Song of the South
yoyoma -- Wednesday, July 07, 2004 -- 08:15:03 PMCome on down, y'all.
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Maybe the Sweet Tea Line extends into western Va., then, Dew. My highly scientific determination is that in restaurants below the line, you're served sweet tea unless you specify unsweetened. In restaurants around here, they usually have only unsweetened, or else they ask which you want.
Sweet tea my big, hispanic butt. Those restaurants are serving syrup over ice.
Mmmmmmmmmm. Down here one has to specify, but that's due to the high tourist content. Myrtle Beach, for those playing at home.
I'm moving further inland on August 15 and I cannot wait. I always thought the beach would be great, but the tourists I can do without.
Where are y'all going, yoyo?
I am not a huge fan of Myrtle Beach (I prefer my beaches more beach, less amusement), but I recently saw it through my kid's eyes, and he thinks it's fabulous.
Just slightly to the northwest, to Conway. It's far enough to not be super touristy, but close enough that we can still get to the beaches and restaurants. I just got a job in Marion and DH works in Conway, so it's better for everyone.
Also, we live in an apartment right now. The rental company has decided to rent out the vacant ones as weekly units. So we get a lot of people around who don't care if they trash the place because they won't be there next week. It's sooooo great to go to the pool and see drunk college students getting topless while I'm trying to teach Cam how to swim.
Have I mentioned I can't wait to move?
Congrats on your job. I know where Conway is and I imagine that will be much better for family life.
Sometime when y'all are in a road trip mood, come on up to Wilmington!
Conway is a sweet little town. My cousin was a minister there for about 20 years.
And Myrtle Beach really does suck. It's the armpit of the state. The only advantage of it is that most of the tackiness in the entire state is concentrated in this one area.
So, which grocery chain makes decent iced tea? I'm having a party and buying tea will save me some labor. (I just spent an hour heading ten pounds of shrimp and collecting umpteen mosquito bites while I did it.)
Ye olde Fil-A sells it by the gallon. DH has his press luncheons catered by them. Before you think him tactless, it's a reciprocal relationship free food = advertising. Anyway, their tea travels well, sez me.
McAlister's Deli sells good sweet and unsweet tea by the gallon.
I'm heading to Durham on Wednesday! I can't wait... I can drink sweet tea and eat grits and buy White Lily. And it'll be HOT.
You ain't kidding about hot.
I will check out Chik-Fil-A tea, thanks.
Wampus, I second the Chik-Fil-A tea rec and will attest to their lemonade being very good. I generally don't like lemonade unless I make it myself from fresh lemons, but theirs is really good.
For some reason, Subway has really good cold tea. It has a slightly floral note to it, like a Russian Kusmi tea. Then again, maybe they just need to clean out their pots...
wait, you're going to buy sweet tea? Are you nutsy? How hard is it to plop a few family sized luzianne tea bags into a jug of water and stir in some simple syrup?
Simple syrup, schmimple syrup. Just dump the sugar into the pitcher, pour in the boiling water and plunk in the tea bags. (I use decaf tea, because it doesn't get bitter when I forget and steep it too long.) About 1/2 cup of sugar to a gallon is plenty sweet for me -- I don't like really really sweet iced tea.
Yoyo, we have family friends in Conway. I remember going to see them there a number of years ago, when they'd had a new baby. The mom was my first-grade teacher.
I know it's easy to make tea, but I had 47 people invited and too much other stuff to do.
And don't you tell my grandma I bought tea, either.
Collards. . . . .I need to make those again. Used to eat 'em all the time. Anyone have a recipe besides just boiling and salting them?
Hmmmm, I like the olive oil and garlic business. I'm guessing that doesn't work very well with the frozen cubes o' collards though.
We start our collards by simmering smoked neck bones and whole peeled onions into a yummy broth. When it tastes good, add the washed, washed, washed some more then chopped collards. Simmer until they're done. Mmmm...
There's an idea. That would take some degree of planning however. More than, "Say, it's 4:45, whatever shall I eat tonight?"
Frank--thaw the frozen collards in cool water before you saute them. It's not my preferred way to eat collards, but so long as you eat 'em.
I second Melisub's method. They're best served with a splash of good vinegar.
I believe I shall attempt something like that this weekend.
Me too.
In California. Not exactly barbecue country. Mom and Dad, however, live in the South, and they eat barbecue at least once a week. Just yesterday, Mom was talking about how they'd had dinner at the bbq place owned by a family in their church and how good the ribs were. Mr. Kay is a ribs fanatic, and I try to shield his ears from such conversations because we've never found decent ribs away from the South and he gets cranky when reminded of it.
Try doing them yourself! My husband just started doing his own ribs, and even the first attempt was very good - and a welcome respite from Texas "all beef, all the time" barbecue.
I like a good barbecued brisket as much as the next person, but to me, nothing says REAL barbecue like pig.
If you have a Weber kettle grill you can make pretty good barbecued ribs by yourself. The only other equipment you need is a rack to hold the ribs with and a pie pan to catch the grease drippings (and so you can use indirect heat rather than putting the ribs over the fire).
Steve Raichlen has the technique in several of his books, but basically, you put a pie tin in the middle of the coal grill and build the fire around it, then put your ribs in the rack, cover the grill, and basically hot smoke the ribs for a hour or two. You need to add coals every so often to keep the temp up, and also wood chips to add smoke help. Plus you need a beer so you have something to drink while you wait.