Poor folks supper

[Hunting Wife]

Never heard that term, but I just got home from working out in the snow all day, and it sounds fantastic!

My mom did make this occasionally when we were kids but she just called it beans and cornbread.

 

[np307]

Not just any raw onion. Vidalia sweet.

This was a strong Walmart yellar

 

[mtmuley]

This was a strong Walmart yellar

I think a lot of people that dislike onions eat the wrong ones, and/or cook them incorrectly. mtmuley

 

[np307]

I think a lot of people that dislike onions eat the wrong ones, and/or cook them incorrectly. mtmuley

Probably so. I'll eat onions just about any way they come though. Vidalia would've definitely been better here. Yellows seem to last a lot better though so I usually have one around.

 

[Hunt West]

We ate this often growing up, usually at least once a week and on Sundays. The leftover cornbread and milk were typically breakfast the next morning.

 

[np307]

Never heard that term, but I just got home from working out in the snow all day, and it sounds fantastic!

My mom did make this occasionally when we were kids but she just called it beans and cornbread.

Not every time it snowed, but I remember us having this in the snow several times as a kid. The other snow meal was chicken and dumplings. And of course, since we're in the south, milk sammiches.

 

[Hunting Wife]

Not every time it snowed, but I remember us having this in the snow several times as a kid. The other snow meal was chicken and dumplings. And of course, since we're in the south, milk sammiches.

Geez Louise. I’ve heard of all kinds of sammies but not that one. What is a milk sammich, for those of us less cultured folks around here? This is like that pig cake @Wildabeest had to explain to me.

 

[Moserkr]

Interesting meal, never heard of it being called that. I make a mean ham n bean soup and damn good cornbread though. But I keep a large stash of dry pinto beans in the shtf fan supply, along with rice and flour. Cornmeal sounds like a nice addition to the stash. Id assume you want butter or honey with cornbread, or its definitely being eaten with beans for me.

 

[D_Walt]

That's the one.

We had beans and cornbread almost every Wednesday night as a kid. Never heard it called anything but beans and cornbread though. Still one of my favorite meals.

 

[Moserkr]

Yes please explain milk sammich too. Thats a new one.

 

[Gellar]

I think a lot of people that dislike onions eat the wrong ones, and/or cook them incorrectly. mtmuley

My wife claims it’s the texture of raw onions and not the taste. She eats foods with cooked onion in it.

 

[Hem]

" Big Two- Hearted River" Nick Adam's special was an onion sandwich. I use to make these as a kid when I went fishing.

 

[Caseknife]

Oh yeah, my Mom liked cheese and onion sandwiches and that was before Walla Walla Sweets or Vidalia were around.

 

[buckbull]

Ham and beans with cornbread was served at our house on a regular basis. Sometimes the ham only consisted of the bone. I still make it myself about once per month.

 

[Bluffgruff]

The beans were always black-eyed or iron and clay or something like that at our house, but I suspect that was preference from my mom and dad. Also, I never once heard of anyone I knew eating cornbread and milk, but my wife says its an ubiquitous southern thing. I grew up in the deeeeeep ag south, and was middle class.

 

[Wildabeest]

My mom called it “comfort food”. Same stuff, different marketing.

 

[np307]

Geez Louise. I’ve heard of all kinds of sammies but not that one. What is a milk sammich, for those of us less cultured folks around here? This is like that pig cake @Wildabeest had to explain to me.

Yes please explain milk sammich too. Thats a new one.

A milk sammich is a mythical food. At even the slightest hint of snow, everyone around here flocks to the grocery store and cleans them out of milk, bread, and eggs. So over time, people started poking fun at this tradition by just saying that we eat milk sammiches when it snows.

 

[tarheel]

Never knew of chow-chow before. Mrs kansasdad has started a dive down the chow-chow rabbit hole, I see this in my future.


Southern kimchi?

If it's made right you won't be sorry.

 

[tarheel]

Saw this crossing my yard during the last snow.

 

[np307]

The beans were always black-eyed or iron and clay or something like that at our house, but I suspect that was preference from my mom and dad. Also, I never once heard of anyone I knew eating cornbread and milk, but my wife says its an ubiquitous southern thing. I grew up in the deeeeeep ag south, and was middle class.

Cornbread and buttermilk for the old timers