What do you want for supper?

[UTTransplant]

I grew up with a very southern grandma, like raised in Alabama southern. We had fried chicken twice a week (she made fabulous fried chicken!), greens (can’t stand the slimy things), hominy (another thing I avoid like the plague), and grits. I still prefer potatoes and rice to grits, but I will eat them in the south. And I never get sweet tea north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Too many of the northern folks seem to think sweet team is unsweet tea with a bunch of sugar added - blasphemy!

But as for tonight, it is baked chicken thighs and Yukon potatoes, seasoned with olive oil, parley, and rosemary. I might add some Parmesan if I get in the mood. I don’t cook southern, even though I grew up on it.

 

[Chef Duane]

I do miss my wife's fried chicken, which if course was her mom's fried chicken. Being from California I always thought fried chicken meant Shake 'n Bake.

 

[Vanbrat]

I grew up with a very southern grandma, like raised in Alabama southern. We had fried chicken twice a week (she made fabulous fried chicken!), greens (can’t stand the slimy things), hominy (another thing I avoid like the plague), and grits. I still prefer potatoes and rice to grits, but I will eat them in the south. And I never get sweet tea north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Too many of the northern folks seem to think sweet team is unsweet tea with a bunch of sugar added - blasphemy!

But as for tonight, it is baked chicken thighs and Yukon potatoes, seasoned with olive oil, parley, and rosemary. I might add some Parmesan if I get in the mood. I don’t cook southern, even though I grew up on it.

Hubby had a job interview in Florida several years back and boy was I surprised when I ordered iced tea, it was sooooo sweet I could not drink it! And when I asked the waitress for unsweetened tea, she gave me the oddest look, like maybe I was from Mars or something.... And no, he did not take the job.

He did have a job in Maine for a few months, and they looked at me odd because I ordered iced tea and it wasn't even June yet, so I learned to order a hot tea and a glass of ice.

In Montana the waitress just brought me tea and a huge number of sweeteners. And lemons. I liked the state of Montana..