Southern Dinner

Every Sunday night my neighbors and I take turns cooking dinner then watch True Blood on HBO. Since the show is set in Louisiana, we always love the subtle nuances about the South. My culinary heritage is based in Kentucky where my mother, grandmothers and great grandmothers all learned to cook. This week it was my turn to make dinner and I thought it would be fun to prepare all the dishes I so fondly remember enjoying in my great grandmother's house in Glasgow, Kentucky. The menu included baked, smoked ham, fresh coleslaw, collard greens that had been simmering for hours in smoked turkey stock, corn pudding and fresh buttermilk biscuits. I made baked beans too but forgot them in the kitchen! During the show I served Nilla wafer pudding - homemade vanilla pudding with fresh, sliced bananas and Nilla wafers. It was addictive!