Southern Folks I Need Your Help?!
Southern Folks I Need Your Help?
Inlaws coming to dinner from Missouri and hubby wants me to make chicken and dumplings, which I know how to make, but don't have a clue what goes with it. I want to impress.....so any one from around that area who can tell me what should really go with this meal? Also what type of desert I should make?
Answers:
I am from the South. We always have mashed potatoes and sometimes green beans cooked with cured side meat. Be sure to make biscuits, but I think that is overkill, because you already have all of those dumplings. However, a good Southerner won't pass up a good biscuit with butter and/or applesauce (or sorghum or honey).
For dessert, I would recommend either peach cobbler or banana pudding.
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Here is an easy biscuit recipe:
Easy Biscuits
Ingredients:
2 cups self rising flour
2 cups whipping cream
(Want a smaller quantity, use 1 cup self rising flour and 1 cup of whipping cream. Want more, use 2 cups of each. Whatever you measure for the flour, use the same amount of whipping cream)
Stir flour and whipping cream with a fork until combined. Roll out just like you would any other biscuit. Cut. Place on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 450 degrees until browned.
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This is the banana pudding my family has been making for over 60 years! This is the old fashioned kind!
Mama’s Banana Pudding
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 cups milk
2 eggs, separated
1 tsp vanilla
36 vanilla wafers
3 medium bananas
Blend sugar, flour, and salt. Add 1/2 cup milk, stirring until smooth. Add remaining milk, mixing thoroughly. Beat egg yolks slightly and add to mixture. Cook over medium heat until thickened. Remove from heat. Add vanilla.
Make a layer of wafers, one of bananas and cover with custard. Repeat until all of the wafers, bananas, and custard are used.
Meringue:
Beat egg whites until stiff. Add 1/4 cup sugar, beating constantly. Spread meringue over the custard and brown in the oven. Serve warm or chilled.
6-8 Servings
I would serve fresh tomato and cucumber slices, and fried yellow squash...and Mississippi Mud Pie for dessert (um, two s's).
I'm not from the south, but on visits I've typically had little else with the meal. I've had corn or okra, but sometimes no vegetable at all. In terms of desert, I'm sorry, I typically skip desert. It is tough to beat a good chicken and dumplins' meal though.
Go with Kat's suggestion and add chocolate cake for desert with French vanilla ice cream.
Slice up fresh tomatoes, radishes and onions. Really nothing should be served with c & d but this would work.
make some cornbread. a good chickn-n-dumplins meal is just the main course and maybe some bread. if you insist on sides, i would say corn (not on the cob).
for dessert, peach cobbler (make sure it's cobbler, not pie), with vanilla ice cream as an optional topper.
My sister in law here in North Carolina makes chicken and dumplings and has white rice, mashed potatoes, small green peas, frozen collards with ham chunks, macaroni and cheese with a can of seasoned diced tomatoes (discard the juice) biscuits with butter, some people make corn bread or hush puupies, Banana Pudding with sliced bananas and nilla wafers and whipped topping or a strawberry short cake with whipped topping.
Chicken and dumplings are great by themselves!! , just garnish with fresh herbs like parsley and oregano. You can also top the dumplings with some small cubed fresh tomatoes and herbs. Add a couple of pieces of garlic-roasted bread to the side and Voila!..... it is a simple dish , do not over do it!
If southerns is the call... you need some corn bread and biscuits in the table.... don't forget the butter!
A fresh fruit pie is ideal ( apple or berries) , not too sweet!
Cornbread, for sure, if not, than biscuits. And you need vegetables too...corn or something green. Blackeyed peas are also popular in the South, but I'm not sure about in Missouri!
we usually just have it and creamed sweet corn!
im from south georgia and we know southren cooking you can make corn bread collard greens and some sweet tea and that will work for the main course and for dessert bake a peach or cherry cobbler or a apple pie and you will win there hearts over.