How do you like your grits?

[Guest]

I like mine with a bit butter and pepper, sometimes cheese. It's my comfort food. That and vegetable soup with homemade noodles.

What's your comfort food (and by comfort food, I mean the kind you have to make)?

 

[cloudy]

I like mine with a bit butter and pepper, sometimes cheese. It's my comfort food. That and vegetable soup with homemade noodles.

What's your comfort food (and by comfort food, I mean the kind you have to make)?

grits with butter and salt, maybe some cheese, or redeye gravy.

Comfort food is meatloaf, mashed taters and peas, or chicken and dumplings, or my mama's fried chicken, fried okra, and butterbeans.

Damn, I'm southern.

 

[Guest]

grits with butter and salt, maybe some cheese, or redeye gravy.

Comfort food is meatloaf, mashed taters and peas, or chicken and dumplings, or my mama's fried chicken, fried okra, and butterbeans.

Damn, I'm southern.

You are southern.

Biscuits and gravy too. I forgot that.

 

[cloudy]

You are southern.

Biscuits and gravy too. I forgot that.

with a nice slice of tomato.

Fried green tomatos, country steak and gravy, and biscuits.

 

[sereneone4u]

grits with butter and salt, or cheese.

My husband puts sugar in his grits...blasphemy!


I would say fried chicken, coleslaw, baked beans, bisquit...meatloaf and mashed potatoes...beef stew...chicken and dumplings...bbq ribs with mac and cheese...

I need to cook, lol. All I have been eating is cereal, sandwiches and soup.

 

[CharleyH]

As I have always said, my comfort food is King Crab ... reminds me of family and Christmas Eve.

Oh, someone said GRAVY!!!! Okay, right about now I might die for any potato version with gravy. The Portuguese don't seem to GET the concept of gravy.

 

[Guest]

I've only had grits once - real grits, I mean - when was in Atlanta at a conference.

I have to say I prefer hash browns or mashed potatoes if I had to choose.

My favorite comfort food? Sunday dinner stuff - pot roast and mashed potatoes, that sort. My favorite meal is a good Caesar salad, steak and baked potato (none of which I can eat because of my teeth situation, damn it).

Of course I fell instantly in love with Greek food in Chicago, thank you Zoot.

And serious comfort food? Ice cream with hot fudge. That can make even the most awful things so very much better.

 

[Guest]

My husband puts sugar in his grits...blasphemy!

My missus did that too the first time she tried grits, but she thought it was farina (cream of wheat).
Yankees.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

mmm, grits with butter, salt and good cheddar.

comfort foods: homemade mac and cheese, green beans and new potatoes, fried catfish, bread pudding, peach cobbler...my mom's biscuits and gravy.

I'm starving now, thanks!

 

[English Lady]

A cheesy pasta concoction I make with whatever veg I have about flung in (peas, onion and peppers mostly)

Or hotpot (mince beef, chunks of patato, carrot and onion in a gravy sauce) with dumplings.

Or mashed potato and well, anything *L*

or

Homemade cake of some form -I take almost as much comfort from baking it as do from eating it

 

[Chantilyvamp]

*closes her eyes and just thinks about all the southern food*

Ok I am now slobbering like mad dog and in need of a trip home to get some food...cloudy you keep this up and I'm coming to live with you

And strangely I also like my grits for breakfast with butter and sugar and if I am really feeling gross put a dollop of strawberry jam in them

Here my comfort foods are things that I make like biscuits and gravy, pancakes, fried okra (after I finally found okra here) and I grow my own tomatoes so I can have fried green tomatoes. Now if I could just master doing friend pickles as well and find a catfish I'd be in hog heaven

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Girts, any ole way - butter, salt and pepper or milk and sugar

Comfort food: Liver and caramelized onions with noodles and gravy and brussel sprouts. Mmmmm....

 

[alltherage]

I like mine with a bit butter and pepper, sometimes cheese. It's my comfort food. That and vegetable soup with homemade noodles.

What's your comfort food (and by comfort food, I mean the kind you have to make)?

I like mine at least one thousand miles away from me. That goes for hominy as well.

 

[CharleyH]

I could easily look it up, I know. But what are grits from those who can cook them?

 

[cloudy]

I could easily look it up, I know. But what are grits from those who can cook them?

coarsely ground dried hominy corn, then boiled into a sort of porridge. Yummy.

 

[CharleyH]

coarsely ground dried hominy corn, then boiled into a sort of porridge. Yummy.

Hominy corn? Boiled in oats? (like I said, I can look it up) but I prefer to know the LIT recipes for Grits!

 

[cloudy]

Hominy corn? Boiled in oats? (like I said, I can look it up) but I prefer to know the LIT recipes for Grits!

No oats.

You don't "make" grits, per se. You buy them already ground (they come in a box, much like oats), and just have to boil them. There's even "quick grits" and "instant grits" for impatient people. The quick grits I can deal with, but the instant are bleh.

 

[CharleyH]

No oats.

You don't "make" grits, per se. You buy them already ground (they come in a box, much like oats), and just have to boil them. There's even "quick grits" and "instant grits" for impatient people. The quick grits I can deal with, but the instant are bleh.

Well that helps! (remember, I am in Europe right now, and even if I wasn't I was in Canada previously and do not RECALL any instant GRITS on my grocery shelf. So you are saying (from what I get) Grits are fake potatoes?

 

[cloudy]

Well that helps! (remember, I am in Europe right now, and even if I wasn't I was in Canada previously and do not RECALL any instant GRITS on my grocery shelf. So you are saying (from what I get) Grits are fake potatoes?

Corn, baby, corn. They most resemble hmmm.....maybe very coarse cream of wheat.

This is what they look like uncooked:

http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/hominygrits2.jpg

 

[CharleyH]

Corn, baby, corn. They most resemble hmmm.....maybe very coarse cream of wheat.

This is what they look like uncooked:

http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/hominygrits2.jpg

Okay, I think I am just going to look it up now.

 

[Dar~]

I love grits with real butter and a bit of seasoned salt.
(my kids like them with cinnamon sugar)


Comfort food for me is anything my mom made that I only make occasionally.
-Stroganoff
-Cabbage burgers ( boiled cabbage and browned hamburger and onions folded into homemade bread dough and baked pocket style)
-Homemade peach cobbler with home canned peaches and homemade biscuit mix.
-my mom's cinnamon rolls, which I have yet to reproduce.

 

[buxxxom]

Mmmmm, grits. Butter, salt and pepper. Not the instant kind.

In this part of the south, we eat rice for breakfast, too. Sticky, creamy rice, resembling paste. Also with butter, salt, and pepper. Carbs, salt, and fat. What's not to love?

Favorite southern comfort meal: my homemade chicken and dumplings (yes, I make my own dumplings, roll them out and everything), fried okra, butter peas, fresh corn cut from the cob, sliced tomatoes, cornbread or biscuits, iced tea (always sweetened, though I prefer mine without sugar), and peach cobbler. Reminds me of my grandmother.

I need to do some serious cooking!

 

[feeeriek]

the closest thing to grits that would make sense would be polenta... same basic ingredient different cooking method

 

[cloudy]

southern treat: fresh boiled peanuts (the canned ones are okay, but don't come anywhere near the ones that are so fresh and hot that you burn your fingers on them).

 

[_Lynn_]

My missus did that too the first time she tried grits, but she thought it was farina (cream of wheat).
Yankees.

**slowly raising My hand as one of those guilty "Sugar in grits Yankees" **