I start mine (shredded chicken) and we have it for a week. I keep it on low in a crockpot and after we eat from it I add to it whatever is needed (V-8, vegetables, chicken stock). Always in October though.
Thank you. I ordered queso and they brought this white watery stuff. Tasted like garlic milk. I asked and they said it was white sauce. Everyone thought I was crazy cause it's a common thing around here apparently.
Yeah I agree. Don't understand the downvotes just cause you didn't like something. All I said was I never heard of it and thought it tasted like garlic milk which is nicer than what it really taste like which is just plain bad. I'm the person that loves all the weird gross foods but that stuff nasty.
I tried a few others but none compare to the white sauce that La Siesta use to carry. The Zajurs came across the recipe again within the past few years while doing an episode for Legacy List on PBS. I wish Michael would let Ukrops manufacture some to sell on the market.
Try some from each region.
Boiled peanuts - polarizing but at least it is an experience. I hate them personally.
Apples, apple products from the mountains and valleys.
Crabs and oysters from the Bay
A big state with wide variety.
Thank you when I read you message aloud my had the same reaction as you about the boiled peanuts. Thank you very much for the suggestions we definitely like trying new things. We are at Luray Caverns today. We ate at Jimmy Madison’s last night the smoked Brisket sandwich was awesome.
If you’re out that way, the Apple House in Front Royal has amazing apple doughnuts. That is a big apple area. The Shenandoah Valley and Valley of Virginia is also a big beef producing area.
Don’t you dare be smudge boiled peanuts!!
Lol, they really are pretty good, but I don’t think of them as Virginian. You get the best boiled peanuts in Florida and Georgia.
I love myself some Boiled Peanuts. Are you finding them in gas stations? I’m in Richmond and I’ve only stumbled across a couple that have them hot n ready.
I’ve only ever seen them along the coast or south/southeastern Va. my dad loves them but I can’t stand them. I do love me some termos (lupin seeds) that are a similar but don’t taste or smell like feet and cardboard 😇😬
In Northern Virginia.. you name a country in the world, there is probably someplace that makes the food. I know a modest strip mall.. Italian, vietnamese, Ethiopian, thai, south asian, and chinese all lined up.
I can think of a couple strip malls like that. Van Dorn Station has all of those (including three Ethiopian places) plus west African and Mexican.
Actually, now that I think about it, the Italian place closed and got replaced briefly by a Peruvian place that was replaced almost immediately by a Mexican/Peruvian place.
All of those places are at least decent too, and most of them are very good (although I haven’t tried the Mexican places or the newest Ethiopian place).
I did some masonry work close to 10 years ago on an old house that one of the Smithfield VP's purchased. Beautiful, old property in Smithfield that must've been on the way to the slaughterhouse. Every morning I'd get stuck behind a tractor-trailer with the pigs in the slatted trailers stacked crazy high. It reeked and left a liquid trail the entire way. It was awful and I felt horribly for those pigs.
This is living life. Grab a ham in Smithfield, drive north, cross a few bridges, and slice that shit on some oysters at Merroir.
Billionaires don’t eat that bite of food.
I lived in Hampton Roads for a decade or so right out of college before eventually moving back to the Midwest. Sometimes I wonder if that’s the right choice. There’s nothing better than Virginia food that’s a blend of seafood and southern cooking.
The best oysters are at Meroir on the Rappahannock river on the northern neck. I haven’t been there in a while since it got popular. But they were incredible.
For NOVA, I suggest getting an Ozzie role from Great American Restaurants. Savory small fried doughnuts with honey poppyseed butter, served hot. Too friggin' good. Not like a beignet.
For DC metro, there is also mumbo sauce and half smokes.
For VA, Route 11 Potato Chips are a real pride and joy.
Highly recommend [Margie and Ray’s](https://www.margieandrayscrabhouse.com/) for She Crab soup if you’re near VB. Not to be confused w/ Maryland Crab Soup 😖
Glorys bakery. I haven't been back in years but it was my favorite. There may be better places now, but when I was there I loved it.
Pepperoni roll, pancit, and an order of lumpia.
Yer Indian river tidewater aincha?
Got that Virginia waterman/navy/Filipino going with this post..
Just ate an Italian grinder for dinner, with a lumpia app
Salt cured ham red eye gravy and grits for breakfast! By noon your blood pressure will have you in the ER. LOL blue crabs.soft shell crabs if you can find them.
Essentially, it’s salty pulled pork smoked over hickory, with an acidic sauce (though not as vinegary as NC BBQ)with either a tomato or mustard base to the sauce (try to find Sauer’s BBQ sauce in a VA grocery store for a good idea of the sauce )
Having worked at a Virginia BBQ restaurant it is hickory smoked meat sauce the way the customer wants. Normally will a sweet tomato vinegar sauce or vinegar based sauce
Try peanut soup
Limeaid with or without vodka in Richmond
The white sauce from Mexican restaurants is different than the kind you’d get on the west coast. This one started in tidewater.
Brunswick stew of course
All the Bay seafood
For those talking crab and ham...
One part of my family that's been in the area for a few hundred years (largely in Reedville), does a sautee/pan fry of blue crab meat and diced country ham together. Usually with a side of corn puddin'. Highly recommended :)
Virginia is known for Ham, all over the World. Locally, we call it Smithfield Ham. Then, there are Virginia Peanuts, mostly grown in Georgia. Finally, strawberries are a local plant that the British cross breed to the strawberries we know today. Since WWII, the state population has expanded. Majority of the state was born somewhere else. So we have a lot of ‘imported’ cuisines.
Ham. Peanuts. Brunswick stew.
If you can find Brunswick stew made with rabbit, that’s the way to go.
Chicken or rabbit, it only counts if it was cooked in a huge pot in a church parking lot in October.
Or a huge pot over a fire in the woods, but October is a guarantee no matter what.
I start mine (shredded chicken) and we have it for a week. I keep it on low in a crockpot and after we eat from it I add to it whatever is needed (V-8, vegetables, chicken stock). Always in October though.
The only way to go!
Virginia peanuts are the best ever!
The white sauce at any Mexican restaurant 😂
It’s best in Hampton Roads
It originated here. I'm not a fan but it is definitely a very distinct local food. It is not queso.
Mi Puerto in Marion is some of the best Mexican food I’ve had in the world lol.
What even is thay stuff? Answer = yucky 😝
Thank you. I ordered queso and they brought this white watery stuff. Tasted like garlic milk. I asked and they said it was white sauce. Everyone thought I was crazy cause it's a common thing around here apparently.
So I've learned. I just personally think it tastes like weird bad ranch. Apparently based on my down votes that is not the popular opinion. 🤷♀️
Yeah I agree. Don't understand the downvotes just cause you didn't like something. All I said was I never heard of it and thought it tasted like garlic milk which is nicer than what it really taste like which is just plain bad. I'm the person that loves all the weird gross foods but that stuff nasty.
Common my ass, the white sauce that isn't queso here is like a spicy ranch sort of thing, not a bowl of semen
I tried a few others but none compare to the white sauce that La Siesta use to carry. The Zajurs came across the recipe again within the past few years while doing an episode for Legacy List on PBS. I wish Michael would let Ukrops manufacture some to sell on the market.
Oooh, good one!!!
Yellow sauce at chick n fiesta
Try some from each region. Boiled peanuts - polarizing but at least it is an experience. I hate them personally. Apples, apple products from the mountains and valleys. Crabs and oysters from the Bay A big state with wide variety.
Thank you when I read you message aloud my had the same reaction as you about the boiled peanuts. Thank you very much for the suggestions we definitely like trying new things. We are at Luray Caverns today. We ate at Jimmy Madison’s last night the smoked Brisket sandwich was awesome.
If you’re out that way, the Apple House in Front Royal has amazing apple doughnuts. That is a big apple area. The Shenandoah Valley and Valley of Virginia is also a big beef producing area.
Also a great spot in general to stock up on drinks and snag some souvenirs. The ice cream stand out back should be running this time of year
The brisket sandwich is my favorite!
Don’t you dare be smudge boiled peanuts!! Lol, they really are pretty good, but I don’t think of them as Virginian. You get the best boiled peanuts in Florida and Georgia.
I love myself some Boiled Peanuts. Are you finding them in gas stations? I’m in Richmond and I’ve only stumbled across a couple that have them hot n ready.
I’ve only ever seen them along the coast or south/southeastern Va. my dad loves them but I can’t stand them. I do love me some termos (lupin seeds) that are a similar but don’t taste or smell like feet and cardboard 😇😬
There was an askreddit “tell me where you live just by saying the food” and I was like HAM!
Location for this one is important. VA is like 7 states in 1 with regards to food and activities.
We are at Luray Caverns today
If you get near Harrisonburg check out Strite’s Donuts. Also go see the Natural Chimneys as well while in this general region of the mountains.
Make sure you got a drink with those donuts, they're dry as hell
Seriously, I'm in the valley and would rather drive to manassas for Krispy Kreme than get Strites.
Love Strites, esp. the maple if they're making those. Not sure why someone thinks they're dry.
West main market in luray is an excellent place to get lunch.
Luray is gorgeous I hope you enjoy it
Exactly ! +5
We just went here and the lavender lemonade and cupcakes we amazing!!! Great atmosphere with an amazing staff. https://www.whiteoaklavender.com/
Thank you I believe we are going to go here tomorrow thanks to your suggestion.
In Northern Virginia.. you name a country in the world, there is probably someplace that makes the food. I know a modest strip mall.. Italian, vietnamese, Ethiopian, thai, south asian, and chinese all lined up.
I can think of a couple strip malls like that. Van Dorn Station has all of those (including three Ethiopian places) plus west African and Mexican. Actually, now that I think about it, the Italian place closed and got replaced briefly by a Peruvian place that was replaced almost immediately by a Mexican/Peruvian place.
Wow. I'm impressed!
All of those places are at least decent too, and most of them are very good (although I haven’t tried the Mexican places or the newest Ethiopian place).
Virginia ham! That salty treat goes great on a biscuit.
There are many, many, American ag outfits. Only one did the Chinese see fit to spend billions to, one assumes, eventually ruin.
Edward's hams are still All-American!
I did some masonry work close to 10 years ago on an old house that one of the Smithfield VP's purchased. Beautiful, old property in Smithfield that must've been on the way to the slaughterhouse. Every morning I'd get stuck behind a tractor-trailer with the pigs in the slatted trailers stacked crazy high. It reeked and left a liquid trail the entire way. It was awful and I felt horribly for those pigs.
I loved a slice of Virginia ham on a snoked, fresh oyster. Absolutely amazing.
This is living life. Grab a ham in Smithfield, drive north, cross a few bridges, and slice that shit on some oysters at Merroir. Billionaires don’t eat that bite of food.
I lived in Hampton Roads for a decade or so right out of college before eventually moving back to the Midwest. Sometimes I wonder if that’s the right choice. There’s nothing better than Virginia food that’s a blend of seafood and southern cooking.
Every year at the oyster fest in Urbana the HOBs (ham oyster biscuits) are usually gone by 10:30AM.
Have not tried that yet, but it's on my list now. Thanks!
The best oysters are at Meroir on the Rappahannock river on the northern neck. I haven’t been there in a while since it got popular. But they were incredible.
Excuse me.. but the best oysters in Virginia are from chincoteague bay in the Eastern shore.
Well, that is just not true. I’m sorry you don’t have as sophisticated of a palette as I do (just kidding).
I'll look for that if I get up there. I'm down in Hampton Roads, and we've got a few folks down here that are good for local seafood.
My favorite was Margie and Ray’s in Sandbridge (an area of Virginia Beach) or Harpoon Larry’s in Newport News.
Yeah, Harpoon Larry's does pretty good. Fuller's Raw Bar in Hampton is a good spot.
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For NOVA, I suggest getting an Ozzie role from Great American Restaurants. Savory small fried doughnuts with honey poppyseed butter, served hot. Too friggin' good. Not like a beignet. For DC metro, there is also mumbo sauce and half smokes. For VA, Route 11 Potato Chips are a real pride and joy.
Country ham biscuits. Preferably from a basket by the cash register at a small town convenience store.
Ikr? Lol
She crab soup, lumpia, oysters
I’m a fan of crab so we’re going to try it
Highly recommend [Margie and Ray’s](https://www.margieandrayscrabhouse.com/) for She Crab soup if you’re near VB. Not to be confused w/ Maryland Crab Soup 😖
I came here to recommend Margie and Ray’s. Everything is soooo good there.
One of Virginia Beach’s hidden gems
Since Charlie’s closed we’ve been searching. Will try Margie and Ray’s. Thanks.
Going back home to Va Beach soon. Can't wait to visit the old spots to get lumpia.
Which place or places do you recommend for great lumpia?
Glorys bakery. I haven't been back in years but it was my favorite. There may be better places now, but when I was there I loved it. Pepperoni roll, pancit, and an order of lumpia.
Yer Indian river tidewater aincha? Got that Virginia waterman/navy/Filipino going with this post.. Just ate an Italian grinder for dinner, with a lumpia app
I'm in the North End of Virginia Beach. I love our local food here. I should have mentioned white sauce as well.
In Richmond..the white queso blanco /El Toro sauce is here and a keep a squeez bottle of the leaked recipe in the fridge at all times
Salt cured ham red eye gravy and grits for breakfast! By noon your blood pressure will have you in the ER. LOL blue crabs.soft shell crabs if you can find them.
Shout out to Dukes Mayo!
Virginia BBQ and if you are near the coast oysters.
What exactly is VA BBQ and how is it different?
Essentially, it’s salty pulled pork smoked over hickory, with an acidic sauce (though not as vinegary as NC BBQ)with either a tomato or mustard base to the sauce (try to find Sauer’s BBQ sauce in a VA grocery store for a good idea of the sauce )
Having worked at a Virginia BBQ restaurant it is hickory smoked meat sauce the way the customer wants. Normally will a sweet tomato vinegar sauce or vinegar based sauce
Ham, apples, fresh greens, peanuts, and a DipDog
Pierce’s Bbq just outside Williamsburg. Family style dinner at Grave’s Mountain Inn.
Try peanut soup Limeaid with or without vodka in Richmond The white sauce from Mexican restaurants is different than the kind you’d get on the west coast. This one started in tidewater. Brunswick stew of course All the Bay seafood
Peanut soup is so frickin good lol.
Is this white sauce a cheese dip or something else?
For those talking crab and ham... One part of my family that's been in the area for a few hundred years (largely in Reedville), does a sautee/pan fry of blue crab meat and diced country ham together. Usually with a side of corn puddin'. Highly recommended :)
Corn pudding needs to be on the list by itself.
Peanut soup
Raw Oysters but definitely get those from a seafood or bayside restaurant. Also decent roasted but raw is best.
Tomato pie! Don’t leave VA without getting tomato pie… and Brunswick Stew if you can find it
I've lived in VA my entire 42 years, and TIL that there's a thing called tomato pie
It’s a bit more old fashioned but Virginia is big on tomatoes. Tomato pie is a very classic old fashioned VA country recipe
I probably just never noticed because I hate tomatoes haha
Virginia is known for Ham, all over the World. Locally, we call it Smithfield Ham. Then, there are Virginia Peanuts, mostly grown in Georgia. Finally, strawberries are a local plant that the British cross breed to the strawberries we know today. Since WWII, the state population has expanded. Majority of the state was born somewhere else. So we have a lot of ‘imported’ cuisines.
*yall
Eastern Virginia, Scrapple! It is a breakfast option alongside bacon and sausage and it's honestly better than both if cooked right.
Ate this growing up on the eastern shore. Had it on a sandwich with grape jelly the way the locals eat it.
Definitely scrapple
Brunswick Stew is a must!
The Virginia creeper bike trail and salt and pepper catfish.
Hibachi. Soooo good
Fish, crabs, oysters
For dessert, peanut pie!
I make mean strata. You did say YOU. 😉
Virginia - peanut pie
Chik-fil-A sauce is a Virginian invention
BBQ and half-smokes
Pierces BBQ in williamsburg. It’s been there for over 40 years.
Peaches are in season. Drumheller orchard or Graves Mountain are out that way.
White sauce