Grits

[shitgoose]

I know they are very common in the South but feel they are an underrated breakfast food.

Tough to beat some cheese grits and bacon.


Feel free to proclaim your love for grits in this thread and this thread only. If you find that you don't like grits or have something unpleasant to say about grits please exit this thread immediately.

TIA

[notorious]

Yes, I love grits.

Shrimp and bacon grits in the south is unbelievable.

[NewChief]

Garlic cheese grits. Baked with some eggs added to give more body. Grew up on them.

[threebag]

Yeah grits are the awesome

[Boise_Chief]

I don't think I have ever had decent grits. The only times I have had them thwy were remarkably similar to school paste.

[Dartgod]

I like grits, too. How do you cook your grits? Do you like them regular, creamy or al dente?

[Baby Lee]

Not as big a fan of the semi-solid oeuvre [grits, risotto, polenta, oatmeal, etc] as some seem to be, but grits is the best of the bunch. Especially a good savory shrimp grits.

[Pepe Silvia]

I like grits, too. How do you cook your grits? Do you like them regular, creamy or al dente?

I take pride in my grits.

[Bugeater]

Kiss my grits.

[Chromatic]

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[TimBone]

I like grits, too. How do you cook your grits? Do you like them regular, creamy or al dente?
Regular, I guess.

[tk13]

No self respecting southerner uses instant grits.

[srvy]

Can we talk about corn mush?

[Pepe Silvia]

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I'd give someone 100 bucks if they ate that whole scoop of lard.

[Buzz]

No self respecting southerner uses instant grits.

Yea, never seen them at Aldi...

[FlaChief58]

Eww gross, right on par with boiled peanuts

[eDave]

Official breakfast of the KKK.

[BullJunkandIron]

Eww gross, right on par with boiled peanuts

Bald peanuts suck balls.

[Buzz]

Eww gross, right on par with boiled peanuts

Could I interest you with salty nutz?

[Baby Lee]

Official breakfast of the KKK.

Of what conceivable use is this shit?

[BullJunkandIron]

Informative

[eDave]

Of what conceivable use is this shit?

Trying to get your god damned attention. You've been back for around 2 weeks and you haven't once said hello. I am hurt. That's all. Especially since I'm the only one who missed you.

[NewChief]

How to make amazing grits:

Make some grits per instructions on box
Add in a bunch of cheddar cheese and melt it in.
Add in some fresh garlic to taste
Add a bunch of butter
Whisk a couple of eggs and mix with some milk and add to mixture
Pour into greased casserole dish and bake until set.
Top with more cheese toward end of baking.

Really turns out more like a polenta. Can be cut into squares and reheated throughout week with various dishes.

[Donger]

I've never had grits. I'm not even sure what they are. Nor do I care to know.

[NewChief]

Oh. And that recipe originally called for Kraft Garlic Cheese in a tube which is no longer made.

[Rasputin]

Kiss my grits.

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[Buzz]

Trying to get your god damned attention. You've been back for around 2 weeks and you haven't once said hello. I am hurt. That's all. Especially since I'm the only one who missed you.


Why would miss Mr. Frumpy Stink Eye?

[TimBone]

I've never had grits. I'm not even sure what they are. Nor do I care to know.
Hominy

[Fishpicker]

I love grits. I don't adulterate them with cheese and butter. a little salt and pepper is perfect. if there is cheese already in the grits, I'm not going to make a stink about it.


Add in a bunch of cheddar cheese and melt it in.
Top with more cheese toward end of baking.


I think you are a fan of everything but the grits

[Fire Me Boy!]

Hominy


That's a specific type of grit. And not a good one at that. Stone ground or GTFO.

[TimBone]

That's a specific type of grit. And not a good one at that. Stone ground or GTFO.
Wtf....was this your first post back? Did my post bring you out of hiding?

[Buzz]

That's a specific type of grit. And not a good one at that. Stone ground or GTFO.

Welcome back.

[TimBone]

Welcome back, btw.

[NewChief]

I love grits. I don't adulterate them with cheese and butter. a little salt and pepper is perfect. if there is cheese already in the grits, I'm not going to make a stink about it.



I think you are a fan of everything but the grits

Nah. I eat them plain with salt, pepper and eggs as well. I grew up eating garlic cheese grits as described though. Just had those this weekend actually cooked by my 75 year old mother for my brothers and all our kids.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Moved to Charlotte, NC and worked for Citifinancial. Southern black gentleman that suggested grits and cheese with shrimp to me. Fell in love and never had anything like it since. Have a sad, missing it.

[tk13]

We almost had a My Cousin Vinny thread going, but it was hijacked.

[cdcox]

Boursin cheese grits.

[TimBone]

I had some bomb ass Shrimp and Grits in New Orleans a few months ago.

Not sure if they were hominy or stone ground, FMB.

[cdcox]

We almost had a My Cousin Vinny thread going, but it was hijacked.

Excuse me, you guys down here hear about the ongoing cholesterol problem in the country?

[Rasputin]

I've never had grits. I'm not even sure what they are. Nor do I care to know.

Oh yeah you are a bloody Britt. This thread is not for you.

[Baby Lee]

Why would miss Mr. Frumpy Stink Eye?

Dafuq did I ever do to you?

[Buzz]

Dafuq did I ever do to you?

Nothing, 2 way street my friend. It's all good.

[Baby Lee]

Nothing, 2 way street my friend. It's all good.

Didn't sound all good. But by all means, go on with your bad self.

Now to get myself out of whatever thoroughfare I'm apparently on.

[Buzz]

Didn't sound all good. But by all means, go on with your bad self.

Now to get myself out of whatever thoroughfare I'm apparently on.

beer is in the fridge, help yourself.

[listopencil]

Can we talk about corn mush?


I prefer it over grits.

[Just Passin' By]

I'm a bit of a heretic with grits. I like to add a bit of maple syrup to mine.

[cosmo20002]

Don't feel like reading thread. If Q, fuck off.

Flo was such a whore!
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[Fire Me Boy!]

I had some bomb ass Shrimp and Grits in New Orleans a few months ago.

Not sure if they were hominy or stone ground, FMB.

Best grits I make... caramelize sliced onions in butter, add liquid (5:1 ratio liquid to grits, I like milk and chicken stock), slowly whisk grits and cook for 30 seconds. Put it all in a crock pot on low for 4 hours. Finish with butter and season to taste.

Super creamy, no cheese needed.

[NewChief]

I had some bomb ass Shrimp and Grits in New Orleans a few months ago.

Not sure if they were hominy or stone ground, FMB.

I really like the tabasco recipe shrimp and grits. It features ridiculous amounts of bacon, but it's damned good.

I should add that I don't prepare the grits like they say, but I do the shrimp per their recipe.

http://www.tabasco.com/tabasco-recipes/recipe/379/shrimp-and-grits/

[srvy]

I know they are very common in the South but feel they are an underrated breakfast food.

Tough to beat some cheese grits and bacon.


Feel free to proclaim your love for grits in this thread and this thread only. If you find that you don't like grits or have something unpleasant to say about grits please exit this thread immediately.

TIA

This explains your name Shitgoose!

[BucEyedPea]

I know they are very common in the South but feel they are an underrated breakfast food.

Tough to beat some cheese grits and bacon.


Feel free to proclaim your love for grits in this thread and this thread only. If you find that you don't like grits or have something unpleasant to say about grits please exit this thread immediately.

TIA

Love only the stone ground but love with shrimp, cheese and bacon!

[BucEyedPea]

Oh, and I despised grits until June 2014 when I had some stoneground ones for breakfast in Thomasville Georgia. Really creamy and flavorful. So then tried some shrimp and veggie ones for lunch there later too. Also very good. Completely reversed my opinion about grits.

[BucEyedPea]

I'm a bit of a heretic with grits. I like to add a bit of maple syrup to mine.

What's wrong with that?

[Nzoner]

I eat them with milk and sugar

[Pablo]

I have never had grits. They don't look appetizing and I'm not one for hot slop to start my morning. My grandma fed me malt-o-meal when I was a kid. I don't know what the fuck that was exactly, but she dumped milk and sugar in it and I remember thinking it was OK.

[Fish]

I have never had grits. They don't look appetizing and I'm not one for hot slop to start my morning. My grandma fed me malt-o-meal when I was a kid. I don't know what the fuck that was exactly, but she dumped milk and sugar in it and I remember thinking it was OK.

Same crap, just with wheat instead of corn. It was always forced on us kids, cause it was so good for us. But it had the consistency of baby shit, and tasted like cardboard, so they had to bury it in sugar/honey just to get us to eat it. Kinda cancelled out the whole "It's so good for you" thing...

[Fire Me Boy!]

I don't know about the cream of wheat, but it's almost guaranteed those grits were instant, which are utter garbage. IMHO, it takes someone that's respecting the ingredient and giving it time and love to get good grits. It took me 7 years in the South to find grits that I like, and once I figured out few things, it's easy to get good grits now.

[scho63]

Lack of grits-that's the reason we lost on Thursday night.

[BucEyedPea]

Lack of grits-that's the reason we lost on Thursday night.

You mean they lacked True Grit?

[ModSocks]

I love me some grits. Just gimmie salt, pepper & butter.

Perfect breakfast:

Grits
Eggs (over medium)
Bacon
Biscuit n' gravy
Cold glass of OJ.....

Mmmm......

[Baby Lee]

I love me some grits. Just gimmie salt, pepper & butter.

Perfect breakfast:

Grits
Eggs (over medium)
Bacon
Biscuit n' gravy
Cold glass of OJ.....

Mmmm......

Grits AND B&G?

Give me Grits with butter and fresh cracked pepper, Eggs over easy dashed with Tabasco, crispy bacon, and hash browns with a little diced onion scattered in. Coffee black.

[R8RFAN]

Fried Grits
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[Terribilis]

Finally. A good thread.

[aturnis]

Looked for grits at the store. All I found were Quaker Oats instant, and a generic Hominy. I'll continue the search for stone ground...

[Dayze]

dude, real properly made grits are the bomb.

I don't necessarily know how to make them properly, but whatever they do to them in the south is awesome. I've had them in Mobile, AL and Pensacola, FL and they were kick ass.

I've had them up here in KC, and while they weren't awful, they didn't make me loose my shit like they did down there.

[srvy]

dude, real properly made grits are the bomb.

I don't necessarily know how to make them properly, but whatever they do to them in the south is awesome. I've had them in Mobile, AL and Pensacola, FL and they were kick ass.

I've had them up here in KC, and while they weren't awful, they didn't make me loose my shit like they did down there.
Southern Mo or Arkansas you will find same as deep South.

[MahiMike]

Cheese doesn't go in grits man. What are you thinking?

[srvy]

This love affair with steel cut has got to go. When I was a kid everything was steel cut oats. It was so much better when instant came along and you didnt have to start boiling them 30 minutes in advance. Steel cut oats taste to oatie and I am sure steel cut grits taste to gritty. Shits and Grits rhyme i see a pattern here.

[shitgoose]

Cheese doesn't go in grits man. What are you thinking?

Cheese in my grit
Mr Mahi Mike
I give no shit
If you don't like

[notorious]

Looked for grits at the store. All I found were Quaker Oats instant, and a generic Hominy. I'll continue the search for stone ground...

You won't find shit in the midwest.


The Quaker Oats butter aren't bad, but avoid the other flavors like the plague.

[hometeam]

I had some incredible shrimp and grits down on the landing in Branson this weekend.

Fucking heaven!

[Fire Me Boy!]

This love affair with steel cut has got to go. When I was a kid everything was steel cut oats. It was so much better when instant came along and you didnt have to start boiling them 30 minutes in advance. Steel cut oats taste to oatie and I am sure steel cut grits taste to gritty. Shits and Grits rhyme i see a pattern here.


Could not disagree more. Instant oats and grits suck ass. Steel cut are far superior, even if they take a little longer to cook.

[srvy]

Could not disagree more. Instant oats and grits suck ass. Steel cut are far superior, even if they take a little longer to cook.

I dont like grits or oats enough to waste my time on cooking steel cut.


Welcome back FMB its been to long dont do it again. Hope the health is better and your on that kidney list.

[Dayze]

Southern Mo or Arkansas you will find same as deep South.

:hmmm:

[srvy]

:hmmm:

I know your thinking geographical but all my travels for work and plenty of it down south or dirty south as some call it there is only one way to tell. If you order 2 chirping bacon toast and coffee and plate arrives with grits you know your in the deep south. When you dont eat them they politely ask was something wrong with your grits? When I politely tell them I don't care for grits you get this look of disgust and who does this damn Yankee thank he is. If you are in the South and they ask hash browns or grits your not in the deep south or in a large southern city.

[Fire Me Boy!]

I know your thinking geographical but all my travels for work and plenty of it down south or dirty south as some call it there is only one way to tell. If you order 2 chirping bacon toast and coffee and plate arrives with grits you know your in the deep south. When you dont eat them they politely ask was something wrong with your grits? When I politely tell them I don't care for grits you get this look of disgust and who does this damn Yankee thank he is. If you are in the South and they ask hash browns or grits your not in the deep south or in a large southern city.


It's funny because it's true. You could also change out every grit reference in that post with sweet tea vs. tea and it'd be accurate, as well.

[R8RFAN]

steel cut oats , put them in your crock pot on low before you go to bed and they will be ready when you get up

[Fire Me Boy!]

steel cut oats , put them in your crock pot on low before you go to bed and they will be ready when you get up


I've heard this before and even tried it once. Did not work.

[ModSocks]

Grits AND B&G?

Give me Grits with butter and fresh cracked pepper, Eggs over easy dashed with Tabasco, crispy bacon, and hash browns with a little diced onion scattered in. Coffee black.

Ahh the hashbrowns. Knew i was missing something...

[BigOlChiefsfan]

There's a scene in the Grapes of Wrath, IIRC, where there's a family of EYE-talians camped next to some hillbillies. They wind up with a brace of rabbits and share 'em out, along with some cornmeal. The Italian mama-mia stews her rabbit up, and makes a pot of polenta to serve w/the rabbit stew. The Hillbilly folks fry their rabbit up and make a pan of good cornbread. They each look over at the other camp and are disgusted that 'those fools wasted that good food!'
Technically, hominy grits - made from hominy rather than 'plain corn' - can benefit folks suffering from pellagra. It's a disease we don't see in the US anymore, it's basically a vitamin B3 deficency. If you turn plain corn into hominy, the process releases some B vitamins - and improves the health of 'peasants' who live on corn, think rural South, or South America. Anyway, hominy exists for a reason and if you don't like it - cool - just remember it saved a lot of lives in the past.
Cheese grits/garlic cheese grits are my personal favorite version - let me recommend Threadgills in Austin to anyone wanting to try good garlic cheese grits. Here's a recipe for their version: http://www.food.com/recipe/threadgills-garlic-cheese-grits-195701

[HonestChieffan]

Grits made from heirloom corn are amazing. It is what they use at Rye in Overland Park and canbe purchased from Anson Mills online.

[tooge]

One of the best things I've ever eaten was crawfish etoufee over grits down in Florida. Creamy grits with an insanely deep flavored tomato based etoufee. Holy shit it was good.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Grits made from heirloom corn are amazing. It is what they use at Rye in Overland Park and canbe purchased from Anson Mills online.

We have a local farm and granary that supplies grits to several of the higher end restaurants in Montgomery. They are very, very tasty. I'm trying to find out what kind of corn they are, but they're very comparable to Anson Mills. And since I can't get Anson Mills unless I order online, I'll go for the locals. :)

[hometeam]

Yall got me cravin grits again this morning

[Fire Me Boy!]

Yall got me cravin grits again this morning

Try my method for savory grits. No cheese needed, and super creamy. You need real grits (stone ground, preferably), though, none of that instant or "quick" stuff.