Redneck Cuisine

1. The art of taking basic ingredients that just about everybody has on hand and cooking food that would make the world's best chef, with his/her unlimited access to the world's most exotic foods and spices, jealous.
2. See definition #1.

Guess you could tell that definition ain't really from a dictionary, but at least that's what "Redneck Cuisine" means to me.

It's like our "Florida Cracker Fish Fry". Since the fish is already caught and on hand, all you need is the corn meal, grits, canned pork and beans, salt, and black pepper. Well...and maybe a couple fresh onions for the hush puppies and to eat raw with the fish. Oh yeah...did I mention cold beer. Guess that list is getting a little longer than I thought, but you gotta have cold beer for the grownups and maybe some soda waters for the kids. Oh well, it still ain't a lot considering the meal.

I remember my wife's Granny Birdsong. She was born, raised, lived, and died on the same piece of land in Christmas, Florida. There were a lot of things that woman did without, but good food wasn't one of them. She never had air conditioning, but she always had enough flour to make dumplings to go with the chicken that was raised right there on her property. You had to go outside where it was a little cooler to eat, but I'm here to tell you that it was the best chicken and dumplings in the world.

RedneckCuisine.com has recently been redesigned, including a new recipe script and database. Kinda thinking about turning this site into a project with the goal of having a hard copy version of a "Redneck Cuisine Cookbook" published someday with user uploaded recipes. If that happens and you have a recipe that is chosen for the book, I'll be contacting you for permission to use it.

One more thing...I'm not much of a blogger as you can probably tell from my story above. Anyone that has a story and wants it posted here can send it to: webmaster@redneckcuisine.com. I'll gladly get it posted.

Thanks,
Rick Carroll,
webmaster
RedneckCuisine.com