"Quintessential American Breakfast" for visiting Swedish couple: SUGGESTIONS???

[shroomgirl]

memphis, little rock, louisiana, missippi, alabama.....all grit eaters, or at least you have them on your plate at breakfast. many times along with a biscuit, hashbrowns, eggs meat.....carbs are us.
And in southern Louisiana spicy cheese grits are deirguer on a breakfast/brunch buffet.

[Mrs.Butterworth]

Biscuits and gravy! The heartburn just SCREAMS welcome to america!

[skilletlicker]

Originally Posted by bigwheel

Grits is also considered weird in vast expanses of geography South of the Mason Dixon line. Seems like most of the grit eaters is concentrated North and East of Dallas.

bigwheel

South of the Mason Dixon and east of east of Dallas. I know Texas was part of the confederacy but do folks in the Dallas Fort Worth area generally consider themselves southerners? I learned to love grits as a teen during an ill spent year in central Fla. 40 yrs. ago.

On behalf of some old friends in Allentown, I'll nominate scrapple as a truly regional breakfast dish.

Regarding previously mentioned Huevos Rancheros; I learned to love it with a layer of fresh chorizo which I rarely see included now.

[Greg Cobb]

The concern is interesting, but experience tells me don't try to over concern yourself by creating something out of the ordinary to you. When I travel in the US or Europe, I usually eat what the locals eat. Have you ever had a German fix you Italian food? (KISS) keep it simple!

In the US, I find a lot of people try to duplicate Southern dishes and have never been south of the Mason-Dixon.

Serve what's comfortable for you. If you want Southern food. Add a little smoked meat to the menu or if you want to cook coastal, add Oysters or seafood to it.

Ham and eggs in the south is Scrapple and eggs in Maryland!

Pasteries are a big win, try some southern pastery dishes. Pecan Sticky rolls!! MMM!

Greg

[MikeLM]

Well- hey

I always appreciate the advice I get here, even though the Swedes were here a year ago. The Missouri ham went over quite well, as did grits and several other of your suggestions.

I'm still trying to persuade Shroomgirl to marry me. We could cook beautiful things together. But I'm worried my wife will find out about this idea.

Oh, well.

Mike

[diane]

Hilarious mate. Shows we should check dates on posts. OK now, I want fried tomatoes on fried bread, with 2 eggs. A bubble and squeak pattie, mushrooms, bacon and a sausage, precooked, halved and refried crisp. All must be prepared in butter and/or ghee. And make it snappy mate, I need to get back to the future before I starve to death. ;Þ

[bigwheel]

Well we got a funny situation here. We consider everybody who aint from Texas to be yankees..including other Southerners. Now we do make a few exceptions for cajuns...Okies and folks from Tennesse. Hope that clarifies things.

bigwheel

Originally Posted by skilletlicker

South of the Mason Dixon and east of east of Dallas. I know Texas was part of the confederacy but do folks in the Dallas Fort Worth area generally consider themselves southerners? I learned to love grits as a teen during an ill spent year in central Fla. 40 yrs. ago.

On behalf of some old friends in Allentown, I'll nominate scrapple as a truly regional breakfast dish.

Regarding previously mentioned Huevos Rancheros; I learned to love it with a layer of fresh chorizo which I rarely see included now.

[MikeLM]

Diane-

We could probably work something out, breakfastwise.

We entertained a very nice couple from Tasmania just a month or so after the Swedes were here. They were members of a Rotary fellowship devoted to travelling; they were on a round-the-world jaunt that lasted several months, usually staying a few days with fellow Rotarians as they went. The deal is, of course, that their hospitality is available to other members whenever they're in the neighborhood.

But how many wind up in the neighborhood of Tasmania?

Chicago, on the other hand, is pretty much at the center of things.

Mike

[diane]

Thats great Mike. I think the Rotarian idea is great too. Tassie for us is just across the 'ditch'. It can get very cold there, we are further North, and it is warmer.

[MikeLM]

Diane-
How cold is "very cold?" I thought down your way was at least semi-tropical, but I'm probably not very geographically well-informed. In Chicago, "very cold" can be 27 degrees below zero. That would be Farenheit. I'll let you do the conversion to Celsius, but probably around -55C.

Actually, that has happened only once in the thirty or so years I've lived here. It was enough.

Our Rotary District entertained a group of really nice New Zealanders about eight years ago as part of a program called Group Study Exchange, in which six or eight young professionals in various fields are brought from one country to another to spend about eight weeks touring a particular Rotary District and meeting their local professional counterparts to compare professional notes, and some general sightseeing and visiting with the local Rotary clubs. The local clubs cover all their expenses. (The only restriction is that those chosen can't be Rotary members, since it's not a self-serving program.)

I was on the committee that hosted and made the arrangements for the NZ group, and I had a lot of fun with them.

But boy, were they hard to understand!

Mike