Sometimes

[shirtlifterbear]

A big bowl of grits just makes it better.

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[entropic-system.livejournal.com]

Few things are better than grits with butter, salt, and pepper.

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

The bowl is soothing the savage beast in me, even as we speak, er, type.

oh, HELL yes.

[eskanto]

And scrambled eggs, too.

None of that sugar and raisins business.

[electriclime.livejournal.com]

So does a pint of Guinness

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that SCOTCH is called for.

Mental note to self:

Elective courses?

JUST SAY NO.

[tzaddi-93.livejournal.com]

Mmmm.....now I want some cheese grits. I think that's what I'll have for dinner.

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

Yummmmmm!

Velveeta?

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Mel, kiss my grits!

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

Polly Holiday for the win!

FUCK I used to love that show!

[timbearuk.livejournal.com]

Grits? Shudder. Might as well be wallpaper paste ...

Now if you'd said 'bacon', it'd be a different story! :-)

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

One of the things about growing up near Miami is that I developed a taste for two entirely unrelated cuisines: Cuban and Southern.

Sometimes, you just NEED grits.

[tzaddi-93.livejournal.com]

OK. Unless you generally have serious food texture issues, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you haven't had grits that were prepared correctly.

[zurcherart.livejournal.com]

That it does my friend, that it does.

I do my best to make do with Polenta ...

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

Polenta: Italians trying desperately to do it right, and missing it by *that much*

*giggle*

[dan4behr.livejournal.com]

Done Shrimp 'n Grits yet?

ZOMG!!!!
http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/4656

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

Grew up on 'em!

When in doubt, put it in!

[jhitchin.livejournal.com]

Neither Greg nor I grew up with grits, so consequently, neither he nor I like them. I however, did grow up with Malt O' Meal and still like it, though a lot of folks I know think it's Satan spawn. :-)

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

Malt O' Meal is like Cream of Wheat for WASPs!

[delmarmar.livejournal.com]

I lurve me some grits. Plain. Buttered. Butter, salt and lightly peppered. Maple syruped. Cheesed. Cooked in broth. Just about any anyway except not gravied. I dunna like gravy.

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm... now I'm hungry again!

[putzmeisterbear.livejournal.com]

I have a confession.

I've never had grits. It's not that I don't want to try them, I've never had the chance really.

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

They are sublime when done properly, ghastly when done by a Yankee.

[phreddd.livejournal.com]

Somebody needed comfort (I go the butter/hot sauce route at times, myself.)

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

Bingo!

Just needed them, right!

[omero-hassan.livejournal.com]

I've never had a single grit, let alone a bowl of them.

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

This is a sad, sad thing to hear.

Someday, you'll grit, and you'll love it!

G.R.I.T.S

[major7.livejournal.com]

Guy
Raised
In
The
South

~ nothin's better than a big ole helpin'.

(For creamier grits, half water, half milk)

Re: G.R.I.T.S

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

My Granny used melt butter into the water before adding the grits. YUM!

[emmerick.livejournal.com]

MMMMMM, CHUNKY SLIMEY SNOT STEW!

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

MMMMM, MMMMM, That's good!

[wescobear.livejournal.com]

Screw the grits; just mix me up a shaker full of cocktails. That's what I need after working fifteen hours on the Casino Project from Hell.

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of you in Vegas, especially when I went into the casinos and saw all the lighting tricks and frills!

It was the Heck of Insufficient Lighting!

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

I'm totally in agreement here, GOOD grits done well are yummy (southern by proxy as both parents are southern, all three older sisters barely southern (all born in Dover DE in the late 50's) and me, a Puget sound born and bred but have had the good stuff, the instant etc are indeed ghastly.

A little butter, a pinch of salt and of course, pepper is mighty delish I will concur.

I hope you enjoyed them. Not had then in a coon's age myself.

And do it as a side with ham cooked in a skillet with something green like overcooked green beans with salt pork or spinach boiled with vinegar and that's a southern dish if I'm not mistaken.

[tzaddi-93.livejournal.com]

Not spinach, which is a tender green. The side dish you are thinking of is one of the tougher greens like mustard, collard or turnip greens. You boil them with some salt pork or bacon in the pan until they are tender. Their flavor is richer and more earthy than spinach.

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

Let them eat cake!