Day Five of Kathleen Duncan’s June 1-30 challenge.
The prompt: Share your five favorite foods or recipes.
I grew up in the South where Sunday dinner was delicious and church potlucks were prodigious.
If you were blessed to go to a church that had Fifth Sunday spreads, then you know what I mean.
On cement tables back of the church, good cooks pulled out all the stops and brought forth their most prized recipes for public consumption.
If you wanted a taste of Aunt Wilma’s cake or Aunt Mattie Lou’s beans, you had better be in the front of the line, because the best dishes were emptied fast.
So in honor of those warm memories, I share my five favorite church potluck foods:
Dessert First! {One of the privileges of potlucks}
Banana Pudding-a southern staple, this creamy concoction is both beautiful and delicious. It often arrived to the buffet with a corner scooped out because someone HAD to taste it-just to make sure it was good.
Pound Cake-crunchy crust, moist inside and a perfect foil for fresh fruit or ice cream. If you lived in a rural community it was made all the better wtih farm fresh egss, real butter and NEVER imitation vanilla.
Fried Chicken-before it was possible to pick up a box of chicken on almost any corner-good, iron skillet fried chicken was both an art and a treat. Only the best cooks could manage to get the meat done, yet still moist and produce a crispy crust.
Baked Macaroni and Cheese-full of cheesy goodness and oh, so different, than the stuff in the box! I’m sad that some children don’t even know it can be “homemade”.
Creamed Corn-fresh corn, picked and silked, then scalded and scraped from the cob. Grandmama would pull a few bags from the freezer and cook them down in a pot with a little butter and salt. You could taste summer and love in every bite.
I have fond memories of sitting on cement steps, swatting flies and eating delicious food surrounded by people I love.
I felt safe, protected, full and included.
My heart was assured that there would always be enough love, enough food and enough of everything to go around.
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