, cooter soup, oyster fritters, fried hominy, okra pilau, asparagus casserole, corn pie, candied sweet potatoes, fried tomatoes, short'nin' bread, corn bread sticks, syllabub, iced pound cake, pecan pralines, watermellon rind pickle.....

 

[snapcat]

^ oh, that makes my mouth water!