BS: Eurika, I have found it!

Subject: Eurika, I have found it!
From: DougR
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:31 PM

I have found a tasty use for grits! I shall await word from the Nobel Committee. I'll be a shoo-in, I think.

Use the basic cornbread recipe I submitted when Rick (the please send me recipes for baking cornbread folk musician)Fielding invited us to submit recipes a few weeks ago.

Just add two teaspoons of grits to the cornmeal, baking soda, salt, dry ingredients, before adding the buttermilk and egg. The grits add a wonderful flavor to the baked cornbread.

I just hope the Nobel folks can find me here on the great American desert.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: mack/misophist
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:37 PM

Grits are made from hominy. Hominy tastes like soap. Grits taste like paper Go figure. Who's that hungry anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:51 PM

Ah, the great Grit debate. I just got back from the south and my daily grits with breakfast. I like the darn things.

Now I did try Collard Greens once when I in Florida, I have no idea how anybody can eat them.

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: YOR
Date: 18 Mar 02 - 11:55 PM

Birds will eat it!

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: DougR
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 12:31 AM

Now hold on, Steve, Collard Greens with ham hocks or salt pork are pretty hard to beat. Especially with a pan of cornbread made with two teaspoons of grits!

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: Banjer
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 05:23 AM

Oh-oh, here we go again!! **BG** There are many folks in the South who love grits, myself included! Not only are they good eatin' but GRITS also stands for Girls Raised In The South. By either definition, they are loved here in the south.

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: SeanM
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 05:34 AM

You're right, Doug. Collard Greens with ham hocks or salt pork ARE pretty hard to beat. I spent a summer with relations down Georgia way, and no matter what I tried - frying pans, baseball bats, tire irons - NOTHING could beat the dang things into submission. Every time I thought I'd whupped 'em, they'd show up on the plate at the next meal.

M

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 08:17 AM

Perhaps I made a mistake in having them on their own. I like Ham Hocks, I even like spinach & Brussel Sprouts, but I bought a can of collard greens at Winn-Dixie, heated them up with some butter and pepper. I have never had anything so bitter in my life.

I meant to pick up a few boxes of grits to bring home with me but I forgot. I also found that the instant ones that were part of the "Continental Breakfast" at our hotel last week were not as good as the ones in the restaraunts. Didn't stop me from having them every morning though.

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: mack/misophist
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 08:23 AM

I grew up in central Texas. There wasn't a single person I knew who liked grits. You people who claim to love the stuff are all in the pay of the international grits cartel. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 08:26 AM

Doug, you might have missed it, but you need to be careful with some of that cornbread stuff! Although Lyrical Lady thought it saved her life, you can judge for yourself.........Check this thread you might have missed!!!

I'm off both cornbread and grits.....at least for awhile!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 08:28 AM

What the %%&&$o"*"!3 are grits anyway ?????

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: MMario
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 08:33 AM

grits are a coarsly ground meal made from hominy - which is corn (maize) processed to remove the hulls and swell the starch kernels.

Hominy used to be made by boiling the corn kernels in a wood ash/lye solution.

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 08:34 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: GUEST,Dave Williams
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 09:15 AM

Grits refers to any grain which has been hulled and coarsely ground. Hominy grits, which is a favorite dish in the South, is made from corn (maize), the hulling in this case having been accomplished by soaking in lye (sodium hydroxide).

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 09:23 AM

Dave Williams,

That's a comforting thought. I wish I'd known that before my weeklong Gritfest.

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: greg stephens
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 09:33 AM

They're very nice with plenty of Marmite

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: kendall
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 09:43 AM

If you grind them fine enough, mix with water, they make great wallpaper paste.

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: Peg
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 10:37 AM

never eat canned greens! (or canned vegetables of any kind if you can avoid it). Fresh greens are ar less bitter, and they still have all the nutrients that rae lost in processing (which is after all why we eat greens in the first place).

Anyone out there fond of eating spring nettles? I am looking forward to going to gather some in a week or two (after the first snow we've had all winter melts). I make a wonderful cream of nettles soup!

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: Spartacus
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 10:47 AM

Eurika, I've misspelled "Eureka"...

the recipe sounds good, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Eurika, I have found it!
From: DougR
Date: 19 Mar 02 - 06:45 PM

Spaw, indeed I did over look that thread you referred me to. I didn't know what that big word meant, and feared that it might be something catching.

However, I fear I cannot do without my cornbread. I'll just have to chance it. Perhaps the addition of grits to the cornmeal will protect me. Anyway, I don't mess up my cornbread with chilis or cheese or anything like that anyway. Might as well put beans in chili, and sugar in cornbread if you're going to avoid it entirely.

I'm glad you are okay though. Khandu mentioned that you might well have changed the whole face of Ohio had you not got to the hospital in time (not a direct quote but close). It appears that you might well have blown Ohio off the map. Stay well and eat cornbread for your health!

DougR