Posted on 03/17/2009 6:27:36 PM PDT by deport
That's why when I said that I bought 30 pounds of grits, I really meant to say that I bought 30 pounds of polenta, I'm a happening fellow.
How gritty!
Shrimp and gravy are also awesome on Grits.
If any of y’all go to Charleston, the Vickery, one downtown and the other at Shem Creek in Mt. Pleasant, do a Low Country Saute served over the most delicious creamy grits ever!!!
My Mother was from south Alabama, grits are a staple. Never convinced wife of that though.
I am topsail’s wife. I am from the Phillipines. I grew up in Manila, but my parents were from Cebu. I have learned eating grits when I was a little girl visiting in Cebu. People in the southern part of the Philippines knows grits, but people from Manila do not know about grits.
My husband and I enjoy eating grits, bacon, eggs, and spam for breakfast.
Oh no! A good hard fried slice of spam goes great with breakfast food! Heck, when we get real desperate, we’ll slice a hot dog in half and fry them.
That is indeed what Vinny said ... thanks for pointing out the post. I must have missed it.
I love rice pudding made from left over rice.
“It’s dried hominy. Corn that has been treated by a mild acid.”
Hominy is not corn treated by a mild acid - is is corn treated with lye, sodium hydroxide, an alkaline substance. Hominy made right is good. Hominy, dried and coarse ground makes hominy grits.
This alkalizing process makes corn much more nutritional. Corn tortillas are made from corn so treated and ground into flour.
“We called the evening meal supper...”
So did we. And the noon meal was dinner! I’m still in that mode.
“I love rice pudding made from left over rice.”
Yum! Thats some good eatin’ Lonestar. You must be from Jasper! LOL!
I LOVE GRITS!!!
RE: “GRITS: What are grits?”
Hmmm.. this American of Italian heritage defines grits as polenta ;-)
For the longest time I had no idea what Grits were. Then I found out that ‘Grits’ is the name for members of the Liberal Party of Canada. Based on that, I find this thread confusing.
I’m a born-and-bred rural coastal Californian, five generations. First time I ever tasted real grits was in the South (Georgia, I believe) when I was in my late 30s. Have LOVED them ever since. Salt and butter — nothing else does them justice. I miss that I can’t find anything but pifitul instant grits in the stores here in CA. I lived in Florida for a few years and all the grocery stores had real grits. I got spoiled. *sigh*
I was working in N.Dakota...first morning there..stopped at a restaurant to get breakfast.Told the waitress..”Gime three eggs over easy ,biscuits and gray,hash browns,sausage,grits and cup of coffee”.
She looked at me and said,”I can get you almost anything you want but you ain’t getting any grits in this state southern boy.”
We have cornbread with chili also and the blackeye peas are made with ham so there kind of the same as your northerns and ham.
BTW, you’re close.
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