Melissa in NC Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I am the odd duck. I like mine with bacon bits and raisins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danestress Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 http://www.amazon.com/Good-Grits-Cookbook-Bill-Neal/dp/0894808656/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351199602&sr=8-1&keywords=good+old+grits I probably have used this cookbook more than any other I own. I love the grits corn bread. I eat my grits with butter and salt. But since we have been trying to eat lower carb, I don't really eat grits very often. They are a wonderful, flexible food though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I am interested in seeing how you like to eat your grits... I wasn't going to chime in, but then I realized that no one had pointed out that there isn't really a right or wrong way to eat wet sand. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted October 25, 2012 Author Share Posted October 25, 2012 I wasn't going to chime in, but then I realized that no one had pointed out that there isn't really a right or wrong way to eat wet sand. :tongue_smilie: :lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN Mama Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Cheesy! My niece is a professional chef, and I love love love her Shrimp 'n Grits! :iagree::iagree::iagree: If I am eating grits w/o shrimp, I'll take 'em cheesy & with garlic, please. Oh, they're good with bleu cheese, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN Mama Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Well that's interesting! I'm a lifelong Southerner as well, as are all my people and I've NEVER seen anyone but non-southerners put sugar on their grits. I've lived in NC, SC and deep down in MS, and have never seen it. Must be a TN thing :tongue_smilie: (I love TN and WISH I lived there, but I still wouldn't put sugar on my grits ;)) Of course, I've also only ever seen shrimp & grits served as a dinner meal, not breakfast, so what do I know? Oh, I wonder if it is. I'm a southerner and never, ever saw people eat grits w/sugar ... until I married my husband, a good ole Tennessean. Interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I voted "other" because I've never had them, but I wanted to vote.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I've only had grits once and didn't feel strongly about them either way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby Rose Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 With runny egg and bacon or sausage mixed in. Woowee good! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I think I ate grits once, maybe? I haven't eaten them enough to hate them or to have an opinion on seasonings. :iagree: I suppose I could cook grits in my current state though. They weren't exactly popular in Seattle or anywhere else I've lived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forget-Me-Not Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Other: Never had them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommaduck Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Shrimp and grits or butter and salt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaAkins Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I like them with butter and sugar. I like them with cheese and/or bacon. I've never eaten shrimp and grits, but I know it's popular in some areas. I make a baked cheese grits casserole that lots of people like, even people who had never eaten grits before. Would you care to share your casserole recipe? My southern husband would just die if this transplanted "Yankee" made him a casserole that involved grits!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacie Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I don't like them at all. I like malt o meal, sweet with bacon. DH likes grits with mayo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plath Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Lots of butter and a sprinkle of salt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I've never had grits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celia Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 ground corn, coarser than cornmeal, cooked in water or milk to make them creamy like oatmeal or cream of wheat. It's just another form of porridge. Thank you for the explanation! It doesn't sound like a very appealing dish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Thank you for the explanation! It doesn't sound like a very appealing dish! I think it's one of those things where you either love them or despise them. I'm from the South and think they're just nasty. My Yankee husband thinks they're delicious. Of course, he'll also eat stuff like....scrapple. :ack2: "Wet sand" is about the best thing I can say about grits. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkInTheBlue Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 The key to awesome grits is pour them in slow while stirring, stirring, stirring and then stir a bunch while cooking. Do NOT let them clump. Then add enough butter, salt, and pepper to eliminate any chance they ever had of being healthy! :) Two things I can't possibly imagine: making grits sweet (?????) and not liking grits (again, ?????). :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkInTheBlue Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Great! Now I've got to go in the kitchen at 10 o'clock at night and make a bowl of grits. There should be restrictions about food topics showing on the board after a certain hour. 5 minutes ago I was reading the Halloween candy thread wanting candy. You all apparently have WAY too much influence on me! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Cheese grits are tasty, but I prefer my hominy in posole form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom in High Heels Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I'm disappointed in this thread. I thought it would turn into the great grit kerfluffle (or kefuffle, if you prefer), though the cupcakes kind of took that name, so maybe Grit Gate, would have been more appropriate. People have been too kind! I can't believe how many people in the South have never heard of sweet grits. I've lived in 6 southern states at various points (though, I'm still iffy on how "southern" FL is) and everyone eats them with milk and sugar. I've been to restaurants for b'fast where they've asked if you want them with butter or sugar and milk. How odd. One of my German friends when we were in Heidelberg was obsessed with grits. Her hubby (army) was from the south and she had grits for the first time when she went to meet his family. She loved them. The only way she'd had them was with milk and sugar. I don't know how we came on the subject (how does one start talking about grits?) and I mentioned how different they taste depending on what kind of cheese you put in them. She was shocked! Cheese in grits? What devilry is this? I saw her dh a few days later and he told me I was never to talk to her about grits again, because they'd had them every day, including for dinner, since we'd talked. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 other. I don't know what grits are. they are not something that is eaten in Australia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted October 26, 2012 Author Share Posted October 26, 2012 DH likes grits with mayo. WHAT!!! That IS NASTY! The one way of preparing grits that I have never heard of. Where is he from anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I'm weird. I like mine just sweetened, no butter. I basically treat them like oatmeal. (Please be kind. I wasn't raised in the South.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbeym Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Butter and salt. Maybe cheese - I haven't tried it with cheese yet. Not sugar, ever. It's grits, not cream-of-wheat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountitallJoy Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 From Chapter 2 of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South, I offer an end to this sweet grits nonsense once and for all! :D "It is a lucky Southerner who can find grits at all in a Northern restaurant, and an even luckier one if the restaurant knows how to make them from scratch rather than dumping a packet of instant grits into a bowl. Southerners have always found it puzzling and disgusting that Northerners, if faced with grits, will inevitably put sugar on them. Every Southerner knows that the thing to be done with a mound of grits is to form a depression in the center of the mound, drop in two pats of butter so the heat of the grits melts them, liberally add salt and pepper, and then mix in the butter. Southerners also know that cheese and grits is a match made in Southern heaven." ALL IN FUN, ladies, no offense intended! http://www.thepoliticallyincorrectguidetothesouth.com/images/PIGSouthCh2.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyofsixreboot Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Butter and sugar never hurt anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountitallJoy Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Butter and sugar never hurt anything. 'cept grits... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamajo Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I was here last night and can't believe this grits conversation is still going on. It obviously affected me as I went out this morning to get the slow cooked grits and made them for the very first time according to Paula Deen. I only used cheddar cheese and didn't add the eggs. I used water not chicken broth. I made a fried egg instead with bacon and toast. OMG...delicious. The cheese inside is fine but I didn't like the cheese on top. I did add sugar and it was just too bland without it. Had more for lunch:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 We ate some cheesy grits (organic at that :)) in a casserole type dish. Actually, it was really pretty good :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Never had 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted October 26, 2012 Author Share Posted October 26, 2012 I was here last night and can't believe this grits conversation is still going on. It obviously affected me as I went out this morning to get the slow cooked grits and made them for the very first time according to Paula Deen. I only used cheddar cheese and didn't add the eggs. I used water not chicken broth. I made a fried egg instead with bacon and toast. OMG...delicious. The cheese inside is fine but I didn't like the cheese on top. I did add sugar and it was just too bland without it. Had more for lunch:D welcome to the grits club. Glad to have broadened your palate a bit. :D:D:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 With sharo cheddar cheese and garlic, please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellers Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I don't think I've ever had grits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeturn Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 In the mornings with a nice, runny egg or two on top. Or with butter and salt. If I am having fried fish I like them cheesy. :D Oatmeal is sweetened, not grits. Have never eaten cream of wheat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marylou Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Lots of butter with lots of salt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 So I'm sitting here eating grits for probably the second time in my life after picking some up at the store today. I tried some with sugar and some with salt (and both had butter since that seemed to be approved by everyone). I really like both ways. A lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Copious amounts of butter & salt, typically. Once in awhile I'll splurge with some cheese ~ yum! I'm sorry, but no self-respecting Southerner EVER puts sugar on grits. It's just. not. done. :tongue_smilie: FairFarmHand, you really should try shrimp & grits ~ they are amazing when made properly! :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngieW in Texas Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I love grits with plenty of butter and Serendipity seasoning salt. Sweet grits sound absolutely disgusting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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