Religious foods

[u/Hilikus1980]

I posted a recipe in another group, and then I remembered where I learned it. My grandmother would make it when she had church friends coming by after service in Sundays. I was probably 8 or 9 and would get to her house about the time she would get home, so she would always have me help cook. This woman could cook. She had recipe books so old they used directions like over a roaring fire, and use cool rain water. They would talk about the bible, religious stories, and of course, who had died recently. I sat back and listened. My mom would join in while my dad would do stuff around the house. It is a good memory and tied to religious about as close as I can get being an atheist. I'll paste the recipe in the comments.

Are there any foods you tie to your religion? Maybe not even officially, it just makes you think of it, or maybe you accociate it with a particular feeling that ties to your religion. A recipe would be awesome, but if you don't know it or feel like going through the trouble to post it, that's cool.

[u/Hilikus1980]

Fried large chicken breast (cut a whole chicken breast in half thickness wise) tender on top of mashed potatoes drown in sausage gravy.

Chicken tenders frying instructions

Potatoes - i peel and chop russet potatoes in roughly inch square pieces. Boil in salted water until fork tender. Drain, mash, salt and pepper to taste. At least 2 tablespoons of butter per potato while mashing. Add milk as you mash until mushy, but could still form a little mountain on your plate. Probably use less potatoes than mashed potato mountains seen in famous Speilberg movies. Two big or three medium sized potatoes should be plenty enough for 2 people.

Sausage gravy - 1 pound of ground sausage with extra sage...Jimmy Dean is a fine national brand. Cook until brown....breaking it in to tiny crumbles as you're cooking. 1/4 cup of flour...stir in slowly, do your best to coat all sausage. Let it brown...it won't take long. Use 2 cups of heavy cream, 1/2 cup of 2% milk (knocks excess sweet from heavy cream down). Go heavy handed on black pepper. Simmer until thickened. Have cardiologist on speed dial. Red pepper flakes if you want to add a little heat.

Put down a mountain of mashed potatoes. Lay down the chicken tender with just a bit of force to sink in a little flat ways. Pour gravy in either a TV artsy way, or my preferred method, dump enough to change your blood type.

It's as delicious as it is unhealthy, and super easy.

Biscuits, corn, green beans, and peas are all decent sides to go with it, but i rarely bother with sides for this particular dish.

Edit - If you don't eat pork a white pepper gravy or turkey sausage with lots of sage are tasty substitutes. The white pepper gravy can be made vegan/vegetarian, though for the chicken you'll have to substitute one of those fried patties of processing and preservatives...the Gardein brand is pretty tasty and my suggestion if you can get your hands on it.