Pecan Pie and Mint Julep haters...

[highland145]

This just might be the most thoroughly southern thing you've ever typed.

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[lxskllr]

My mint julep recipe...

Pour bourbon into glass
roll mint into a cigarette with tobacco

drink bourbon, smoke cigarette. Repeat as necessary.

For the pie, I'd rather go farther south and have key lime

 

[brianmanahan]

nowww highland, doesn't this belong in... moderator discussions?

 

[Xstatic1]

My mint julep recipe...

Pour bourbon into glass
roll mint into a cigarette with tobacco

drink bourbon, smoke cigarette. Repeat as necessary.

For the pie, I'd rather go farther south and have key lime

Yup, Key Lime Pie > Pecan Pie

 

[brianmanahan]

Yup, Key Lime Pie > Pecan Pie

i didn't realize that key lime pie was from the florida keys until i'd already left

 

[IronWing]

i didn't realize that key lime pie was from the florida keys until i'd already left

Thank goodness for Sara Lee.

 

[Xstatic1]

i didn't realize that key lime pie was from the florida keys until i'd already left

I'd never eaten a Key Lime Pie until I went to Florida. I've had a slice at 3 places (Blue Heaven restaurant in Key West; Versailles bakery in Miami; Grand Floridian Cafe at Grand Floridian Resort/Walt Disney World). That said, you didn't miss much.

Pretty sure the recipe I developed kicks butt (I use more ingredients).

 

[Ns1]

mint juleps are awesome.

 

[Charmonium]

If you want mint in your drink: Mojito.

I was going to say it sounds like a mojito with bourbon instead of rum.

I see no one has mentioned collard greens or pot liquor yet.

 

[Excelsior]

I'd never eaten a Key Lime Pie until I went to Florida. I've had a slice at 3 places (Blue Heaven restaurant in Key West; Versailles bakery in Miami; Grand Floridian Cafe at Grand Floridian Resort/Walt Disney World). That said, you didn't miss much.

Pretty sure the recipe I developed kicks butt (I use more ingredients).

The America's Test Kitchen recipe is really solid.

Also, screw the pecan pie haters. It's great, and so are pecan bars.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I was going to say it sounds like a mojito with bourbon instead of rum.

I see no one has mentioned collard greens or pot liquor yet.

Or chitlins.

 

[balloonshark]

When I was in NC I had a friend show me how he made bbq chicken with Carolina Treat bbq sauce. It was mighty tasty.

One day during lunch a friend took me to a small restaurant and I got to try a deep fried pork chop. All I can say was it was like heaven on earth. It's also not unusual to find boiled peanuts at small mom and pop type stores.

 

[MongGrel]

If you just repeated that statement at the Kentucky Derby, they might beat you up. It's their official drink!

Pretty much, but I still have never really cared for them. Prefer a real Mojito myself.

I like good Pecan Pie.

The wife will even eat collard greens, and she is usually pickier than I, I just never cared for them.

That said, she doesn't like Crawfish Etouffee. Had to get here turned onto grits also, she loves em now.

Have a Key Lime tree in the back yard...

 

[MongGrel]

My Granny, born in 1911, had to take over the kitchen when her Mother died. She was was 12 or so. I'd slap the whole family, several times, to be able to enjoy her cooking again. OMGWTHBBQ:wub::wub:

And can you step out into the street so I can run over you with my truck? Perpetuating that mustard myth crap should be illegal.

+1

:biggrin:

 

[Charmonium]

It's also not unusual to find boiled peanuts at small mom and pop type stores.

Oh god. Boiled peanuts. How I miss those. I found that you can get canned ones on Amazon but it's not the same. They're also too salty. I've gotten fresh peanuts at asian grocery stores and made my own but only once as far as I can recall. Much better.

Just searching now it seems that you can also get vacuum packed raw peanuts from Amazon. Will have to check those out. Search for boiled peanuts (kit).

 

[MongGrel]

Oh god. Boiled peanuts. How I miss those. I found that you can get canned ones on Amazon but it's not the same. They're also too salty. I've gotten fresh peanuts at asian grocery stores and made my own but only once as far as I can recall. Much better.

Just searching now it seems that you can also get vacuum packed raw peanuts from Amazon. Will have to check those out. Search for boiled peanuts (kit).

They still even put those out in the convenience stores here in pots.

To be honest, I rarely see many people touch them these days. Just another thing I never got into personally I guess. Most local small bars even had them all over at one time.

You can find all kinds of weird stuff down here, I remember years ago we went to some place for lunch at a mom & pop seafood place and they had deep fried lobster tail, and we all got one each for grins and giggles.

Wasn't bad, but wouldn't do it again.

 

[Xstatic1]

The America's Test Kitchen recipe is really solid.

Also, screw the pecan pie haters. It's great, and so are pecan bars.

My Key Lime Pie recipe is similar to America's Test Kitchen's. I use the same core ingredients but my measurements slightly vary. The one key difference is I use Nellie & Joe's Famous Key Lime Juice (I once tried using actual Key Limes D::thumbsdown. Also, I use 3 more ingredients to give the pie a more tropical flavor.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Is key lime pie that unusual? Or pecan pie, for that matter? I had both growing up in Pennsylvania and I'm sure I've seen them here in Colorado.

 

[highland145]

Dang, thought this thread died after the Makers Mark....So, collards suck along with mustard greens. Chitlins (Chitlin festival is local) are effed up along with pickled chicken feet, pork feet/ears. Makes me feel sad for the poor blacks in the old south. Starvation will make you cook anything.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

WTH is Mint Julep?

A waste of perfectly good bourbon.

 

[MongGrel]

A waste of perfectly good bourbon.

I was going to say that earlier, but you hit it

Ramen.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Chitlin festival is local

I knew some folks who used to live near Aiken, SC. (I think it was Aiken). Told me about how the chitlin festival stunk the whole town to high hell. They had to leave town during the festival to keep from throwing up.

 

[highland145]

I knew some folks who used to live near Aiken, SC. (I think it was Aiken). Told me about how the chitlin festival stunk the whole town to high hell. They had to leave town during the festival to keep from throwing up.

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Have never been and never will. A good friend plays/ed in a band and they would book for the whole day there. He said it was tough weighing the triple rate vs the day in funk hell.D:

 

[JulesMaximus]

I love Pecan Pie. Sooo good!!! :thumbsup:

 

[highland145]

Cap, I'm in. Jules approved thread and no one mentioned a clip. Woot.