re: Silver Moon Cafe cookbook

Here's the fried chicken recipe. She has a smothered pork chop recipe if you would like me to post it.

Something seems off with her white bean recipe. Surprised she didn't have chicken stock in it or something like bacon fat. I remember her dish and just using water and the flavors in hers doesn't compute.

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Something seems off with her white bean recipe. Surprised she didn't have chicken stock in it or something like bacon fat. I remember her dish and just using water and the flavors in hers doesn't compute.

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You are correct.
In the 80's I was a regular in her original place, sometimes 4 days a week and spent plenty of time along side her in the kitchen.
Sitting on a table just to the right of her stove she had a perpetual pot of bacon fat or lard. The pot never moved. I don't think it ever went to the fridge.
She had a commercial size serving spoon and would scoop big spoonfuls of fat into each dish cooking on the stovetop.
It was this same big spoon that she would threaten to beat us with if we didn't stop cussing in her kitchen.
Another thing missing from the cookbook was the "HUGE" amount of super coarse black pepper that she would top each dish with before she brought them to your table.
I noticed that when she opened the LSU location the recipes changed a bit.
They became more approachable to us white folks. Less fat & less black pepper.
I think she did the same thing with the cookbook.
Vegetable oil? Nope, I rarely ever saw her use vegetable oil unless maybe she was making roux for a big gumbo.
Pig fat for the win!

I ordered too.
Randomly think about the cookbook from time to time.
This thread needs some traction.

Her smothered chicken was to die for.