The Grits Appreciation Thread

[Jill1228]

Butter, salt and pepper. Every once in a while I like cheese on them. No eggs (I hate eggs....ewwwwww).

Mr. 1228 and the kid love when I get a chance to make Sunday brunch and I do my biscuits, sausage gravy and grits (I make a pretty good sausage gravy).

No instant grits though.....that is WRONG!

Of course in Western Canada they are damn near impossible to find and I have to go to Bellingham or Blaine, WA to get biscuits and/or grits

[sigmagrrl]

I like-y grits!!!

I think I will have some with brekkie on Sunday! Eggs, bacon, grits, and a bagel (hey, have to honor my Jewish BF!)

[SapphireSphinx9]

my grandma makes pretty good grits!! although i've never had any body elses - guess that's because i live in southern california! haha!!!

she puts butter and salt on them. the cheese and bacon sounds really good... may have to ask her to make those, next time.

[GMUBunny]

Originally posted by Jill1228
Of course in Western Canada they are damn near impossible to find and I have to go to Bellingham or Blaine, WA to get biscuits and/or grits

Jill, you're just going to have to come home to good ol Virginia and let me whip up a big breakfast with slow-cooked grits! We'll throw in some good Surry ham, homemade biscuits and gravy, and maybe some cinnamon apples, too (my grandma makes the best). Man, I'm getting hungry just thinkin about it. Mr. Bunny is from upstate NY and is going through culture shock with the amount of butter we use in our food down here. He does like grits, though so I can't say he's all that bad. He got used to eating them on the ship, but I always tell him that those instant things are a disgrace to southern cooking and he needs to eat the real thing as often as possible. I'll fatten him up yet! Maybe we'll have breakfast for dinner tonight....

[AlphaFrog]

I just started waitressing at a restaurant just outside of Charlotte, and actually I'm suprised at how many people down here do put sugar on them (even southern-born people). My boss puts A1 on them because she says it makes them taste like steak.

[Sistermadly]

Originally posted by SquirrelGirl
(Especially one from The Flying Biscuit, you from ATL know what I'm talking about)

Best. Biscuits. EVAR!!!!!!

And I like my grits mixed with scrambled eggs with lots of black pepper, a little salt, and a little butter mixed in.

[Jill1228]

packing my bags right now...with an extra bag to bring back some Virginia Ham and other stuff! It is funny I work in Bellingham, WA and I see folx coming down from Canada to order biscuits from the grocery department BY THE CASE! (They don't sell biscuits up there). I introduced Mr. 1228 and his family to grits and he and the child LOVE them. Gotta school them Canadians on good Southern food!

One time Mr. 1228 even made some shrimp grits (he watches too much damn Food Network)

Originally posted by GMUBunny
Jill, you're just going to have to come home to good ol Virginia and let me whip up a big breakfast with slow-cooked grits! We'll throw in some good Surry ham, homemade biscuits and gravy, and maybe some cinnamon apples, too (my grandma makes the best). Man, I'm getting hungry just thinkin about it. Mr. Bunny is from upstate NY and is going through culture shock with the amount of butter we use in our food down here. He does like grits, though so I can't say he's all that bad. He got used to eating them on the ship, but I always tell him that those instant things are a disgrace to southern cooking and he needs to eat the real thing as often as possible. I'll fatten him up yet! Maybe we'll have breakfast for dinner tonight....

[TSteven]

Wow! I rarely check out 'chit chat' much less post. However, I just happened to come across this thread and feel a need to share.

As I type, my home is filled with one heck of a delicious aroma. I am baking a Cheese Grits Breakfast Casserole for our UK Alumni potluck and game watch (GO CATS!) here in San Francisco.

You prepare the basic cheese grits - which we called Charleston Grits growing up (and still do) - and use pepper jack cheese instead of cheddar. Season the mixture with black pepper, cumin, garlic powder, cayenne pepper and hot sauce. Add to the mixture crumbled county sausage (preferably Purnell's Old Folks) along with chopped green peppers, onions, mushrooms and cilantro. All sautéed in the fat rendered by the sausage. Then bake as usual.

Quite tasty.

[phikappapsiman]

Originally posted by TSteven
Wow! I rarely check out 'chit chat' much less post. However, I just happened to come across this thread and feel a need to share.

As I type, my home is filled with one heck of a delicious aroma. I am baking a Cheese Grits Breakfast Casserole for our UK Alumni potluck and game watch (GO CATS!) here in San Francisco.

You prepare the basic cheese grits - which we called Charleston Grits growing up (and still do) - and use pepper jack cheese instead of cheddar. Season the mixture with black pepper, cumin, garlic powder, cayenne pepper and hot sauce. Add to the mixture crumbled county sausage (preferably Purnell's Old Folks) along with chopped green peppers, onions, mushrooms and cilantro. All sautéed in the fat rendered by the sausage. Then bake as usual.

Quite tasty.

O.K., where are you??? That sounds SO GOOD!!! Where were you guys meeting today??? I miss living in Tennessee (well, only the food-San Francisco is QUITE different than Memphis!!!)

[GMUBunny]

Originally posted by Jill1228
packing my bags right now...with an extra bag to bring back some Virginia Ham and other stuff!

Come on down! Mr. Bunny and I just found our new place today, so we'll have a spare room for ya (it's 2 blocks from the beach in Ocean View). I'm makin him a good, artery-clogging breakfast in the morning before church

Of course, I'll be skipping everything but the biscuits and grits (with much less butter than normal) . But, it's for the sake of the little one on the way, so I guess it's a small sacrifice

[winneythepooh7]

I never had them either. These big Southern breakfasts sound like all the calories I eat for my breakfasts all week long .

[TSteven]

Originally posted by phikappapsiman
O.K., where are you??? That sounds SO GOOD!!! Where were you guys meeting today??? I miss living in Tennessee (well, only the food-San Francisco is QUITE different than Memphis!!!)

We (UK Alumni & Wildcat fans) go to Zeke's Sports Bar & Grill for all the Cats' games. Zeke's is on third a few blocks from SBC Park.

[ykimber]

I love my grits with sugar. I sometimes mix in eggs!!! I just love grits!!!!

[bekibug]

Usually, it's just butter and S&P on my grits. But if I'm feeling like going all out, I'll put bacon and eggs in them like my grandma used to do for me when I'd stay with her. Never ever sugar. Ever. If I'm having them for breakfast, it's the instant kind.

-BUT-

I LOVE slow-cooked cheese grits/cheese grits casserole a la The Auburn Cookbook. My great-aunt always makes them for our family's Thanksgiving Eve fish fry. Fresh catfish+hush puppies+cheese grits+coleslaw+syrup (aka sweet tea) is quite possibly the best meal in the history of ever.

I gotta stop this post. I'm getting hungry.

[Kevlar281]

1. Butter & Pepper
2. Hot Sauce

I've never tried A-1 on my grits; I might have to check that out.