With a slow fade from the beach and hot summery sun, to a cool and breezy fall,
I thought some Southern dish ideas would keep y’all nice and warm!
I hope everyone is having a fabulous Monday! The weather is beautiful and cool here. I’m relaxing and waiting for the girls to get up from their naps, so we can go for a walk – a nice, COOL walk, FINALLY! All of these Southern Side Dishes that I have listed, are sure making me hungry for some Southern yumminess! You know you’re Southern, when W says to our friend last night at dinner, who was eating chicken nuggets, “Have hushpuppies, Mama, please?” On her behalf, they did look like hushpuppies…
How delicious do these Southern sides look? What’s your favorite? Is there a favorite of yours, that was left off of the list?
Southern Side Dishes and Compliments
- Apple butter
- Barbecue sauce – numerous varieties throughout the region, sometimes even within same state; most use a primarily tomato, vinegar, or mustard base
- Cayenne peppers
- Chow-chow
- Cole slaw – cabbage salad/relish, typically made with mayonnaise and sometimes sugar, except in parts of North Carolina and Virginia, where it instead may be vinegar-based and savory (“barbecue slaw”)
- Cracklin’ – fried pork rind
- Deviled eggs
- Gravy served liberally over meats, potatoes, biscuits and rice
- Red-eye gravy – made with black coffee and meat drippings (usually ham), typically served with country ham and grits
- Sausage gravy – milk-based country gravy typically served over hot biscuits
- Grits
- Cheese grits
- Fried grits
- Hot sauce
- Texas Pete – hot sauce made in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Tabasco sauce – trademarked, aged hot sauce made in Louisiana
- Mayhaw jelly
- Muscadine jelly
- Old Bay Seasoning – made famous in Maryland – I use Old Bay for so many recipes, but my favorite would have to be rimming my Bloody Mary glass with it!
- Peanut butter
- Pepper Jelly – I love pepper jelly. My go-to appetizer is a cream cheese block, topped with pepper jelly. Serve with crackers, and you’re done. Simple, yet so yummy!
- Plantains
- Pickled or brandied peaches
- Rice
- Cornbread dressing – similar to traditional stuffing, but using cornbread as a base and prepared separately from the meat
- Cane syrup – the hubs LOVES this stuff on pancakes, and I cannot stand it!
If your stomach isn’t groaning by now, there’s something wrong with you. Haha.
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Yum! Just don't know if there's anything better than biscuits and gravy! The cooler weather hasn't made it to the Gulf Coast yet, but I'm sure ready for it!
I'm definitely starved now, lol!
Yum, you're making my mouth water! I love apple butter, cornbread dressing, and grits!
I'm so glad the weather is finally getting cooler!
I am probably one of the few who never have tried grits or biscuits and gravy. I must confess southern faire restaurants aren't a big draw in SoCal and I have never been to the south. I did make Paula Dean's Chicken Fried Steak a couple weeks ago and although I won't go so far to say it was a flop but I sure need to learn how to fry the southern way! 🙂 xoxo
Every single recipe and photo looks beyond amazing! I am bookmarking this post so I can come back when I need some good recipes. The apple butter might be first on my list 🙂
I can't live without every single thing on this list. My tops are BBQ Sauce, Chow Chow, Deviled Eggs, Gravy esp sausage gravy, Cheese Grits, Old Bay and Cornbread Dressing, if that wasn't more than half the list-ha!
Oooohhh yummy!!! I could eat so many deviled eggs I make myself sick! hahahaha I also love fried plantains! Mmmmm! 🙂
I nearly drooled over the pulled pork sandwich! And now I'm craving cheese grits! The weather is nice and cool here as well…hope you had a great Monday!
There is nothing in the world like a bowl of cheese grits!!!!! Delish!
I would love to try some really good apple butter.
xo
Oh my goodness…apple butter and muscadine jelly! Two things my country Grandmother would make all the time. Love, love, love 🙂
Hi Ashley! OMG I love this list to pieces, of course cheese grits hold their own special place in my heart, but my fave is PEPPER JELLY! Funny story and I'm sure you have heard this before – we had company last Thursday for the Saints season opener, some colleagues of Matt's who are all from PA. I made brisket po-boys, cheddar grits, and had a bunch of fun snacky-type stuff. Of course I had to break out one of my new jars of pepper jelly from a friend in Louisiana who makes the BEST! So anyways I had two big blocks of cream cheese and emptied the entire jar on top, and had a mixture of crackers to accompany it (there were a lot of people here!) Well, needless to say, it was a hit, and one of the guys came up to me and thanked me for hosting them, and said, "You really didn't have to go to so much trouble…everything is so nice, especially this cheese, it must have been really expensive, it's so rich and delicious tasting!" Well I could have kept my little secret to myself, but I just had to giggle and tell him the truth – it really threw that Northern boy for a loop! HAHA!!
i'm a new follower {not sure how i'm just now finding you}!! my beau is from baltimore and would love you. he insists on putting old bay in everything and refuses to drink a bloody mary that doesn't involve an old bay rim.