Another food thread:What part of the U.S.(Canada included)has the best tasting food?

[KATMAN]

You can also buy them at a Bass Pro Shop,Cabela's,or a discount outdoors store.I paid $48 for a 8 qt dutch oven at a discount store.Now I have to get another one without legs on it.

[Cloudwalker]

My dad had a cast iron spider dutch oven (I think my mom may still have it). When we were camping he would make the most delicious peach cobbler in it. When he lifted the lid to check it you could smell it for miles. We always burned our mouths on it because it was to delicious to wait for it to cool off before we ate it. And while we are on the subject of southern cooking, how about Sweet Potato Pie?

[Frecs]

My dad had a cast iron spider dutch oven (I think my mom may still have it). When we were camping he would make the most delicious peach cobbler in it. When he lifted the lid to check it you could smell it for miles. We always burned our mouths on it because it was to delicious to wait for it to cool off before we ate it. And while we are on the subject of southern cooking, how about Sweet Potato Pie?

My grandfather had a GIANT cast iron fry pan. He would set up a homemade "grill", put that fry pan on it with a bunch of oil and fry up a mess of fish that was UNBELIEVABLY good...

Sweet Potato Pie....ummm....way mo'better than pumpkin pie.

[KATMAN]

My favorite is pecan pie.I can have that as a entire meal!

[Frecs]

Now, I have to say that when it comes to pies...the Amish have it hands down with the Shew Fly Pie...nothin' better in this world!

[Cloudwalker]

Now, I have to say that when it comes to pies...the Amish have it hands down with the Shew Fly Pie...nothin' better in this world!

I've been known to make a good Shew Fly Pie. I've also made a Shew Fly cake (can't remember where I got the recepe but if I looked I'm sure I could find the recepe again).

[Frecs]

Other than Southern food, I'd have to say that the Amish rock. I had a fabulous picnic in Lancaster County by stopping at a Amish Farmers Market, getting some German Bologna, bread, various side items, and for dessert...a personal size shew fly pie. OMG, Oscar Mayer knows not of true bologna! I still drool when I think of it....so right it has to be wrong!

[Cloudwalker]

I have 2 Amish cookbooks. Very good. They have an experession "Them that works hearty, eats hearty." They work hearty, they assume everybody else does and so they feed you accordingly.

[Equipped_4_Love]

California has the market absolutely CORNERED on Mexican food. The north CANNOT do good Mexican.

[Vhayes]

Sure we can. We have Mexican Restaurants where none of the kitchen help speak English and the wait staff speak Spanglish. There is one family here who own four restaurants now. They immigrated and now they sponsor their relatives. They also have markets next door to their restaurants. Their hours are long and their food is both cheap and incredibly good.

They know how to prepare great Mexican food and they know how to keep the gringos coming back.

As an aside, the waiter who would always take care of us (back in the day when we could afford to go out to eat) would always ask us a word - and what it meant - how to use it properly in a sentence. At any rate, we had a comfortable relationship with him and I told him once that I admired his desire to speak the language properly. He told me that when he first came to America, he lived in another city for three years and worked in a Chinese restaurant; he learned to speak Chinese. He said he never leaned how to write it but he could both understand it and speak it. THAT'S amazing!

[rett777]

Southern food all the way, the trade off it's it's usually a lot worse for you.
I lived in GA for a year, it was then that I was first introduced to deep fried mac n cheese.

[bc3n1]

Cloudwalker, sweet potatoe pie is a custom with us. Have you ever tasted buttermilk pie?

[PrayerInMemphis]

Southern food all the way, the trade off it's it's usually a lot worse for you.

that' s what i hear...although my grandparents (who ate nothing but) all had the gift of years...my great-grandmother lived to be 101. i'm guessing it had more to with the fact that they grew all of their own food though...

[KATMAN]

Southern food all the way, the trade off it's it's usually a lot worse for you.
I lived in GA for a year, it was then that I was first introduced to deep fried mac n cheese.

I think my arteries just clogged at the mere mention of them!

[Cloudwalker]

Cloudwalker, sweet potatoe pie is a custom with us. Have you ever tasted buttermilk pie?

Can't say I have but if you have a recipe I'll look into making one. It sounds interestng