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Post by komsomol on Mar 31, 2009 20:08:01 GMT
I saw that a lot of U.S. states have official symbols, and Oklahoma is the state that has the most official foods.
They declared 11 “state menu items,” plus a state fruit and a state vegetable. In case you ever want to have yourself an official Oklahoma state buffet, here are the menu items: barbequed pork, chicken fried steak, sausage, biscuits and gravy, fried okra, squash, grits, corn, black-eyed peas, cornbread and pecan pie.
The Oklahoma state fruit is the strawberry and the Oklahoma state vegetable is the watermelon (?).
As for the state drink, it is milk but that is the state drink of 19 states in the U.S.
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 31, 2009 20:14:59 GMT
Thank you. Komsomol, for putting up this warning post
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 31, 2009 20:19:09 GMT
I like how they have a token regular vegetable in there (squash), although it's probably fried, too. Whenever I visit Oklahoma I make sure to have some chicken fried steak. It's usually served with mashed potatoes and a puffy white roll -- a uniformly beige meal unmarred by vitamin-tainted green stuff. Okay, secretly I like chicken fried steak and enjoy indulging the guilty pleasure every year or two. Braggin' Rights Chicken Fried Steak2 pounds Roundsteak, sliced 1/2 inch thick and twice-tenderized by the butcher 2 cups All-purpose flour 2 teaspoons Baking powder 1 teaspoon Baking soda 1 teaspoon Fresh ground black pepper 3/4 teaspoon Salt 1 1/2 cup Buttermilk 1 large Egg 1 tablespoon Hot red pepper sauce 2 cloves garlic, minced Crisco for deep frying ***CLASSIC CREAM GRAVY*** 1/4 cup Pan drippings 3 tablespoons All-purpose flour 2 cups Evaporated milk 1 cup Unsalted beef stock 1/2 teaspoon Fresh ground black pepper Salt to taste ***OPTIONAL*** Mashed potatoes Homemade buttermilk biscuits Cut steak into 4 equal portions. Pound until each is about 1/4 inch thick. Place flour in a shallow bowl. In a second dish, stir together baking powder, soda, pepper and salt; mix in buttermilk, egg, pepper sauce and garlic. The mixture will be thin. Dredge each steak first in flour, then in batter. Dunk steaks back into flour and dredge well, patting in the flour until the surface of the meat is dry. Add enough shortening to a deep cast-iron skillet or Dutch oven to deep fry steaks in at least 4 inches of fat. Bring temperature of shortening to 325 degrees. Fry the steaks, pushing them under the fat or turning them as they bob to the surface, for 7 to 8 minutes, or until they are golden brown. Drain steaks on paper towels and transfer to a platter. Keep warm while preparing Classic Cream Gravy. Divide steaks among 4 plates and serve with mashed potatoes and gravy. CLASSIC CREAM GRAVY: After cooking chicken-fried steak or similar dish, pour off the top fat through a strainer, leaving about 1/2 cup pan drippings in the bottom of the skillet. Return any browned cracklings from the strainer to the skillet before starting the gravy. Place skillet over medium heat. Sprinkle in the flour, stirring to avoid lumps. Add milk and stock. Simmer until liquid is thickened and the raw flour taste is gone, about 3 minutes. Stir the gravy up from the bottom frequently, scraping up any browned bits. Season with pepper and salt. Makes about 3 cups. This recipe from CDKitchen for Braggin' Rights Chicken Fried Steak serves/makes 4
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2009 20:19:54 GMT
I actually passed through Oklahoma once, but it was on a Greyhound bus in the middle of the night. I remember seeing glittering refineries which impressed me, because I was expecting to see the Dust Bowl.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 31, 2009 23:09:19 GMT
Oh, my God; Chicken Fried Steak. Not the sort of food I'd want to eat even weekly, but it can be SOOOO good! "barbequed pork, chicken fried steak, sausage, biscuits and gravy, fried okra, squash, grits, corn, black-eyed peas, cornbread and pecan pie." All those are essential foods, but you can have my portion of blackeyed peas. I much prefer pinto beans. Biscuits and gravy, with longaniza verde on the side. (Not your usual Southern combo.)
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Post by Don Cuevas on Mar 31, 2009 23:15:34 GMT
Chicken Fried Steak (not my photo) for breakfast! Yeah! Note the passing resemblance to biscuits and gravy. That white "gravy" is muy popular in the South.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 1, 2009 2:32:16 GMT
Not in my part of the south! I never had either chicken fried steak nor white gravy until after I graduated from high school and my dad was transferred to southern Oklahoma. I think the roll with the mashed potato/battered meat combo is a fairly recent innovation. When I lived there, it always came with "Texas toast" -- extra-thick slices of white bread, limply toasted and dripping with butter.
The other food treat to which I was introduced when we moved there was something called a "lazy dazy" -- a spiced ground beef ball rolled in cornmeal (I think) & deep-fat fried. This was a specialty of the local Sonic Drive-in.
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Post by rikita on Apr 20, 2009 17:25:56 GMT
the family i lived with in oklahoma had ocra a lot, and i never understood why they would like that... never had heard of it before, but didn't like the taste... cornbread we had quite often too, found that so-so.
did on the other hand i loved pecan pie, had that much to seldom i think...
most of the other things on the list we probably had too, but they didn't stand out to me enough for me to remember them. what i found stranger was that sometimes we had dinner that just consisted of potato chips and similar stuff (not that often, but it happened) which is something that'd have never happened at home in my family...
ah we had a lot of watermelon too, that was fascinating to me, to each such huge amounts of it, as when i was a kid watermelon was still kind of expensive here, so it was always strictly rationed...
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 21, 2009 18:56:04 GMT
And what is the state's average life expectancy?
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