American southern food - what goes with pork roast in gravy?!

We have alot of sides, and yes pork roast in a brown gravy can be traditionally southern. I'd think more something like meatloaf, fried chicken, or a ham but I do make this here and there as well.

Southern dishes tend to leave room open so that virtually anything goes with them, but mainly you'll find these at a southern table :corn on the cob, macaroni salad, mashed potatoes, sugarpea salad, deviled eggs, baked beans, greens, potato salad, macaroni and cheese (homemade and baked), fried squash, some kind of casserole (can be green bean, squash, or potato (also this is generally one of the most served side dishes)), fried okra (I hate okra....), black eyed peas (with ham), and last but not least....a general garden salad.

We don't really eat cornbread with every meal unless it includes beans or some kind of chowder or soup, but with every meal there will be buttermilk biscuits. Sweet tea is what you'll always find as the number 1 drink and as for dessert? It's always going to be a pie or a cobbler.

If you're wanted some kind of updated southern meal, put a spin on alot of those dishes (like for corn on the cob, I season mine with cajun seasoning, garlic, and butter then wrap and roast in the oven...get my meaning?). Also, if you're going to make cornbread, remember that while you buy it in the stores sweet, we generally don't make it from scratch sweet at all...and we also use a skillet to bake it. However, if you did want to incorporate it in as a side dish instead of the bread dish, my mothers side makes these amazing cornbread pancakes with onions that are sweet and too thin to be the bread of the meal. There's alot of recipes online for them :)

myself, and a family from the south that tends to stick to their old ways...

not so sure about pork roast in gravy
BBQ pork is... Pulled pork is...you can make pulled pork using 3-4 lbs of pork loin or use 4-5 lb pork roast.

(2) Onions (sliced)
Place in bottom of slow cooker
add your meat
add 5-6 whole cloves
and (2) cups of water
Cook on Low for 8-12 hours
remove meat from bone (if there is one)
Drain liquid

Return to slow cooker
add another onion (chopped)
add 16 oz. bottle of BBQ sauce
Cover cook on high another 1-3 hours.

Serve on hamburger buns.

sides...have some good ones listed above.
collard greens, uh- no...it is a southern dish...but not sure that's something everyone will like.

Kale is good if its cooked in a pan (you need a lot cause it cooks down) with chopped garlic

Cornbread is NOT gay...but so dang good.
coleslaw
corn on the cob
apple pie

"Fix it and Forget it" cookbook. there are other recipes on pg. 148 for BBQ Pork... but then again, pork roast and gravy sounds tasty.

I don't know about pork roast in gravy. But chicken fried steak (or chicken) and gravy is a southern food. Corn on the cob, fried okra, black eyed peas, biscuits, fried green tomatoes, green beans, mashed potatoes, and baked beans are all sides that could go with it. Dessert could be apple pie, banana pudding, peach or blackberry cobbler, or pecan pie. And if you're going to make a Southern meal you have to have sweet tea to drink.

Lots of southern relatives, and lived in the south my entire life.

As you said cornbread and do corn on the cob, mashed potatoes,butter beans or lima beans, buttered carrots and for desert maybe an apple pie and for drinks make some old fashioned iced tea. Let them sweeten it themselves because some like sugar and some like sugar substitute. Otherwise for real southerners it is sweet tea with good ole' sugar.

sauerkraut
fried potatoes
indian corn
yellow corn
coleslaw
creamed spinach
deep fried okra
deep fried green beans

poached in syrup & cinnamon granny apples
carrot cake
streudel


lemonade, sweet iced tea

Mashed potatoes, biscuits, green beans cooked with fatback, corn on the cob, sweet tea, sweet potato pie, berry cobbler.

Mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes, black-eyed peas, collard greens or mustard greens. Now I am hungry. Sounds great.

Apple sauce and "Macaroni & cheese"....

Corn bread is gay. Go with potatoes or mushrooms