Re: [CH] Grits!

Beth (beth@bayoutraders.com)
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:51:17 -0600 

Thank you Gene!

I guess I have had a sheltered life or just took for granted that grits
were a mainstay in fine cuisine!  I was dis-belieiving when grits were
not offered at a breakfast buffet I visited this weekend HERE IN TEXAS!

Yes, you have to FLOAT grits (and rice) in gravy and/or butter.  I have
gone so far as to get a side order of chile gravy to go from my favorite
Mexican food restuarant to float my grits for breakfast.

I will be trying these grit recipes, passing on the Oatmeal & Okra, but
dining on rice tonight.........Beth



"F. Eugene (Gene) Dunnam" wrote:Fellow members of the Almost Noble Order
of the Torrified Tongue:

>
> OK, allyew DY's who've bad mouthed our Native American-Southern dish:
>
> I have spent the weekend meditating on your problem, trying to
> develop a little pity for your plight & a modicum of tolerance for
> your misguided tastes. The thought has occurred to me that perhaps
> you are of the same alien ilk that puts cream & sugar on rice
> [yecchhh!] and sugar on tomatoes [yarg!]. If you tried to eat grits
> with cream & sugar you got your just dessert, but your distaste
> becomes understandable: you were paying the price that Mother Nature
> nearly always exacts when sacrilege is committed.  All right-thinking
> Southerners *know* from birth that rice & grits are to be eaten with
> gravy [preferably red-eye], or butter in the catastrophic event that
> no gravy is available.
>
> But anyway: Take the 10 worst comments made about grits on these
> pages, and multiply by 10.
>
> Now you know how *I* personally regard *your* nasty, gloppy, gooey,
> sticky, tasteless, wallpaperpaste-cum-Plaster-of-Paris mess that you
> call oatmeal.
>
> To prevent this tirade from being completely OT here's my time tested
> C-H recipe for a smallish batch [serves 2, generously] of ChileGritz.
> Put 1 1/2 C. water in a pot with 5 Tbs quick grits, a pinch garlic
> salt, 1 Tb butter and 1 or 2 ripe Habaneros [chopped]. Bring to the
> boil, stir well, reduce heat to simmer, cover, & cook for 10 minutes.
> Add grated cheese if you like.  Yum!
>
> Gene
>
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