We Southerners challenge you to a "recipe-off!"

[Maddy McCall]

Get out your garlic extractors and mezzalunas all that other fancy equipment you guys use as crutches to prepare those meals that can't hold a candle to ours. Get out your cake flour and fish broth and chick peas and all those other extravagant ingredients--all that stuff that we find so unnecessary--and try to beat us!

Here's the deal. You designate a team leader, and then he or she will open a thread, to which you all will submit those frilly Yankee recipes.

Only entrees, main dishes--no deserts or stuff like that. (I know it's killing you that you can't submit your grandmother's nasty baklava recipe, but life goes on.)

Tomorrow afternoon, after everyone has submitted their favorite recipe, your team leader will post a poll in here, and you guys will vote on your favorite recipe. (I can just imagine the winner--sauteed salmon pate mousse or some such garbage.)

We'll select our winner over in the Southern group. At this point, you guys should probably just fold and agree to concede to us, but we know your pride won't let you, so let's go on.

(If you guys won't come into our forum and vote on the lowliest recipe--the hotdogs and franks or whatever--we won't come to yours and vote on yours--probably some sort of clam omelette or something. Let's work on the honor system, which I know will be a challenge for all you yankees here seeing as to how you haven't been raised to know good morals and family values, but just try, ok?)

At five o'clock eastern tomorrow afternoon, your team leader and I will get together and start a poll in the lounge with both recipes. All DUers will get to vote on the best.

Here's the prize:
If the Southerners' group wins the lounge poll, you must admit that Southerners are the best cooks in the world, and that no matter the culinary training you Cooks undergo, you can never dominate the kitchen with as much authority as we do.

If the Cooking group wins the lounge poll, Southerners must admit that the cooking group is without peer in the culinary arena and that we don't hold superior authority in matters of epicurian delights. We will ced that you are truly the gods of the hearth fire.


So, whatcha say? Is the game on?

If your team leader wishes to extend the gauntlet by coming over to our neck of the woods and taunting us, that's ok--you know how we Southerners are--we're already used to challenges. Look where we live!

:P :P :P :P :P

And EDIT: Let me add that any Southern group member who submits a recipe to the Cooks risks being shot on spot for the worst form of treachery we Southerners can think of! Pow Pow. Just remember that!

(Disclaimer: I hope everyone realizes that this is just fun ribbing and meant to make the game more fun. I love all y'all, and you know it. So kiss my grits! :evilgrin: )

[wryter2000]

1. Aw, shoot

My favorite northern recipe is for clam chowdah. Does that count?

Anyone have a good recipe for red flannel hash? I love that stuff.

[morningglory]

2. Stuffed Collard Leaves

STUFFED COLLARDS
Makes: 10 Rolls
Servings: 4 to 5
· 10 big collard leaves
· 1/2 cup brown rice
· 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
· 1 medium onion, finely chopped
· 2 minced garlic cloves
· 1 pound lean ground beef
· 1 large egg, lightly beaten
· 3/4 teaspoon salt
· 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
· 1 (15-ounce) can peeled , diced Italian tomatoes, undrained
· 2 tablespoons brown sugar
· 2 tablespoons lemon juice
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the collard leaves and cook, covered, until the leaves are tender enough to work with. Trim down the thick rib in the center of each leaf.
In a medium saucepan of lightly salted boiling water, cook the rice for 5 minutes. Drain, rinse under cold running water, and drain again.
In a medium skillet, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring often, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring often, for 1 minute. Transfer to a medium bowl, and mix in the precooked rice, the ground beef, egg, savory, salt, and pepper.
Place about 1/3 cup of the filling in the center of a collard leaf, fold over the sides, and roll up into a cylinder. Place the roll on a plate, seam side down, and repeat with remaining leaves and filling.
In a blender, process the tomatoes with their juice, the brown sugar, and lemon juice to a puree. Pour the sauce into a dutch oven, and layer the cabbage rolls in the sauce. Cover and slow-cook until the rolls are tender, 1-to 1 ½ hours on low (300 degrees F).

[roguevalley]

3. my great grandma's wine sauce for her mince meat is a family

secret so old it goes back before 1840 and we're sworn not to give it to anyone. Only the girls in the family. It is to die for. So is her mince meat. Sweat, not 'meaty' tasting, the best in the world. Ever.

[kittycat1164]

4. From thr great state of KY! Hot Browns!!!

Hot Browns originated at the beginning of the century at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, KY

3 oz roasted turkey breat, sliced
1 slice toasted white bread
2 slices of tomato
2 slices of bacon, cooked and drained

Sauce:
1/2 stick butter
3 tbs flour
3/4 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup grated swiss cheese
salt and pepper to taste

Heat butter and flour, whisk and slowly cook 5 minutes. Whisk in cream and milk and heat. Whisk in cheese until melted. Season. Simmer 20 minutes until sauce thickens. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Quarter the toasted bread and place on oven safe dish. Top with turkey and tomatoes. Cover with sauce. Bake for 10 minutes. Garnish with bacon.

Enjoy while you feel your arteries harden!

[Logansquare]

5. Grits--blech

Kiss my hash browns.

[NMDemDist2]

7. you've obviously never had them topped with a over easy egg and cheese

a big pat of butter and fresh ground pepper

my favorite hangover cure and a to die for breakfast anytime

[kayell]

9. Oh yes. Especially if made with stone ground whole grits, the kind

that are ground with the germ intact and cook up kind of speckled looking. You have to keep them in the freezer, but oh, so good.

[Lefty48197]

6. My favorite southern food:

Those chocolate and peanut butter "buckeyes" they sell down in Ohio.

[NMDemDist2]

8. PSSSSSTTTTTT Lefty psssttt

Ohio isn't the south ya know?