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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #100 on: December 11, 2013, 10:44:46 AM »
Every time I see this thread, I think back to my childhood and momma's fine breakfast feasts. Hot grits from local grown and water ground yellow corn, sausages(ham or bacon) made from the hogs we grew, scrambled eggs from the chickens on the yard, milk and home made butter from the milk cows in the pasture, big old hot bisquits made with Southern Mills flour home made butter milk and full of home made lard baked just right.

....then I'd fill the hot grits with salt, pepper and butter.....stir until well mixed, then chop up the eggs and sausages(ham or bacon) and mix it all together. A spoonful of mix, a bite of bisquit and wash it  all down with a cold glass of fresh non homogenized, non pasteurized milk. Then topped off with several bisquits filled with home made butter and home made jelly, jam, perserves.

Couldn't gain an ounce back then but I gained three pounds just now just thinking about it.

I don't remember the grits, but when visiting my grandparents farm, we had great meals.  Grandma baked bread and biscuits almost every morning with homemade butter.  The problem for me was, if I didn't get up early enough to eat when it was served, it was all gone.
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #101 on: December 11, 2013, 11:01:42 AM »
Bingo.

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I would argue that wallpaper paste must taste like, well, wallpaper paste. Maybe if I put cheese, or bacon, or eggs, or salt or pepper in wallpaper paste it would taste like those items?

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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #102 on: December 11, 2013, 11:06:30 AM »
We just used to eat grits because we were poor and couldn't afford anything else.  Haha

We would only get bacon once a week.
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #103 on: December 11, 2013, 10:08:27 PM »
Every time I see this thread, I think back to my childhood and momma's fine breakfast feasts. Hot grits from local grown and water ground yellow corn, sausages(ham or bacon) made from the hogs we grew, scrambled eggs from the chickens on the yard, milk and home made butter from the milk cows in the pasture, big old hot bisquits made with Southern Mills flour home made butter milk and full of home made lard baked just right.

....then I'd fill the hot grits with salt, pepper and butter.....stir until well mixed, then chop up the eggs and sausages(ham or bacon) and mix it all together. A spoonful of mix, a bite of bisquit and wash it  all down with a cold glass of fresh non homogenized, non pasteurized milk. Then topped off with several bisquits filled with home made butter and home made jelly, jam, perserves.

Couldn't gain an ounce back then but I gained three pounds just now just thinking about it.

I used to mix up my grits just like that.  Still do when I get a chance.
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #104 on: December 12, 2013, 09:31:57 PM »
Thank you.  I'm going to look up a recipe for cheesy grits right now.  I think that might be interesting to try for Sunday.

So, how did you like cheesy grits?
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #105 on: December 13, 2013, 05:59:00 AM »
So, how did you like cheesy grits?

(Let me try to figure out the quote function -- old dog, new tricks)

I found that the more things you add to grits, the better they taste.  Or maybe it's just distracting the taste buds.   :naughty:
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #106 on: December 13, 2013, 06:03:57 AM »
(Let me try to figure out the quote function -- old dog, new tricks)

I found that the more things you add to grits, the better they taste.  Or maybe it's just distracting the taste buds.   :naughty:

Grits are po' folks' food, like boiled potatoes, rice, oatmeal, or beans.

They serve their purpose- fill hungry bellies, feed a family, keep working people working.

I like 'em.
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #107 on: December 13, 2013, 08:06:53 AM »
Grits are po' folks' food, like boiled potatoes, rice, oatmeal, or beans.

They serve their purpose- fill hungry bellies, feed a family, keep working people working.

I like 'em.

My husband likes them too.  We have an arrangement when we go somewhere that serves them.  He trades his sausage gravy for my grits.  I think I get the best of that bargain. 
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #108 on: December 13, 2013, 08:37:08 AM »
I don't eat much for breakfast during the week, but watch out on the weekend---

Nothing better than 2 eggs over easy, country ham or bacon, biscuits and sauage gravy, grits, orange juice and lots of black coffee, then I'm good until dinner.







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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #109 on: December 13, 2013, 08:41:27 AM »
I don't eat much for breakfast during the week, but watch out on the weekend---

Nothing better than 2 eggs over easy, country ham or bacon, biscuits and sauage gravy, grits, orange juice and lots of black coffee, then I'm good until dinner.



You must come from my part of the country.  That looks like Sunday morning breakfast around here. 
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #110 on: December 13, 2013, 08:46:01 AM »
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #111 on: December 13, 2013, 08:55:44 AM »
Up here, winter -4 degrees outside and my family flipped meals.

One grandparents home had just registers up stairs and a coal furnace.  Early morning the windows had ice on the inside of the windows.

Breakfast was what we would eat for supper, rolls, some kind of meat, boiled potatoes and a vegetable.

Supper would be what we ate for breakfast, bacon, eggs, toast, a hot cereal, pancakes, OJ, hot chocolate.

 cream of wheat or rice, oatmeal, Maypo, but never Grits.  

Seems to me that when in a hospital I tried different foods and fell in love with them, one of the few upsides of spending a week in those ghastly places.

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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #112 on: December 13, 2013, 09:18:13 AM »
My great-grandmother and grandmother lived together and also had a coal furnace with exchanges upstairs.  I used to love to sit next to the furnace, it was the only warm place in the house at times.  I remember when they finally got an out house.  I guess there aren't too many people who have those memories much any more.
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #113 on: December 13, 2013, 11:11:06 AM »
  I read that grits are real  good for getting your car unstuck from mud or snow .

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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #114 on: December 13, 2013, 11:18:21 AM »
  I read that grits are real  good for getting your car unstuck from mud or snow .

Thought that was cat litter?
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« Reply #115 on: December 13, 2013, 12:27:15 PM »
  That too... :-)

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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #116 on: December 13, 2013, 02:17:04 PM »
http://carolinagrits.com/

There roated grits.............OMG  :drool:
 
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #117 on: December 13, 2013, 08:14:38 PM »
My husband likes them too.  We have an arrangement when we go somewhere that serves them.  He trades his sausage gravy for my grits.  I think I get the best of that bargain. 

Do you have a Waffle House or Huddle House in your neck of the woods?

I've had grits and gravy at both (Huddle House a short morning's ride from my house)
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #118 on: December 13, 2013, 08:35:04 PM »
Do you have a Waffle House or Huddle House in your neck of the woods?

I've had grits and gravy at both (Huddle House a short morning's ride from my house)

That's funny!  My hubby just recently introduced me to Waffle House and their incredible biscuits with gravy.  I've never seen anyone slice and grill the biscuits before.  That makes it really, really good.  I do that at home now.
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #119 on: December 15, 2013, 12:11:31 PM »
I don't think I have ever had grits.

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« Reply #120 on: December 15, 2013, 12:12:22 PM »
I had them once.  They just tasted like wet corn.
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #121 on: December 15, 2013, 01:59:31 PM »
I had them once.  They just tasted like wet corn.
Not enough salt and butter.
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #122 on: December 16, 2013, 02:34:23 PM »
We would have grits (seasoned with butter, salt, & pepper) with fried fish (Red breast or Brim)...loved it :drool:

While working at the Waffle House, I would eat a grits bowl almost every day. Bacon, scrambled or over-medium eggs, and butter. Yum Yum.
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #123 on: December 31, 2013, 02:53:40 PM »
Love "Awful" House.

There's one out by the airport and when my son would come home on leave, we had to stop there direct from the airport so he could get his "fix"...  :-)  Apparently there was nothing in the Washington area to compare, and certainly nothing on shipboard.
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Re: Grits. What can you do with them?
« Reply #124 on: December 31, 2013, 03:03:24 PM »
Love "Awful" House.

There's one out by the airport and when my son would come home on leave, we had to stop there direct from the airport so he could get his "fix"...  :-)  Apparently there was nothing in the Washington area to compare, and certainly nothing on shipboard.
I went there yesterday while I was having my car serviced.  I almost considered ordering grits.
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