Sunday, September 27, 2009

Dinner tonight?

I'm glad you asked. An old American favorite: Fried chicken.

And for the side fixin's? Another old American favorite: Pease*, spiced up with some Canadian bacon. I still had some in the freezer, and though the original recipe I'm following calls for salt pork, I di'n't have any and this sounded like a good substitute.

*Seriously, that's the original form of the word and it was used the same way we use the word "corn" still. There weren't no individual "pea"s in the original olden days.

3 comments:

Kate P said...

Yum!!! I think improvisation is another American favorite. :)

The Fifth String said...

Yum, indeed. It turned out very well.

I am all about the improv.

Anonymous said...

Hence the poem, "Pease porridge hot"