Southern Cooking

As I said in my previous entry, I LOVE good old-fashioned Southern cooking.I started thinking about this after reading an entry by  Nelishia, WISHING AND HOPING, and her inability to find any food like this in Colorado -haha!  Before my stepfather died, my mom would often cook a big Sunday dinner for anybody to stop by and eat.  Since he died, she really has stopped doing that, and I miss it.  She and my grandmother and the other women in my family have ALWAYS cooked up a big Southern dinner for Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and any other excuse to get the family together.  Here are some of my favorites:  I love fried okra, squash casserole, turnip greeens with pepper sauce, deviled eggs, creamed corn, greenbeans fresh out of the garden cooked slow with ham, homemade potato salad, marinated vidalia onions and cucumbers. I love pinto beans topped with my mom's homemade sweet hot pepper relish, mashed potatoes, brown sugar glazed baby carrots; my mother's pot roast with gravy over brown n serve rolls, my grandmother's turkey with cornbread and sage dressing, my great aunt's ham with ham gravy over her homemade yeast rolls, my other grandmother's marinated coleslaw.  My husband doesn't do too bad, either; he can make the best grilled cheese sandwich on Earth, and ANYTHING he cooks on the grill is awesome (from ribs to pork tenderloin).  And ALL of this is best served with a cold glass of sweet iced tea!!  I know to some of you who weren't born and raised in the south, some of these may not sound very good to you.  What are some other favorites from other parts of the country?  I am always interested in what foods people love to cook and eat!!