Or nearly all-cream, anyway. A new friend and I had been planning to cook for each other for awhile, and so we decided that we would each make heritage food from scratch. She made a German main course, side, and dessert, and I made two Southern sides and a dessert. This is what that translated to:

• German cream chicken
• Mashed potatoes with sour cream
• Cream gravy
• Cream pickles (new to me, and very good)
• Black-eyed peas, cooked with bacon
• Collard, turnip, and mustard greens, all cooked with bacon and then doused with butter
• Blueberry kuchen with cream crust and cream in the filling
• Banana cream pie made with half-and-half and whole milk and then topped with whipped cream