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Looking for recommendations for what would make the best meatless alternatives to the constituent ingredient is many soul food dishes, including salt pork, tripe, bacon drippings, turtle meat, rabbit, and possum.
Also, if any of you have recipes for vegetarian soul food options, please share.
(I am vegan.) Replacing for specific meat products is usually going to fail because the replacements, while often tasty and well textured, are going to be differently textured and flavored than the original ingredients. You might have success with vegan/vegetarian bacons, but in my experience these are passable only when fried to a crisp (as for breakfast), and they won't work in the same way as bacon is probably used in a soul food context (e.g. the fat rendered off as a base of a stew).
Your best bet is to avoid soul food recipes which are meat-heavy, replace animal fats with vegan/vegetarian margarine or oil, and replace meat-based flavors with vegetables (vegetable broth, garlic, onions). If you must make vegetarian versions of meat dishes, you should try visiting a large asian market, where you should be able to find false ham, at least, or a whole foods/natural foods store where you should be able to find some seitan (wheat gluten-based) products which are intended as meat replacements. You will surely not find vegetarian products specifically targeting salt pork or possum.
Another good resource for vegan soul food recipes: The Yellow Rose Cookbook by Joanna Vaught.
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