Missouri Favorite Foods (St. Louis, Springfield, Joplin: neighborhood, oil, kitchen)

[Cali BassMan]

Well my favorite Aunt (rip) always made me Chicken and Dumplings when ever I visited........

[da jammer]

my fav 'round here has to be the butt kickin' Mexican food I chef up in me very own kitchen onna regular basis

[bentaxlecrew]

I made enchilada's tonight! Chicken enchiladas. My daughters favriot.

I absolutly hate enchiladas!! I love tacos though!!

[Lake Junkie]

Originally Posted by da jammer

my fav 'round here has to be the butt kickin' Mexican food I chef up in me very own kitchen onna regular basis

What time's dinner? Er, I guess we should call it supper...



I'll bring the wine...

[gptaz]

My wife and I are from the NE part of the state. I am from La Plata and she was raised in South Gifford. Try to find that town.
We moved out of state in 1961 but we and our sons love to get back for breaded pork tenderlion sandwiches. Of course they are fried!!!

[mrsgenealogy]

Originally Posted by da jammer

I looked up that lutefisk..... sorry but ahh ...no thanks!!

Great pic, jammer! I lol'd at that one!

Originally Posted by slahgirl

Also, don't forget the Sundrop. I have never seen it sold anywhere else but Missouri.

Sundrop? Nope. Never heard o' that one! What is it?

Originally Posted by sheila52

As a fairly new Springfield, Mo resident, I have to say Lake Junkie gave a perfect explanation of Cashew Chicken Springfield Style. It is quite a shock to the newcomer. My husband and I couldn't finish our first (and last) CC experience. I hope I don't offend everyone who loves this, but I'll just take my fried chicken "southern" style. If you are curious, there're recipes online which claim to be the authenic version.

I'm with you, Sheila! I'm gonna have to go to Mr. Yen's soon! Ya know, I suppose I could look up those recipes. Any suggested websites?

Originally Posted by bentaxlecrew

I love Oriental food so much! I shoulda been Chinese or Vietnamese or Japanese! I get hungry sometimes and all I need is a bowl of rice and some soy. Good to go.

Hey, Bent! Have you tried Mondu? I don't know if I've spelled that right. My husband started bringing it home a few months ago and I'm hooked! If you have, maybe you can do a better job than I can of telling these fine folks what it is! Hahaha!

Originally Posted by Plains10

A BBQ beef sandwich at many of the local Missouri restaurants are quite good. In the KC metro Zarda BBQ is very good.

They DO know how to BBQ in this fine state! We never DID find a good BBQ place that we liked out in CA.

Originally Posted by Plains10

Wow, my posts have almost been read 100,000 times!

Well, don't look now, Plains...but you're waaaay over that now!!!

Originally Posted by Plains10

Pecan Pie is the greatest! Yum!
Another favorite of mine is Blackberry Pie!
I love all of the small town restaurants that serve pie!

You've gone and done it, now! Delicious pie in a small town restaurant! It doesn't get any more wonderful or American than THAT!!!

[mrsgenealogy]

Originally Posted by Northwoods Voyager

My cousins and I would spend time with my paternal grandparents and in the late evening they would fix us a dish of milk with fresh bread broken into pieces and then add a teaspoon or so of sugar. Found a few other people that said they had the same thing, but that was eons ago.

Anyone else have anything at all similar to that?

When I was growing up, my Missouri-born-and-raised mother used to break up cornbread into a glass of buttermilk and eat it! She also cooked tomatoes and added a little salt and some sugar and broke bread up into them and ate them warm. I didn't care much for them then but I've made something similar as an adult and it's actually quite yummy!

I just called her and she said that they often had that dish you spoke of...warm "sweet milk" with bread or sometimes crackers and sugar added. She said that living on a farm, the biscuits or bread in those days was almost always homemade. She added that her mother (my grandmother) called yeast bread "light bread", whether it was homemade or store bought.

She said that when she was growing up, the family would drive 10 miles into Columbia to drive up and down the streets to sell their eggs, butter and fresh produce and they would stop at the store to buy bread and lunchmeat or cheese and crackers and often sit on the steps of the courthouse to eat their lunches. We talked about how that must have been the closest thing to "fast food" in those days! Cute scene, huh?

That's one of the things I love about genealogy. I get to have these sorts of conversations with my parents. Thanks for giving me another opportunity, Voyager!

[jdslady]

All these posts bring back alot of memories.... the bread, milk and sugar, the crackers and milk....the tomatoes and bread and sugar... makes me think back many many many years ago to when I was a little girl !! And hubby always talked about gooseberry pie. Never heard of it before. Found it a month or so ago at a little cafe in downtown Branson.... course he had to have it. HE can have all he wants..I'll stick with pecan or strawberry rhubarb!!

[mrsgenealogy]

Originally Posted by jdslady

All these posts bring back alot of memories.... the bread, milk and sugar, the crackers and milk....the tomatoes and bread and sugar... makes me think back many many many years ago to when I was a little girl !! And hubby always talked about gooseberry pie. Never heard of it before. Found it a month or so ago at a little cafe in downtown Branson.... course he had to have it. HE can have all he wants..I'll stick with pecan or strawberry rhubarb!!

Yessss! Gooseberry pie!!! One of the things I remember most about my grandmother was her cobblers!!! She made every kind but gooseberry was one of my favorites! It may be an acquired taste because it is so tart but since I first had it as a child, I didn't know that! Hahaha! If I were to have it today, I would probably want more sugar! I only remember that her cobblers were tangy and sweet and her crusts were off-the-charts!!!

Gooseberries grew on my grandmother's farm so they were plentiful. She was only about 4'10 and was like a little roly poly. I sure do miss her! Thanks backatcha for the memories, jdslady!

So, did your husband like the pie? And if so, can you remember the restaurant's name?

[bentaxlecrew]

I don,t know what mondu is. Do tell. Mrs G.