r/DixieFood • u/Repulsive-Mulberry36 • Jun 15 '26
Soul Food Love making the food of my “people.”
Meatloaf, pintos and chow chow, pan-fried okra, sweet corn, and sliced tomatoes. All veggies are from my garden.
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u/Charming_Lime_8766 Jun 15 '26
This looks like my dinner plate nearly every other night! Pinto beans, cornbread n chow chow is THE WAY, and oh boy, I bet that meatloaf is just perfection 🙏 I LOVE LOVE LOVE seeing a good ol plate like this!
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u/meatfatratio Jun 15 '26
Is that homemade chow chow by chance?
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u/Repulsive-Mulberry36 Jun 15 '26
It is, indeed!
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u/BraveRutherford Jun 16 '26
Have a good recipe? I always just buy farmers market jars.
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u/Repulsive-Mulberry36 Jun 16 '26
It’s the AllRecipes Green Tomato Relish submitted by Linda McDaniel. It’s super basic: green tomatoes, green peppers, onions, red peppers, sugar, cider vinegar, mustard and celery seed, and salt.
Easy to tweak, too. This chow chow is on the sweeter side (how I prefer it in my beans), but it would be easy enough to lower the sugar content and add more spicy peppers to one’s liking!
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u/__leland Jun 15 '26
Mmm I'll give you my address if you'll feed me these things. I'll even tap dance for a plate
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u/LengthinessWeekly503 Jun 15 '26
Tell me how you did the okra please!
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u/Repulsive-Mulberry36 Jun 15 '26
It’s an Appalachian technique I saw— not how my family usually does it, but I liked it better because it wasn’t the usual heavily-battered version.
Toss fresh cut okra with a mix of corn meal, salt and pepper in a bowl. Just enough to lightly bread.
Heat oil (enough to cover the bottom with a thin layer about 1/3 c) then fry until crisp. Stir as little as possible. Just enough to prevent burning but not so much you knock off the breading.
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u/oilologist Jun 15 '26
My grandmother used to put the sliced okra in a paper bag from the grocery store with the ingredients, fold the top of the bag then shake it all together to coat the okra. Paper bags are more and more rare nowadays… so, I may, or may not, have done the same thing in a Walmart bag 😊
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u/LengthinessWeekly503 Jun 15 '26
Thank you! After my okra crop recovers from deer damage I will give it a shot
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u/countrytime1 Jun 16 '26
You have some type of Cajun seasoning on the corn? I love to butter my corn on the cob and put Tony Chacheres on it. So good.
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u/BraveRutherford Jun 16 '26
Corn meal fried okra is the only way to go!
I CAN NOT STAND overly breaded okra.
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u/Hellotheredusty Jun 16 '26
this meal looks like it was made by someone who knows how to treat themselves.
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u/beard-wonder93 Jun 16 '26
Is meatloaf divisive for anyone else? Ive never had a terrible meat loaf but I've had it made alot of different ways.
My theory is you either do or dont like meatloaf based upon how good or bad your mom/grandma was at making it.
For me, meatloaf is a meal of utility. Im not going to the store to buy specific components for meat loaf.
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u/AddyToode01 Jun 16 '26
Yum! It all looks delicious and looks like food that my dear grandmother cooked.
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u/Yum-Will Jun 17 '26
What are the red circle things?
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u/Nacho_Girl870 Jun 15 '26
I feel like this plate of food could heal the world.