My wife and I were just discussing this two days ago. We could not figure out why anyone would’ve ever tried melted cheese on top of apple pie.
Now, a freshly made from scratch Granny Smith apple pie, still warm from the oven, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, that’s a wonder to behold and a taste to savor, especially when it’s so darned hot outside.
And mashed potatoes with that slightly metallic flavor, definitely hard to beat.
I’d suggest your friend Hayden try substituting melted cheddar for some Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla or maybe Breyers Vanilla Bean and see what she thinks of that. Save the cheddar for the mashed potatoes.
Right, Lander. Cheese has its place, like toasted between two slices of heavily buttered Sunbeam bread, maybe with bacon added, or some of that Conecuh Sausage Sean wrote about.
My daddy was an oyster man…he loved them. Mama would warm milk and butter over the stove and include those oysters…sorry ewww! She also made oyster dressing…on very lean years I remember her pointing out which side of the pan to get the dressing as the rest had those mollusks residing in nearby. 🤢 Of course my sister and I would pass! Haha. Sorry to say mama didn’t have the temperament for biscuits. Hers always came out like rocks, she’d laugh and daddy would just cover them with sticks of margarine and homemade jelly! Oh the memories…💕
A gracious good morning and happy Saturday to all yall. Preach brother Preach !
Finally, you write a column about a topic that I am an expert on. May I suggest that you should write another one covering some delicacies that you have neglected. Let me see the hands of those folks that can make biscuits from scratch. Boston Butt that's been smoked until you can wiggle the bone out of it. How about fresh caught crappie fresh fried in a black skillet over an open campfire on the river bank. Now here is a curveball, lobster, and steamers cooked by my cousin Jimmy in Castine Maine with fresh drawn butter and home made rolls and fresh blueberry pie ( which I will be enjoying in 3 weeks). See what I mean Sean. So raise your grilled peanut butter and banana samich in a toast to all those good things. I hafta wipe the drool off my screen. Yall have a splendiferous day and...
Can’t believe he left off fried mullets (plural for you Earlisco), Key West Pink shrimps, grouper, red snapper, Spanish mackerel and fried corn breaaaayd either
Fried Mullet is the first thing I get when I visit my mom in Pensacola…..I bring home, to Denver..a pile of royal reds and grouper…..and let’s not forget Hoovers cornmeal…med grind for dressing and fine for hoecake.
The ending of your story once again gave me a chuckle 🤭 but however you did mention a few of my favorite foods and don’t forget the biscuits and gravy combo which is so very very good and now I’m hungry 🤣🤣 my dear friend I enjoyed this story as I enjoy all your stories keep them coming ☺️☺️☺️
You are from the South and did not mention TexMex? Not enchies or burritos or queso or anything that will set your innards on fire and completely clog your aorta? I am sorry, Sean, but we cannot be friends any longer. Unless you bring biscuits straight out of the oven. And beer.
It's easier to list the foods I can't stand. I think boiled okra stands at the top of the list. Slimy, disgusting stuff. My dad once told me, if I ate a piece of boiled okra, which at up to the age of 8, I had sense enough to avoid, we'd all go to the drive in - movie, don't you know. They had those things back then. I really wanted to go to the movies, so I picked one up by the tail, like I was about to eat a live fish, and dropped it into my mouth before my gag reflex could kick in. It went down - and it came back up - and shot across the table straight into the redeye gravy bowl. My brother fell off the chair, he laughed so hard. (Brothers! Born with a low sense of humor.) I was never asked to eat another piece of slimy - uh, boiled okra - and I have gone through life without any stress at all pretending the obnoxious stuff does not exist. (Uh - we still went to the movies.)
Pone, kind er a mouth watering column, iffn I say so myself! Just a few corrections: it's Shrimps, not shrimp- cause you can't eat just one! And dem raw orsters- hepatitis on da hall shell! Finally, you missed one of the local favorites "Sister Schubert's Pigs in a Blanket and other assorted rolls - esp cinnamon!" Of I forgot- they quit makin dem last year and made up some pinwheel sausage rolls I thinks Dey imports from MOSCOW! "You'll eat it, and you'll like it dumkoff!" Talks about paving paradise and putting up a parking lot! Sing it Joni wid yo big yelled taxi!" Mebe Conecur sausage can pick up dere slack!
Finally Pone I saw dis today and had ter pass it along from Mr. David Cooper:
SUPPER CLUB
AT SWEETWATER BRANCH
Senior Thoughts
July 12th, 2024
*In America, it's "Believe it or not", but in Russia & China it is "Believe it or else".
*Propaganda is the other side's case put so convincingly that it annoys you.
*An open mind, like an open window, should be equipped with a screen to keep the bugs out.
*Nowadays people are like plants... some go to seed with age, and others go to pot.
*In this life, the old believes everything, the middle-age suspects everything, and the young knows everything.
*Some girls get married because they don't like spending evenings alone.... and then get a divorce for the same reason.
*Of all the home remedies, a good wife is the best!
Every time I travel down that I-65 Super-Slab my vehicle tries to steer itself off at Exit 96 to the Conecuh tourist trap and eatery. Love that artery-clogging stuff! My Drs. try, but i fear they have given up.
Incorporate melted cheese and most picky eaters will eat whatever. No one should have a problem with apple pie. Vanilla ice cream, whipped cream or sweet cream; by all means, yes! My dad would even pour cold milk (from our cow) over most fruit pies. Delicious!
Cheese on apple pie has its origin in England I’ve found. I would have guessed a trendy Julia Child French thing that was easily replicated in the humble American home. England is same country where black pudding, haggis and marmite are all the rage. I rest my case.
Just kidding, I follow Jamie Oliver, one of my favorite celebrity chefs. Today my grandsons are bringing blueberries from the other grandparents farm. So maybe a cobbler is in order. Sans the cheese.
I have been accused of a willingness to eat anything that doesn't move away fast enough, and swear it's good. That's not strictly true. I do not, will not, and never did eat chittlin's. Once you smell them cooking, all bets are off. Other than that, only oysters will never pass my lips again - only because of a particularly nasty allergy to them that results in hives the size of a silver dollar, vicious intestinal cramps, and other symptoms not fit to mention. I love my food and thank the Lord daily for functioning taste buds. Good fried chicken, fresh greens cooked with a country ham hock, crisp hickory smoked bacon with an over-easy egg, biscuits and sausage gravy on the side, homemade pound cake, shortbread cookies, ripe strawberries with some heavy cream and a little sugar - cutting the list short, lest I drown in my own drool! Have a blest and well-fed day!
Having grown up in Alabama and having married a southern belle that learned how to cook as a toddler, trust me, southern cooking is the best there is anywhere. Speaking of biscuits, a hot biscuit covered in thick sausage gravy, just the thought of it makes my mouth water. And chicken fried steak, milk gravy, fried okra, and pecan pie. Come to think about it, my wife has me spoiled. Southern cooking, no question about it, is in a league all its own.
I love you. My mother hailed from farm country in the back hills of Missouri. Hard-working poor people. Youngest of eight kids born in the family farm house. Biscuits were her favorite food. Every Sunday morning she would make biscuits and let us mix globs of real butter with molasses to slather over them. I am salivating at the memory.
P.S. She also mashed her potatoes with the "tetanus-covered farm instrument" you mentioned above.
Oh, Sean…..that list is pretty spot on except for the seafood….of which I am not a fan….but you forgot zipper peas!! I just canned 9 delicious pints yesterday to go with the previous 10 from Monday!! Peas and fresh corn!!! Nectar of the gods….with a side of German Johnson tomatoes!! ❤️❤️❤️
Sean, you’re speaking my language: FOOD! My MaMas biscuits were the best! I wish I still had her warped ole thin black biscuit pan she used. And I’d like to challenge you to the slice of apple pie with a melted piece of hoop cheese on top! I think you’d be surprised!
Spoken like a true Southern gentleman ❤️. Any man who loves good biscuits will know a good one when he has one! My favorite is a White Lily flour, buttermilk, and cold butter shaved into the dough! I love them buttered with jam, with white gravy with
sausage and eve cold with a big slice of garden tomato 🍅!
Not to be contentious, but I must make a small point: TexMex—note the “Tex”. For Texan. The overall consensus is that Texas is an entity unto itself. TexMex isn’t really Southern. I know it’s been adopted here, there, and yon,as have many types of cooking. But it isn’t really Southern. My opinion.
Carla, Mexico is as Southern as you can get, so... Give yourself over to the TexMex side. Smell the aromas. Embrace the clogged arteries. Drink the queso. You are not being contentious at all. Just deprived. Come to the carne...
Oh, Sean, your long list of favorite foods is a page right out of an old Southern Living magazine! Makes me hungry for any one of those BISCUITS you so well described!
My wife and I were just discussing this two days ago. We could not figure out why anyone would’ve ever tried melted cheese on top of apple pie.
Now, a freshly made from scratch Granny Smith apple pie, still warm from the oven, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, that’s a wonder to behold and a taste to savor, especially when it’s so darned hot outside.
And mashed potatoes with that slightly metallic flavor, definitely hard to beat.
I’d suggest your friend Hayden try substituting melted cheddar for some Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla or maybe Breyers Vanilla Bean and see what she thinks of that. Save the cheddar for the mashed potatoes.
Ooo hot apple pie with vanilla ice cream. Preach brother !
Blue Bell is swell!!!! Oh my!
Right, Lander. Cheese has its place, like toasted between two slices of heavily buttered Sunbeam bread, maybe with bacon added, or some of that Conecuh Sausage Sean wrote about.
It might be because apples and cheese have always been a great snack combination. Maybe they just carried it a little too far...
Nope. Cheddar cheese is the bomb
My daddy was an oyster man…he loved them. Mama would warm milk and butter over the stove and include those oysters…sorry ewww! She also made oyster dressing…on very lean years I remember her pointing out which side of the pan to get the dressing as the rest had those mollusks residing in nearby. 🤢 Of course my sister and I would pass! Haha. Sorry to say mama didn’t have the temperament for biscuits. Hers always came out like rocks, she’d laugh and daddy would just cover them with sticks of margarine and homemade jelly! Oh the memories…💕
First time I tried oysters they were fried in New Orleans. Still dream about those divine morsels.
A gracious good morning and happy Saturday to all yall. Preach brother Preach !
Finally, you write a column about a topic that I am an expert on. May I suggest that you should write another one covering some delicacies that you have neglected. Let me see the hands of those folks that can make biscuits from scratch. Boston Butt that's been smoked until you can wiggle the bone out of it. How about fresh caught crappie fresh fried in a black skillet over an open campfire on the river bank. Now here is a curveball, lobster, and steamers cooked by my cousin Jimmy in Castine Maine with fresh drawn butter and home made rolls and fresh blueberry pie ( which I will be enjoying in 3 weeks). See what I mean Sean. So raise your grilled peanut butter and banana samich in a toast to all those good things. I hafta wipe the drool off my screen. Yall have a splendiferous day and...
Peace
Yall have
Can’t believe he left off fried mullets (plural for you Earlisco), Key West Pink shrimps, grouper, red snapper, Spanish mackerel and fried corn breaaaayd either
Fried Mullet is the first thing I get when I visit my mom in Pensacola…..I bring home, to Denver..a pile of royal reds and grouper…..and let’s not forget Hoovers cornmeal…med grind for dressing and fine for hoecake.
The ending of your story once again gave me a chuckle 🤭 but however you did mention a few of my favorite foods and don’t forget the biscuits and gravy combo which is so very very good and now I’m hungry 🤣🤣 my dear friend I enjoyed this story as I enjoy all your stories keep them coming ☺️☺️☺️
You are from the South and did not mention TexMex? Not enchies or burritos or queso or anything that will set your innards on fire and completely clog your aorta? I am sorry, Sean, but we cannot be friends any longer. Unless you bring biscuits straight out of the oven. And beer.
It's easier to list the foods I can't stand. I think boiled okra stands at the top of the list. Slimy, disgusting stuff. My dad once told me, if I ate a piece of boiled okra, which at up to the age of 8, I had sense enough to avoid, we'd all go to the drive in - movie, don't you know. They had those things back then. I really wanted to go to the movies, so I picked one up by the tail, like I was about to eat a live fish, and dropped it into my mouth before my gag reflex could kick in. It went down - and it came back up - and shot across the table straight into the redeye gravy bowl. My brother fell off the chair, he laughed so hard. (Brothers! Born with a low sense of humor.) I was never asked to eat another piece of slimy - uh, boiled okra - and I have gone through life without any stress at all pretending the obnoxious stuff does not exist. (Uh - we still went to the movies.)
Now, fried okra I can do.
Often times a pot of cooked field peas you will find a few steamed okra pods.
Grate story TB!
Peb
Pone, kind er a mouth watering column, iffn I say so myself! Just a few corrections: it's Shrimps, not shrimp- cause you can't eat just one! And dem raw orsters- hepatitis on da hall shell! Finally, you missed one of the local favorites "Sister Schubert's Pigs in a Blanket and other assorted rolls - esp cinnamon!" Of I forgot- they quit makin dem last year and made up some pinwheel sausage rolls I thinks Dey imports from MOSCOW! "You'll eat it, and you'll like it dumkoff!" Talks about paving paradise and putting up a parking lot! Sing it Joni wid yo big yelled taxi!" Mebe Conecur sausage can pick up dere slack!
Finally Pone I saw dis today and had ter pass it along from Mr. David Cooper:
SUPPER CLUB
AT SWEETWATER BRANCH
Senior Thoughts
July 12th, 2024
*In America, it's "Believe it or not", but in Russia & China it is "Believe it or else".
*Propaganda is the other side's case put so convincingly that it annoys you.
*An open mind, like an open window, should be equipped with a screen to keep the bugs out.
*Nowadays people are like plants... some go to seed with age, and others go to pot.
*In this life, the old believes everything, the middle-age suspects everything, and the young knows everything.
*Some girls get married because they don't like spending evenings alone.... and then get a divorce for the same reason.
*Of all the home remedies, a good wife is the best!
David Cooper
Point Clear, Al.
Bon appetite Pone- sounded pea picking good!
Yo varmint wrangler,
Pubert Earle
Yo PEB ! I stopped by the Conecuh store just this week and had a Conecuh Dog. Good stuff.
Every time I travel down that I-65 Super-Slab my vehicle tries to steer itself off at Exit 96 to the Conecuh tourist trap and eatery. Love that artery-clogging stuff! My Drs. try, but i fear they have given up.
Incorporate melted cheese and most picky eaters will eat whatever. No one should have a problem with apple pie. Vanilla ice cream, whipped cream or sweet cream; by all means, yes! My dad would even pour cold milk (from our cow) over most fruit pies. Delicious!
Cheese on apple pie has its origin in England I’ve found. I would have guessed a trendy Julia Child French thing that was easily replicated in the humble American home. England is same country where black pudding, haggis and marmite are all the rage. I rest my case.
Just kidding, I follow Jamie Oliver, one of my favorite celebrity chefs. Today my grandsons are bringing blueberries from the other grandparents farm. So maybe a cobbler is in order. Sans the cheese.
So THAT'S why we fought the British twice!
😂
Do you ship your blueberry cobbler?
Dolores sounds like England is whar dey invented nauser! Talk about Barfeteria!
Peb
😂
I have been accused of a willingness to eat anything that doesn't move away fast enough, and swear it's good. That's not strictly true. I do not, will not, and never did eat chittlin's. Once you smell them cooking, all bets are off. Other than that, only oysters will never pass my lips again - only because of a particularly nasty allergy to them that results in hives the size of a silver dollar, vicious intestinal cramps, and other symptoms not fit to mention. I love my food and thank the Lord daily for functioning taste buds. Good fried chicken, fresh greens cooked with a country ham hock, crisp hickory smoked bacon with an over-easy egg, biscuits and sausage gravy on the side, homemade pound cake, shortbread cookies, ripe strawberries with some heavy cream and a little sugar - cutting the list short, lest I drown in my own drool! Have a blest and well-fed day!
Linda, I've been known to drowned in my own drool when talking about certain foods.
Having grown up in Alabama and having married a southern belle that learned how to cook as a toddler, trust me, southern cooking is the best there is anywhere. Speaking of biscuits, a hot biscuit covered in thick sausage gravy, just the thought of it makes my mouth water. And chicken fried steak, milk gravy, fried okra, and pecan pie. Come to think about it, my wife has me spoiled. Southern cooking, no question about it, is in a league all its own.
Ooo chicken fried steak. Yes please.
LOL
Well……..I want to go to Mississippi for the light and fluffy biscuits…..who doesn’t like heavenly? A fun food journey, tastefully shared!
Me too, Cindy! I am not even a biscuit lover but the Mississippi biscuit sounds worth a road trip!
Enticing…..ain’t it? 😆
I love you. My mother hailed from farm country in the back hills of Missouri. Hard-working poor people. Youngest of eight kids born in the family farm house. Biscuits were her favorite food. Every Sunday morning she would make biscuits and let us mix globs of real butter with molasses to slather over them. I am salivating at the memory.
P.S. She also mashed her potatoes with the "tetanus-covered farm instrument" you mentioned above.
Oh, Sean…..that list is pretty spot on except for the seafood….of which I am not a fan….but you forgot zipper peas!! I just canned 9 delicious pints yesterday to go with the previous 10 from Monday!! Peas and fresh corn!!! Nectar of the gods….with a side of German Johnson tomatoes!! ❤️❤️❤️
Sean, you’re speaking my language: FOOD! My MaMas biscuits were the best! I wish I still had her warped ole thin black biscuit pan she used. And I’d like to challenge you to the slice of apple pie with a melted piece of hoop cheese on top! I think you’d be surprised!
I have my grandmother's super-thin wood handled spatula, which I use every day. Best ever.
Oh my goodness, linda! I have my mother's super thin wood handled spatula.
Lucky us!
Indeed, Linda! 🤗❤️💔
Spoken like a true Southern gentleman ❤️. Any man who loves good biscuits will know a good one when he has one! My favorite is a White Lily flour, buttermilk, and cold butter shaved into the dough! I love them buttered with jam, with white gravy with
sausage and eve cold with a big slice of garden tomato 🍅!
Your piece is delightful as always!
Sounds good to me PM!
Pu
I'm with you on that, Patricia. I like cheddar cheese on hot apple pie. But I also like vanilla ice cream on hot apple pie.
Disappointed macaroni and cheese (Kraft Dinner or KD as it’s known up here above the 49th parallel) didn’t make your list.
I was willing to overlook that omission because Sean was recently stung to death by ants. But I cannot forgive him omitting TexMex. Lord have mercy.
Not to be contentious, but I must make a small point: TexMex—note the “Tex”. For Texan. The overall consensus is that Texas is an entity unto itself. TexMex isn’t really Southern. I know it’s been adopted here, there, and yon,as have many types of cooking. But it isn’t really Southern. My opinion.
Carla, Mexico is as Southern as you can get, so... Give yourself over to the TexMex side. Smell the aromas. Embrace the clogged arteries. Drink the queso. You are not being contentious at all. Just deprived. Come to the carne...
Oh, Sean, your long list of favorite foods is a page right out of an old Southern Living magazine! Makes me hungry for any one of those BISCUITS you so well described!