What is your Favorite NC or Southern Dish? (Burlington, Smithfield: food, best)

[Niagemini]

barbque ( Honey!!! when I first came to NJ I was shocked to see what they thought barbque was. I am talking about the pulled pork with crushed red pepper and vinegar)

Sweet potato bread
Collard Greens
smothered Chicken
Sweet Tea
Turnip Salad
Hush Puppies

I think I am going home to do some cooking tonight!!

[cynwldkat]

I am living in Stanly County but could drive a distance for good food!!

[autumngal]

Well hopefully somebody will have a reply with someplace for ya that's a tad closer than where I am up in Granville County,

[dsobotta]

Originally Posted by SunnyKayak

Love for the locals and newcomers to this state to share what they have experience in North Carolina and Southern dishes. If you find it a certain restaurant feel free to share that as well.

These are some of my favorite foods with recipes.

Perfect Cornbread and recipe for it.

My Mother's Fried Chicken.

Closest fried chicken like it, East Bend Dinette.

A good substitute with some more room and a nice trip, The Homeplace, Catawba, Va.

Pan Fried Flounder

Slaw from fresh mountain cabbage

Our family recipe hush puppies to go with the Flounder and Slaw.

Pimento Cheese

Tomato sandwich

Southern Style Vegetarian Baked Beans

Country Ham at The Cookhouse, Cornelius

Pork Chop Sandwich Snappy Lunch

Fried Oyster Salad, Goobers, Mount Airy, NC

Home grilled chicken which I have been doing since I was a Boy Scout living near Winston-Salem.

Fresh NC Wild Shrimp

Barbecue, just about anywhere, Smokehouse Holly Ridge, Hursey's Graham, Allen & Sons, Chapel Hill

A real coastal classic Steamed Oysters at an Oyster Roast, Swansboro's would be my favorite so far.

Some guy classics

Bologna, Cheese, and Tomato Sandwich

Fried Soft Shell Crab

-David Sobotta

[GastoniaNative]

Eastern NC BBQ
Salt and Pepper Fried Catfish(it's a gaston county thing mostly)
SunDrop Soda(back when I drank soda)

[NCN]

Green beans with cucumber slices, tomato slices, cantalope slices, chopped onions and sometimes sweet pickles chopped all stirred together and eat with corn bread or biscuits. I call it "green bean salad."

Stewed beef with biscuits (not beef stew, no vegetables)

Banana pudding made from scratch with homemade pudding.

Coffee and milk to drink--I don't like tea

Corn on the cob

The above foods were cooked by my mother. My favorite place to eat in the mountains is the Coffee Shop at Doughton Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway. My favorite food there is country ham. Their biscuits are good and oh that jelly!

I forgot to mention that the Northwest Trading Post has really good cookies.

[ymalaroo]

mater sandwich, black eye peas,biscuits and gravy and ahhh sweet tea!

[missymomof3]

ooooh my goodness y'all are makin' me hungry again!!!!

[Southlander]

Originally Posted by dsobotta

These are some of my favorite foods with recipes.
Perfect Cornbread and recipe for it.

Sugar does NOT belong in Southern-style cornbread. Bacon grease belongs!!

[jfre81]

Anyone who wants some Texas BBQ brisket gets pound-for-pound on the city-data market for eastern NC (vinegar) BBQ pork. I could go for some right about now. We'll think of something to throw extra in for a few jars of Duke's Mayonnaise - we do requests. I didn't know I liked potato salad or coleslaw before I came across Duke's. Seriously.

I haven't tried the western NC BBQ - you will hardly find anyone in the east who gives a favorable view of it so I will just try it for myself one day. In western NC.