Southern breakfast - any suggestions?

[Vader]

You live and learn. "Chicken fried steak" does not involve any chicken and "chicken fried chicken" is not to be confused with "fried chicken". What a strange world ...

[sgt.null]

nor is chicken fried steak properly a breakfast dish.

[Vraith]

nor is chicken fried steak properly a breakfast dish.

I thought anything you could get at Denny's 24hrs. counted as breakfast food?

[Harbinger]

The things that scream southern to me are grits and Country ham with redeye gravy. Mini handmade biscuits. And the grits can't be quick or instant. It takes 20 min for proper grits.

I've got a guy working for me now that has been to culinary school. He made the best French Toast I ever had.

One egg, one cup of milk, one tsp of vanilla. Dip Texas Toast quickly in mixture and fry on lightly greased skillet to a golden brown on each side. Sprinkle brown sugar on each side and carmelize. Powdwered sugar optional.

[Sunbaneglasses]

I have lived in central Alabama my entire life and I love breakfast foods.............thus I am an expert. #1. You HAVE to include biscuits, google buttermilk biscuits. #2. You have to include a fried meat item preferably pork such as bacon, ham, sausage or pork chops. (Country fried beef steak is an acceptable pork alternative) #3. Gravy! Gravy! Gravy! If you don't make either red eye gravy or sawmill gravy then you are not even trying. #4. Scrambled eggs, crack about 10 more eggs than you think you will need because feeding the scraps to the dogs after they have sat around for several hours is customary. Biscuits can be eaten with gravy, butter, butter and sorghum syrup, butter and jelly (apple is my favorite), or sorghum syrup and redeye gravy.............we DON'T eat beans with breakfast, we don't eat any form of seafood with breakfast. Another popular item are tomato slices covered in sawmill gravy. You must have coffee or iced tea or orange juice. It's ok if you don't have grits due to availability issues, they taste quite bland unless you add lots of cheese or butter which turns them into a delicious but artery clogging spoon full of heaven and between the biscuits and the fatty fried pork there is plenty of vitamin F without them.

[Vader]

So I'll have

cornbread
buttermilk biscuits
gravy
fried chicken
chicken fried pork steaks
sausage, scrambled eggs & fried bacon
jelly, syrup, jam
various cheeses and cold cuts
smoked fish
grits made from polenta (optional)

I'll also make a crawfish salad and a mud pie.

This might not all be genuine southern stuff, but the older people here need a few "traditional" items.

[Harbinger]

Sounds great! Consider putting crumbled sausage in the gravy.

[Cameraman Jenn]

Definitely crumbled sausage in the gravy!

[Vader]

Forgot the hash brownies.

As for the gravy I'm gonna I try the red eye one. Coffee and fatty residues together sounds exciting.

Thank all y'all. I keep you updated.

[Vraith]

As for the gravy I'm gonna I try the red eye one.

EXCELLENT! It's more purely southern and unique in flavor.

[aliantha]

Forgot the hash brownies.

Uh, Vader? I think hash brownies are something else entirely.

[Harbinger]

You prob know this- don't put sausage in the redeye gravy.

[Savor Dam]

Forgot the hash brownies.

Uh, Vader? I think hash brownies are something else entirely.

...which explains the forgetting.

[Vader]

Forgot the hash brownies.

Uh, Vader? I think hash brownies are something else entirely.

Hash browns of course. Better gonna save the hash brownies for next year when we have a reggae motto.

[Vraith]

Forgot the hash brownies.

Uh, Vader? I think hash brownies are something else entirely.

...which explains the forgetting.

and the red eye

[Savor Dam]

An excellent point, Vraith.

[aliantha]

Forgot the hash brownies.

Uh, Vader? I think hash brownies are something else entirely.

Hash browns of course. Better gonna save the hash brownies for next year when we have a reggae motto.

Soon come, mon.

[Vader]

Uh, Vader? I think hash brownies are something else entirely.

Hash browns of course. Better gonna save the hash brownies for next year when we have a reggae motto.

Soon come, mon.

I usually last longer. In this case it was like 4 hours.

[Cameraman Jenn]

Sunbaneglasses, My Mom's side of the family were Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia based and specifically with my grandparents for the majority of the Maryland part they were right on the Chesapeake Bay complete with dock at the end of the backyard and in that part of the south, seafood is a common food for breakfast. Crab cakes, pan fried perch and pan fried oysters are all traditional parts of a Maryland coastal brekkie. It's not so much a division of south vs. north, it's more inland vs. coastal. I've lived on both the east and west coast and both north and south on the east side but always coastal and everywhere coastal, seafood is traditional at every meal. Dungeoness crab cake benedicts are found on many a menu here in SF as is salmon omelettes.

[Vader]

The mud pie - holy mother of all that's chocolate. I gained like 50 kg by just stirring the creamy filling together.