Squashpants wrote:

Monstruo! Are you (or your mom) from Georgia or North Carolina? Those dishes are truly country. And those potatoes sound like to die for! I'll bet you miss that cooking terribly.
I was raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Squashpants. I consider it good fortune that both my parents were from rural Kentucky, an area mostly sustained by farming. My mom always cooked in real country style, possibly without ever thinking of it as country.