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Default Traditional( New Years Day Meal in the South
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Lady Pilot wrote:

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Beauregard wrote:

Black eyed peas with a ham hock or hog jowls

As far as North Florida Culinary Culture, I am really slipping this
year as I have not yet had any smoked mullet although we did have
cheese grits on Christmas.

What is mullet? I've had cheese grits in my travels.

New Year's Eve I cooked a double batch of fresh black-eyed peas.
Bacon, onion, garlic...not to mention my other special ingredients.

Cooked up some fresh green beans also. With bacon strips, of course!
Did I mention the cornbread or the ....fading

LP

Most people consider Mullet to be "trash fish" but it was long a staple
food for poor people along the N FL coast. Generally, it is eaten
fried along with Hushpuppies and cheesegrits and Cole Slaw washed down
with iced tea. Mullet is generally caught in nets and not on hooks.
Mullet roe is considered a delicacy by some but I wont touch it.
My policy on seafood restaurants is that if they consider themselves
too classy to serve fried mullet, I wont eat there because the seafood
is probably imported.
My brother in law started to fry mullet for Thanksgiving a few yrs ago
and we all think its better than having turkey. He always has plenty
cuz he knows how to throw a cast net.


Of course green beans have to be flavored with bacon, they are
tasteless otherwise. Unfortunately, my yankee wife has never learned
how to cook REAL food although she can cook a good Rhubarb pie. She
found some Rhubarb in the store here and nobody else knew what it was.
If I had to live up north, I'd probably starve, one damned pot roast
after another.
When I was a kid, my family grew a lot of Okra ( I hate the stuff) and
some new sherrif deputy from up north who had never seen it before
thought it was some weird form of marijuana.

Heck, I'm from up north and we had okra all the time...and instead of
mullet, which doesn't run in the G.L's, we fried smelt (yuck)...we also
boiled greens...and had chicken and pork along with the pot roasts...