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Subject: [Leica] (crazy messed-up subject; now oatmeal)
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:23:33 -0600
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Oatmeal is OK when you are going to stay inside and nurse a cold, because it
is a nice stand-alone dish.  It needs a pat of butter and some brown sugar
on top to make it have a little taste, and I like that.  The long cooking
ones are where it's at, I agree.

BUT, if you want a substantial breakfast, you need grits instead.   It can
either be hominy grits or polenta, which is plain corn meal, but they need
to be cooked thoroughly and usually served with yard eggs and some kind of
nice breakfast meat.

Down here in Louisiana that's probably a sausage, and there are lots of
smoked meats available with great taste.

Getting back to the Grits, here's a recipe that works pretty good.  if you
can't find grits, course ground corn meal (polenta)  will work just fine.

2 tablespoons  butter
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups water
1/2 cup stone- or water-ground whole-grain grits (or polenta)
1 to 2 cups milk, cream, half-and-half, water, or stock

Bring salted water to a boil. Stir in the grits,  add butter , return to a
boil, and reduce heat.

Cook grits at a low boil for 10 minutes or so, until they are very thick and
have absorbed most of the water, stirring often to prevent them from
sticking.

Add a little of the  milk or cream to the pot and turn the heat real low,
allowing the grits to simmer, and keep on adding until the consistency is
slightly soupy, but won't run off the spoon.

Real good with eggs over easy, and biscuits too.  but some people think
that's too much starch.

Now, if you want to, you can drop some grated cheese in there, and call it
cheesy grits, but that's a whole different thing.


Regards,

Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/
Natchitoches, Louisiana
(+31.754164,-093.099080)

USA


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