What are popular and favorite recipes of your family and region?

What are popular and favorite recipes of your family and region, and how do they differ or stand out from other families and places?

My husband and I talked about this the other day. Our moms both made something called "city chicken," which I actually think was some sort of pork on skewers. I think it's a midwest thing, LOL.

The most popular dish in my family was my grandma's Chicken Paprikash. Although I've seen recipes for it online, I've never found one that was "right." Grandma wrote it down for me once, but it was so vague ("cook until it looks right") that I could never reproduce it.

The recipes in my home growing up were recipes from Greece. They are still used and handed down to people of Greek ancestry.....pastichio, musaka, spanikopeta, are just a few. Greek church food festivals are very popular through out the United States.

I live in the beef triangle of the world in Kansas. More beef are raised in feedlots and slaughtered in packing plants in Southwest Kansas than any place in the world. Thus, beef is king in our part of the country. The best steaks in the USA can be had here. Because my mother's family came from Tennessee and because I grew up on a farm, I grew up on a lot of Southern dishes along with good old farm harvest hand cooking. Not necessarily healthy, but it filled you up.

My family loved my mom's strawberry shortcake and strawberry pie. Also chicken and waffles w gravy, a typical PA Dutch recipe

Chicken and dumplings and soup beans were Kentucky recipes we enjoyed.

Raised in Minnesota with Scandinavian heritage you couldn't celebrate the holidays without lutefisk, lefse, and krumkakke.

My family is from the South. We consider fried chicken, butter beans, rice/milk gravy, and fried cornbread served with sweet tea to be a traditional home cooked meal!

Having traveled all over the US during my younger years there was no particular recipes that went with us. My Mom just a terrible cook - I mean really really bad - did not gather any recipes as we moved from region to region and therefore had nothing to hand down to me.

I did pick up a few good recipes from my Mother in law, but she was an old southern cook that drenched everything in oil or lard, so not a lot of her recipes stayed with me either.

The region that stayed with me for my favorite food was the southwest - Mexican food. The Mexican food that it seems you can only get in the Texas and Mexico area. Much different than your local restaurants or chain restaurants.