Coli (future)parents do/will you feed your kids soul food

[SouthernBelle]

Soul Food Appreciation Thread:

 

[Kwéyòl]

Can someone provide me with specific examples of soul food?

I am Nigerian and grew eating mostly Nigerian food, and Caribbean food. Soul food is cool, but I am not a serious fan of soul food. If I marry an African American man I will be more than happy to make it, but it's not something I see myself mostly making if I marry an African man or Afro Caribbean man.My kids will mostly eat food like this.

That looks amazing right now I need a plate of that ASAP

 

[Illuminatos]

Jamaican food

I remember growing up Ackee and saltfish for breakfast, rice and peas and oxtail for dinner, and a slice of bun and cheese right before I go to bed.

I ain't marrying a chick that can't cook Jamaican food.

 

[agnosticlady]

That looks amazing right now I need a plate of that ASAP

Its very easy to make.

I actually prefer yellow jellof rice with the peas and carrots in it, especially when it is seasoned properly. The fried or bake goat meat really makes it taste great.

Mushroom rice with black beans is also delicious, especially with moin moin

 

[agnosticlady]

Jamaican food

I remember growing up Ackee and saltfish for breakfast, rice and peas and oxtail for dinner, and a slice of bun and cheese right before I go to bed.

I ain't marrying a chick that can't cook Jamaican food.

What is Ackee? I think I know what you're talking about, but please describe it for me.

 

[Labadi_Mantse]

That African food

 

[Point Blank]

It's all about moderation. Theres a difference between eating soul food everyday and on holiday occasions. If you're throwing down in the kitchen like that on the daily, yes you're going to have fat ass kids.

 

[agnosticlady]

Does anyone in this thread actually cook and buy groceries?

I do I know how to make many meals from scratch.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

My folks raised me and my fam on what I guess could be called Soul Food but look here...my mom could cook and we had a garden..naturally grown peas and cabbage and assortment of vegetables. We didn't end up with a truckload of health issues. Now that I've moved out my diet took a nosedive but in the past year I've been on that hard making improvements and I haven't felt this good in forever.

People expose themselves coming in here acting like Soul Food is all about being unhealthy. Do you have to get every single thought in your head from some biased negative source?

 

[Illuminatos]

What is Ackee? I think I know what you're talking about, but please describe it for me.

Ackee and saltfish w/ fried dumplings, bully Beef w/ fried dumplings and bacon and eggs are the only thing I eat for breakfast these days.

 

[live it to the limit]

Yes, it's better than all these Ramon noodles, pop tarts, frozen crap that's full of preservatives

 

[Kwéyòl]

Its very easy to make.

I actually prefer yellow jellof rice with the peas and carrots in it, especially when it is seasoned properly. The fried or bake goat meat really makes it taste great.

Mushroom rice with black beans is also delicious, especially with moin moin

Didn't know Nigerian food sounded so amazing

Home for the summer till college start up again and my mom said shes gonna make curry goat tonight

 

[Raava]

My children will grow up on a Southern/African(Cameroonian) fusion diet. I cook all of the stuff above plus the Southern food I was raised with (other than plantains and goat, the actual food items aren't that different).

They aren't that different at all. I was just reading an article about how jambalaya has roots in Jollof rice (). A lot of our food is more similar than people want to admit.

I try to cook different kinds of cuisines and like @Peter Vecsey said base recipes for many require some type of oil/fat for somethings. I love to mix and match flavors. You can make it healthier or worse depending. People assume the negativity associated with soul food and try to make others sound way better when it's not. Most of the health problems in the black community is a poverty problem and how processed American food can be.

 

[miranda]

not everyday or probably even every week, but my children will have chitlins at least once

 

[agnosticlady]

Ackee and saltfish w/ fried dumplings, bully Beef w/ fried dumplings and bacon and eggs are the only thing I eat for breakfast these days.

My mom makes that a lot. What we eat for breakfast in Nigeria a lot is eggs and plantains, or akara and akkam