Grits and Sausage - Great start to the day

Bird · Jun 29, 2012

Like Jim (jinman) we've never fixed grits at home. I like them if they're flavored properly. And I'm quite fond of both white and yellow hominy, but rarely eat any hominy for one simple reason; my wife.:laughing: Corn, canned or on the cob, is my wife's favorite vegetable or side dish, but she will not eat hominy or grits.

Makes no sense to me, but that's just the way it is.:laughing:

mjarrels · Jun 29, 2012

I'll take SOS... Best ever!

mark

phiferpharm · Jun 29, 2012

mjarrels said:
I'll take SOS... Best ever!

mark

Ahh, good suggestion. But, which version - Made with Ground meat or Dried beef. :licking: RobertBrown Gonna grab some and try it!

BigBoyinMS · Jun 29, 2012

I love grits and Grits.

grits with a little butter, Tony's (Tony Chacherre seasoning) and then stir in some chedder while they are still hot.
Grits- Girls Raised In The South :thumbsup:

Bird · Jun 29, 2012

phiferpharm said:
Ahh, good suggestion. But, which version - Made with Ground meat or Dried beef. :licking: RobertBrown Gonna grab some and try it!

Ground meat? Yep, when I was a kid, we made it at home with ground meat; jackrabbit meat to be exact.:laughing: We cooked them in the pressure cooker, then stripped the meat off the bones and ran it through the old hand cranked meat grinder.

Pete Judd · Jun 29, 2012

I have tried to learn how to eat grits, but prefer hash browns. Traveling the South for over 30 years in the job, had them almost every way they could be served. Just can't teach this old dog "now" how to like them.

phiferpharm · Jun 30, 2012

Its interesting to look up the history of Hominy. Turns out from what I can see that Hominy is really based on an Indian word for the process used to make it. The Native Americans had to show the early settlers how to prep corn.

I remember my family used to have Hominy when I was a kid and we lived up north in Pa. When I was just starting school, we moved to Florida and you were served grits if you went out to breakfast. My wife is a third generation Floridian, who's family was from Georgia prior to that. She has got me into all sorts of fun stuff like Okra, Black eye peas, Fried mush, etc. Still can't manage the Collard greens though..

Bird · Jun 30, 2012

Doug, I've only read about the fried mush; never even seen any as far as I know. Of course I've been eating okra and blackeyed peas all my life. As for the greens, I like all of them. I only planted turnips for greens, but a neighbor always planted collards. I even like spinach, but figured if I had enough turnip greens, I didn't really need the others. But I also grew up eating Poke Salad (or Salat, as you prefer) and don't see much of that anymore.

RobertBrown · Jun 30, 2012

As a young one I remember I loved to have scrapple for breakfast. Scrapple and eggs was about as good as it gets as far as I was concerned, fry it until it got real crispy :licking:.
Not sure what its made from but I'm pretty sure it was what ever is left after the pig was butchered, meat cut and the sausage and bacon was packed. If it wound up on the floor it went into the scrapple :laughing:

brin · Jun 30, 2012

There is a country store close to us that has a breakfast special....They have a huge Styrofoam Cup...it is big...they put in stone ground grits, butter, cheese, crumbled up sausage and bacon , sausage gravy and your choice of how you want your two eggs added to the mix...You get a nice biscuit with it too... Most folks I see....get it and just stir it up and chow down....I have not bought one yet...it is too much for me to eat at one time...but it sure looks good..