An Aggie's life

[kitkatz]

Grits with butter and sugar?

[kimcanada]

GUTTA ASK.....  WHAT THE HECK IS A GRIT??

[pelagia]

Ground corn with the nutritious parts removed.  Cooked a little thinner than polenta (cornmeal dish) the Italians make.  Have you ever had Cream of Wheat?  Something like that.

Most southerners I know like grits with butter and salt at breakfast alongside eggs and bacon.  My father eats his grits with butter and sugar like Kitkatz.  But really, I hope Twirl will weigh in on this...

[twirl]

grits with sugar - no way
grits are good with a little cheese - sometimes
but mainly with margarine and pepper
I am going to send Kimmie a box of grits
and a few recipes
we will make Kimmie into a FGRIT   friend of girls rasied in the South

[kitkatz]

Thicken the grits up, then take them and fry them in pieces in butter. Put maple syrup on them., Yummy!

[twirl]

Thicken the grits up, then take them and fry them in pieces in butter. Put maple syrup on them., Yummy!

no,no, no
put cheese in them and add jalapenos     nacho grits

I have seen recipes with grits and shrimp but have yet to try it

[aharris2]

Thicken the grits up, then take them and fry them in pieces in butter. Put maple syrup on them., Yummy!

We ignore the fact that they are grits, add a little half and half and sweetner, then cover them with honey or syrup... they're edible like that.

[kimcanada]

                                                          YAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  i AM  FGRIT!!!!!!







EDITED:Fixed smiley tag error-kitkatz,moderator

[twirl]

check your mail in a few days and you will know how a FGRIT sounds
mailed it Friday

some people put red eye gravy on their grits

[kimcanada]

                                                  WHAT THE H*** IS RED EYE GRAVY 

[Ken Shelmerdine]

What's an Aggie??

[kimcanada]

Pretty sure its a football team Ken, but not 100%

[paul.karen]

LOL  Yes Kim & ken it is a football team.

As for the red eye gravy?

We dont have grits up here in jersey.
We have tripe.  Bleckk   Pass me the grits

[twirl]

Aggie's are students from Texas A & M University
very hard to get in to that college
he is on the football team
we were Texas UT fans until Allen with to A&M

is tripe parts of a goat's tummy
I will send you some grits
do not listen to the silly members who put sweet things in grits
use butter, salt, pepper or cheese or margarine, and jalapenos
I do not use the salt

[okarol]

Beef tripe is usually made from only the first three chambers of a cow's stomach: the rumen (blanket/flat/smooth tripe), the reticulum (honeycomb and pocket tripe), and the omasum (book/bible/leaf tripe). Abomasum (reed) tripe is seen much less frequently, owing to its glandular tissue content. Tripe is also produced from sheep, goats, pigs, and deer. 

[monrein]

Tripe is cow (or bull) stomach.  Must be washed carefully before cooking.  In Jamaica they boil it until tender then coat it in bread crumbs and fry it.  I eat it in Chinese Dim Sum restaurants here.  They stew it down with green onions and bits of hot pepper and it is really tender and delicious.  Most importantly, it's not deep fried so the calorie count is good too.  I love it and chicken feet too.  The chicken feet are stewed in a red barbeque type sauce.

I like the taste of ALL foods (an omnivore I call myself) so you might not want to go by what I say, but I miss my regular Dim Sum feasts which I now avoid because of salt.  

[aharris2]

Beef tripe is usually made from only the first three chambers of a cow's stomach: the rumen (blanket/flat/smooth tripe), the reticulum (honeycomb and pocket tripe), and the omasum (book/bible/leaf tripe). Abomasum (reed) tripe is seen much less frequently, owing to its glandular tissue content. Tripe is also produced from sheep, goats, pigs, and deer. 

NOOO!!! This is way, way, way too much info! 

Thank, OK 

[twirl]

grits and just grits
no stomach tissue involved

[pelagia]

I think I've already written about my distaste for tripe elsewhere in the pages if IHD 

Perhaps I will someday come across some that is prepared as Monrein has described and I will try again.  For now though, I put it in the same category as insect larvae. 

Gimme grits with cheese any day! 

[monrein]

Insect larvae???  Hmm, and how would we be preparing those?  Deep fried for crunch perhaps?  How much phosphorus I wonder?   

[Wallyz]

Aggie applies to anyone who attands a college that started as an A&M college, (Agriculture and Mining)  Many Western States started two state land grant colleges, an arts and sciences school and an A&M school.  The A&M schools were seen as more rural and the students were classified as lower social status and therefore "Dumb"

Red eye gravy is pan drippings, coffee,and sugar.  It's often served with Ham. I don't like it.  I prefer a good country sausage gravy.  with Bicuits.

[pelagia]

Insect larvae???  Hmm, and how would we be preparing those?  Deep fried for crunch perhaps?  How much phosphorus I wonder?   

I've only had them steamed.  I think they would be better deep fried. 

[twirl]

Pelagia
darn, that cross stitch should have been a bug and not a hooded fish
steamed did you know what you were eating

[pelagia]

Actually after I thought about it today, I decided they were roasted.  I thought I told the bug (insect larvae, actually) eating story before.  I ate them in Korea as a sign of friendship and respect of my Korean friend.  He grew up right after the Korean War and was very, very poor, but today is a college professor.  They ate bugs when he was growing up because they often had nothing else.  Now it is considered a very special food.  They were mushy and tasted like hay.  I don't think I'll ever eat them again.

I did not  , but I thought about it.

[twirl]

I don't think you will get any request for the recipe
would be interesting to have it on what I ate for supper
did you only have to respect him by eating one
or did you have more respect for him
what followed the bug
or was that the main course