Party Food / Fried Dill Pickles and dipping sauce recipes

A fried pickle is a snack item found commonly in the American South. It is made by deep-frying a sliced battered dill pickle. Great Party Food!

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Example of Fried Dill Pickle Recipe

• 1 qt. sliced dill pickles - sliced long or slice round
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 c. milk
• 1 tbsp. flour
• 1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
• 6 drops hot sauce
• 3/4 tsp. salt
• 3/4 tsp. pepper
• 3 1/2 c. flour
• Dried dill for seasoning
• Vegetable oil for deep frying

Combine first 5 ingredients, stirring well. Set aside. Combine 3 1/2 cups flour, salt and pepper, stirring well. Dip pickles in milk mixture and dredge in flour mixture, repeat process. Deep fry in hot oil, 350 degrees until pickles float to surface and are golden brown. Drain on paper towels.

Sprinkle with Dried dill to your liking.

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Do you want Breading?

• 2 1/2 cups cornmeal
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup lemon pepper
• 1/2 cup dill weed
• 4 teaspoons paprika
• 2 teaspoons garlic salt
• Pinch cayenne pepper, or more to taste

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What-ah-ya Dip!

• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 3 tablespoons minced parsley leaves
• 2 tablespoons chopped green onion
• 1 1/2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
• 2 teaspoons freshly ground pepper
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• 1/2 garlic clove, minced
• 1/3 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 3 tablespoons catchup
• 3 tablespoons BBQ sauce
• Mayonnaise to thicken (at least 1/4 cup)

In a large mixing bowl, stir all ingredients together, Add mayonnaise, as needed, to thicken. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

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RANCH DIP FOR VEGGIES OR CHIPS

• 1 pkg. Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing mix
• 1 c. sour cream
• 1/2 c. mayonnaise
• 1 1/2 c. cottage cheese

Mix well and use for vegetable dip or with chips.

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📅 November 14 is National Pickle Day

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My favorite Breakfast is a Barbecue Breakfast

A "Barbecue Breakfast" can refer to any meat cooked on the grill, sauced or not sauced - The most common meaning for a "barbecue breakfast" refers to pulled pork that's been grilled or smoked and served with BBQ sauce on top (or warmed inside the meat after it's been pulled). This meat is then served as part of a hearty breakfast.

What is a Barbecue Breakfast?

Barbecue for Breakfast?  Absolutely! In fact, it's common fair in the south, especially for a big hearty breakfast. Take a look at the photo above by cchapman /flicker.com. This is a perfect example of a hearty barbecue breakfast. Rich pulled pork fills the plate with sauce drizzled on top of the meat. What kind of sauce is that in the photo? It could be catchup, or it could be a type of barbecue sauce. Barbecue sauce is the traditional sauce for a BBQ Breakfast. Scrambled eggs and home fries (also called cottage fries) are on the plate as well. To the right of the plate is what?! Another plate! Yep, it's another plate of big fat fluffy biscuits and gravy. Can it get any better than this? I-don't-think-so!

Along with the wonderful items shown in the photo; grilled caramelized onions, cooked buttered mushrooms, grilled tomatoes (when in season), baked beans or pork-n-beans and even cheese grits are all common fair for a "Barbecue Breakfast" too.

Barbecue Breakfast is; the American south's comparison to the Full English / Full Irish Breakfast which is also known to include beans, mushroom and tomatoes.  Cheese flavored grits go great with a barbecue breakfast along with potato cheese casserole which is also a favorite in the north. The first choice for bread is Buttermilk biscuits, where toast may be preferred in the north. 

If you would like to see how homemade buttermilk biscuits are made "by hand" and not with a biscuit cutter or rolling pin, then watch this video of my Mother / 2nd film if 1st doesn't work making biscuits years ago / back in 2007. Everyone always asks me for this video link so I post it where I can. She will show you exactly how to make them!

We find that there are several favorites

when it comes to barbecue for breakfast.

• Pork: The first pick for a barbecue breakfast is usually pork meat and it's usually smoked and pulled pork as well. Smoked pulled pork seems to flavor well with scrambled eggs or fried eggs and home fries. Smoked pulled pork is even a favorite in homemade buttermilk biscuits, eaten like a sandwich right along with a full breakfast. It can be eating with or without sauce. Pork chops are also a favorite grilled breakfast food.
  
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• Sausage: Running in second place is BBQ pork sausage. The sausage is best when grilled with special barbecue sauce until it has caramelized on the sausage. Any type of sausage is popular but pork tends to be the common ingredient in sausage anyway. Sausage can be eating with or without sauce but lightly sauced is usually the breakfast choice. Grilled caramelized onions are always cooked along side grilled sausage for breakfast. If the sausage heavily spiced, you may want to go light on the barbecue sauce or not at all. But, you musttt grill those sausages for that char flavor. Some home cooks like to score the sausage with little xxxx, or even slice the sausage in-two- so the sauce will stay on the sausage better. This is obviously a matter of choice because many cooks will tells you not to do that because to much of the taste will escape out of the sausage. Others say it's better to get rid of some of the fat anyway. Try it both ways and you decide.
  
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• Grilled Steak: You can't beat steak and eggs for breakfast and if you've never had grilled barbecued steak for breakfast then your in for a real treat! You can grill the meat with barbecue sauce until it caramelizes or without barbecue sauce but with a bit of butter on top. The egg of choice is fried eggs over medium but omelets or scrambled style tastes fantastic too! (see scrambled egg dishes) for great ideas.
  
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• Bologna: Even bologna is grilled! Yep, I said b-o-l-o-b-n-a!  You can buy bologna is long rolls where you can cut it any serving size you like. Bologna is usually cut steak slice style then cross cut with smaller cuts on the top so it hold in the barbecue sauce between the cuts as it grills. Flamed charred edges taste really good. Bologna can be cooked with or without sauce. Delishioussssss for breakfast!
  
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• Fish: The 4th barbecue breakfast favorite is barbecue fish!  Salt and peppered then basted with a mix of lemon, butter, touch of garlic and barbecue sauce, all mix up together and tossed on the grill. My Uncle Gerald loved to grill fish with barbecue sauce! Fried catfish is also a favorite for breakfast in the south. Old timers will always eat fish for breakfast only if they have fish gravy to go along with it. Now this is not the normal gravy that you think of. Fish gravy is actually cornmeal, salt, pepper and oil cooked together in a cast iron skillet until it is very very brown and gritty, just like a spread more than a gravy. Spread it on a biscuit eaten with a piece of fish and your in heaven. My gradmother loved to eat it that way and she passed on the aquired taste to me as well. Put some fried eggs on the side and I'm as happy as a pig in mud!
  
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• Ham is also a favorite all over the country -but it's never served with barbecue sauce on top.

To Sauce or Not to Sauce?

That's a matter of taste and a matter of which cooking method your use to actually. Any smoked meat taste great for breakfast and is popular all over the United States but not as prevalent as it is in the south. Meat served with sauce on top or meat cooked with sauce is not as popular but tends to be a favorite in the southern United States. Many people in the U.S. loves to eat catchup with their eggs and many many people love to shake hot pepper sauce on their eggs, hash browns and home fries. It only makes sense that barbecued sauced meat be added to the list of breakfast foods.

Note: A Hearty Barbecue Breakfast is served for a supper meal as well.

It's common for people in the South to eat breakfast for supper so it's not uncommon at all to eat BBQ with their "breakfast supper". It's also common for people in the north to put pulled BBQ pork over rice along with eggs and toast.

*Great choice for a BBQ Brunch too!  

Closing Thoughts ~

If you've never pulled together a BBQ breakfast before I wish you would try it for one of your next holiday get-togethers.

You might just like it. "Live Everyday like a Holiday". Pam

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📅 May / National Barbecue Month

📅 September / National Breakfast Month

📅 August / National Sandwich Month

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Munch for Lunch / Green Beans, ham, potatoes, onion and cornbread

 Yesterday I shared a clip of my green beans cooking... 

and I talked about fresh green beans. Today I wanted to share pictures of my "Munch for Lunch", my green bean complete meal so you could see the whole plate. This meal was my Super Sunday Supper and the left overs because my "Munch for Lunch." LOL

Now I want to share a link with you. 

I actually filmed a video of this meal being cooked if you would like to go and watch me make it. I made the whole meal in 1 pot. Yep, a true 1 pot meal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRWAeDioN1w&t=45s

Photo angles

I took several angles of the same plate so you could get a good look of my "Munch for Lunch" I call this recipe my "Sweet Heat Green Beans." Why? Because it's sweet from a tad bit of honey and it has heat because of the peppers.

You can tell this meal has everything you need for a complete meal. 

It has ham for the meat, it has healthy green beans, it has onion for a vegetable and it has beautiful brown bottom potatoes and last but not least... for the bread, I made southern cornbread.

Browning the potatoes

Now if you watch the video you will be able to see how I was able to brown the potatoes for a 1 pot meal. The key is cooking the meal in a flat pan. That way you can slice the potatoes in half, then press the flat side of the potato in the bottom of the pan.

Cornbread to taste

Anytime I cook ham and beans I always want soft on the inside and really crispy cornbread on the outside for my bread. Now since my beans have a hint of sweetness to it, because of the honey... I choose to cook a savory cornbread instead of a sweet cornbread.

Butter on the bread

I don't know about you, but my mouth says I need lot's of real white butter on my cornbread. You can see from this picture that the cornbread was still hot and had started slightly melting the butter and it was soaking into the cornbread. Yummmm!

I really enjoyed this Southern Meal!

I have to tell you that this meal was very satisfying when it came to taste.  The grease in the ham seasoned the beans and potatoes just perfect and allowed the potatoes to brown even in a pan that had water in it. It was also satisfying from it's beautiful colors.  It had a beautiful circle of different food colors all around the plate that would be a nice visual effect if you had dinner guests.

In Closing...

Thank you for being with me today as I shared my "Munch for Lunch." Remember that anytime you visit this website you will be able to find my latest Munch for Lunch in the right hand sidebar under the title " Popular Topics" then you will see "Munch for Lunch." Just click it and it will take you to my latest lunch post.

If you want to see my latest "Super Sunday Supper".... same directions. Right hand sidebar, except it's under "Weekly Fun", then "Super Sunday Supper" ~Wink~  Love, Pam

What's Your Favorite Greasy Food?

Fried Pork Chop

We can't celebrate National Greasy Food Day without talking about our favorite greasy foods now can we? Noooo.... in fact I'm excited to talk about greasy foods. Why I'm a greasy food foodie from way back! 

Being from the south, I was raised on a lot of greasy foods. Now don't have a grease panic ok. I thought I would go through my favorites and I hope you tell me your favorites too. 

Buttermilk fried chicken! 
We ate buttermilk fried chicken all the time and I do mean all the time. If it wasn't at our house it was at one of my Aunts house. They loved to cook it on Sundays. In fact the Sunday meal was the biggest meal of the week and if fried chicken was on the menu you would see the biggest platter of fried chicken you've ever seen. 

We all went to Sunday school and preaching first. But the whole time there all I could think about was the meal that was to come. I use to get in trouble from my Mother when she would catch me drawing pictures of chicken wings and drumsticks during preaching. No kidding! I was even a foodie as a kid. wink~

Fried pork chops were a real favorite of mine. 
Mother would fry them up in about a 1/2 inch of grease. Give me 2 pieces of bread, catchup and my fried pork chop and I was one happy kid. 

Let's talk about french fries. 
Well we know the whole world loves deep fried fries and I say the crispier the better so why not double dunk those babies and cook them twice. You know they go with everything so we ate them with everything. (hamburgers, hamburger steak, hot dogs, chicken fingers, fish sticks)

Hamburger Steak with onions
 I requested this one a lot. I loved fried hamburger steak and the onion gravy that Mother made in the hamburger grease was delishious to say the least. She always served it with big fat french fries too. I liked this meal much better than the fried liver and onions that hit the table sometimes. Yulk!

Now let me mention the big one... fried fish. 
We were raised on the river and you know what that means without me even saying. Daddy had trot-lines out everywhere so every week I would run the lines with Daddy. Then Daddy would clean a lot of fish and Mother had to cook a lot of fish. That means we ate a lot of fried fish. LOL! Mostly deep fried catfish. Nannie (my grandmother) would pan fry up cornmeal grit gravy to go with it. For those that don't know what that is; it's cornmeal cooked in the oil of the fried fish. You pan fry it dark dark brown in a lot of lard if there's no fishy oil left. It looks like a gritty greasy paste when it's finished (it's an acquired taste) (us kids sometimes called it sand) but ohhhh myyyy goshhhh to spread it on soft white bread then eat it with my fish was heaven. 

It was my Nannies favorite too. She always ate it with brim. I didn't eat brim so my grandmother and Mother both would happily cook me battered and fried bass. We ate deep fried fish and gritty gravy for breakfast all the time. Mother would cook homemade biscuits to go with it. Now that I think about it, I could just about say that every meal had something fried in it. Mother put fried bacon in everything too. lol!

Oh Gosh I can't leave out dessert!
Nothing could compare to Mother's fried apple pies! We would pick the apples off 6 apple trees in the garden and Mother would make homemade fried apple pies. I loved watching Mother roll out the dough. Holding a hot apple pie in your hand then licking your fingers off when finished was a cinnamon delight.
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Ahhh those were the days!
Now that I'm older..... I do eat healthier. Greasy foods don't like me as well as they did as a child. But nothing tasted better than fried food in my opinion. I no longer eat it every single day. No, sadly I only eat it fried meat about once a week. (oh let's not count the french fries because I do eat those more than I should. lol)
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