My Thanksgiving pet peeve....
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Jig Chippewa
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12-06-2009 07:38
From: Ceka Cianci where i live hominy is turned into grits..
i think it could also be malt-o-meal too but i'm not sure..
he said..i just don't understand the grits..he said i can add jelly or sausage or butter or anything you can think of and it doesn't do a dam thing to change a grit into something hehehe
this was the explanation i had gotten from him when i asked him if he would like some grits with that..lol If you wanna really try grits properly, I suggest a favourite of mine when I'm in Bahamas, It's a bowl of grits as a side dish to Bahamian spicy boil fish and johnnie cake. Although it can be a toss up with peas n'rice. But not on Sunday morning. It's gotta be grits as teh side dish, and fresh made. Not "pot cake". Jiggy.
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Ceka Cianci
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12-06-2009 07:55
i just make them for my BF..i don't eat them..if it wasn't for him there wouldn't be grits in my house at all lol Although they do go well with the breakfast scrambler at Krystals  |
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Jig Chippewa
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12-06-2009 08:05
From: Ceka Cianci i just make them for my BF..i don't eat them..if it wasn't for him there wouldn't be grits in my house at all lol Although they do go well with the breakfast scrambler at Krystals I eat them with a splodge of butter (and when I was drinking, I used to have a Tequila chaser) and then go off in early early morning for a sail in my Hobie Cat. Cold air, cool water from the night, white beach, emptiness. Lovely. Ahh grits!
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Esquievel Easterwood
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12-06-2009 09:16
From: Ceka Cianci he said..i just don't understand the grits..he said i can add jelly or sausage or butter or anything you can think of and it doesn't do a dam thing to change a grit into something i just go out of my way for..he says..butter and grits just taste like i am having butter and grits not buttered grits or jelly and grits not jellyed grits or sausage and grits not grits that taste like sausage..
so i just don't like the damn things cause they won't soak up and add to the meal..they just sit there all independant and adding this ball of weight to my gut..
i can actually feel them in my gut teaming back up at the bottom feeling like i ate a cannon ball or something.. Tell him to try poi; he'll be grateful to go back to grits. |
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Argent Stonecutter
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12-06-2009 13:32
Poi is OK with kalua pig.
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Melita Magic
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12-06-2009 13:34
I think one has to be raised on grits to love them, although probably not all who are, do. I tried them as an adult, and found them something like wallpaper paste. But then I'm not big on hot cereals. Or things that need lots of add-ons to taste good. I suppose pancakes would taste boring to other cultures, though, too.
Have a relative raised in the U.S. South who loves boiled peanuts, (boiled and eaten with shells on) and grits. Fave meal: corn bread and butter beans. Amazing how happy they were when I found ways to get those foods to them!
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Naz Fride
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12-06-2009 14:16
I don't like hominy (or, as my ex-boss from VA used to call it, "harmony",) but I love grits. And yes, I am a Southern Gal. Gots ta have butter and black pepper on them.
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Melita Magic
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12-06-2009 14:18
I thought hominy and grits were the same?
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Ceka Cianci
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12-06-2009 14:22
From: Melita Magic I thought hominy and grits were the same?
:/ grits are made from hominy..it's like ground up hominy. |
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Melita Magic
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12-06-2009 15:01
I thought so...that's what had me confused.
So when they call it hominy it is more of a whole grain still? And grits are when it's smooth?
Seems vice versa somehow.
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Ceka Cianci
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12-06-2009 15:51
From: Melita Magic I thought so...that's what had me confused.
So when they call it hominy it is more of a whole grain still? And grits are when it's smooth?
Seems vice versa somehow. actually hominy is dried corn that has been treated to remove the outer shell of the kernel so you get the softer inside of the kernel.. grit i guess may come from maybe being the size of sand grits..i don't know that part really lol |
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Esquievel Easterwood
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12-06-2009 17:29
From: Ceka Cianci actually hominy is dried corn that has been treated to remove the outer shell of the kernel so you get the softer inside of the kernel..
grit i guess may come from maybe being the size of sand grits..i don't know that part really lol They treat the corn with lye. I know, it doesn't bear thinking about. *L* And grits are ground dried hominy. The hominy I use comes in cans, in water, and is about the consistency of a canned chick-pea before cooking. after cooking it's got the texture of a fully-cooked boiled potato. It really tastes good--nothing like corn, and a whole heckuva lot better than poi, no matter how many pigs are involved. (Though I will concede that just about anything would taste better on a quiet Hawaiian beach, at sunset, with a fire glowing nearby and a live band performing "Kuu Lei, Kuu Ipo".) |
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Argent Stonecutter
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12-06-2009 17:50
Best kalua pig in Hawaii, when I was there 30 years ago, was a little hole in the wall in one of the bedroom neighborhoods back behind Diamond Head. Never had anything at a luau to match it.
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Esquievel Easterwood
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12-06-2009 18:35
I went to a big commercial luau on my first trip out there. The pork was really good--everything else was mediocre. Second trip I was on the Big Island most of the time and I went for the fish--mahi mahi and ono. That stuff was great. I need to go back there again.
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12-06-2009 21:20
there isn't enough anything to make poi taste good (damn now I miss hawaii though, even if I still have reef rash scars on my back) pua'a kalua, Lomi lomi, grilled mahi mahi, banana bread, and haupia.... I lived in Kaimuki (other side of diamon head from Waikiki) in the 80's back when the Kailua drive in theatre was still standing. the national obsession with spam was kinda weird though (I get it, it's cheap and shipping drive prices up)
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Hank Ramos
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12-06-2009 21:23
Thanksgiving is sooooo last month!  |
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12-06-2009 21:47
From: Hank Ramos Thanksgiving is sooooo last month! pay attention, we're on to luau's, and you can have those anytime =)
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Esquievel Easterwood
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12-06-2009 22:09
Let's have a Christmas luau!
New Year's Eve, 1990, I was standing on the balcony of my hotel room in Honolulu, watching fireworks. This year I'll be shivering in upstate NY, though among friends.
Let's have some slack-key guitar on the beach, some pork roasted to butter consistency, some midnight skinny-dipping in the surf that floats you in from chest-deep. It's no longer Thanksgiving, but I still say mahalo for Hswaii.
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