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Main Boards => Recipes/Grilling/ Barbecuing/Smokers => Topic started by: Ron LaClair on June 26, 2012, 09:54:00 AM
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I don't think I've ever met a bowhunter that didn't like to eat. One of the reasons we hunt is to supply meat for our family. One of my favorite breakfast meals is venison steak and eggs, with maybe just a little raw fried taters on the side.
Around this time of year when the freezer is getting low we may have to have some meatless meals to save on our meat supply and make it last. One of those for me is grits and eggs. Now I know that a lot of folks especially folk from the north turn up their nose at grits. Southerners are raised on grits so it's a staple for them.
The reason some don't like them may be because of how they fix em. First off don't use instance grits, the old fashion grits that you cook for 15 to 20 minutes is best. I don't like my grits to run all over my plate, they need to be thick enough to stand like mashed taters. Grits will hold their heat a long time so I usually put them on my plate first, add a slab of butter and sprinkle heavily with grated sharp cheddar cheese on top.
As the cheese is melting, plop 2 or 3 eggs in a pan (I prefer 3) flip em over easy and slide em on top of your grits. Now for the important part, before I put on the eggs I sprinkle the grits liberally with hot sauce, Louisianan hot sauce or whatever brand you prefer. I picked up some hot sauce at the Compton rendezvous from some fellows from Tennessee representing a company called "Rock Creek Farms" Their "Super Hot Whiskey Sauce" should come with a warning label and be used sparingly.
This is a stick to your ribs meal and you'll more and likely skip lunch and not be hungry until suppertime. With this recipe I gar-own-tee you'll never say grits are bland and tasteless again.
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Grits, Ron, Grits. It is great to see a Northener who appreciates them. Also, they are not just for breakfast as in shrimp and grits.
Someday us Southern guys need to put together a Trad Gang grits recipe book so we can enlighten the rest of the bow hunting world.
Remember the long running grits thread from a year or so ago? It was fun.
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mmmmmmmmmmmm.....I'm hungry again!
:bigsmyl: :thumbsup:
F-Manny
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Looks good to me!!
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Ron, you just made me darn HUNGRY!
But, you forgot to add piping hot Community Coffee (of which I'm having a cup of right now)!
sa ce bon!
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Ron, that's a breakfast any southerner could be proud of. Add a couple of biscuits and gravy and you're set!!!
BOB
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Ron,
You hit the nail on the head. Grits with cheese -- man, that's good.
As a yankee who has been transplanted to the south, I have learned about grits. Try very finely grated cheddar mixed into the grits so it all melts -- wow!
My vote for hot sauce goes to Texas Pete, made in Winston-Salem, NC -- regardless of the Texas name. Just a hint of sweet in with the hot.
I love breakfast, any time of day. Breakfast is the "Hunter's Meal"
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Mmmmmmm.... Gree-uts!!!
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oh man, venison and eggs with hot sauce, I lost my concentration there.
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What are grits?????---I am not trying to be funny--but being from Canada---I do not have a clue what you are talking about. Alonzo the elf.
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That sauce is some HOT stuff, I had some on my home made venison hash with eggs on top this morning.(taters, venison, onions and red/green peppers)
like dippidy doo, a little dad will do ya.
PS, That grit thread is still one of the funniest threads yet. somebody should dig it up.
CTT
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Mmmmm...Mmmm That's what I'm talking about. Throw a little country bacon or sausage in there with some cathead biscuits and Hawwww, that's some fine eatin.
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Sure described a perfect breakfast! Like to eat my grits last smothered in redeye gravy.., as in dessert!
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I like the grits too but that hot sauce will fire you up all day. However since I take a nexium every day, I can usually handle stuff that is hot and spicy.
I like mine with eggs, sausage, biscuits and gravy. Growing up on a farm in Tennessee, we occasionally put molasses or karo syrup on them with butter and ate them as a cereal. I still like them that way now.
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A meatless southern breakfast is about as real as the toothfairy.
If I have to crawl underneath the house, drag that possum out and stomp him to death with my bare feet, I'm having some sort of grilled or fried meat with my eggs.
I'll run out of eggs before I run out of breakfast meat. And if I run out of eggs, then I'm going out back and grabbing an unproductive hen for breakfast. I find if one hen has to take one for the team, it motivates the rest of the flock!
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Wow Ron, you eat good!
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Originally posted by the elf:
What are grits?????---I am not trying to be funny--but being from Canada---I do not have a clue what you are talking about. Alonzo the elf.
Someone needs to enlighten this northern gentleman. I ain't technical enough :knothead:
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V-GORILLA, that's funny .... but true!
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You can cover almost anything in cheese and hot sauce and make it taste good. :rolleyes:
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Had my two eggs, over medium, with bacon, grits, and pan toasted wheat bread this morning. I like my thickly cooked grits with a heavy covering of black pepper and a pat of butter to freshen the taste. No salt. Eggs covered in black pepper and Texas Pete Hot Sauce from local Winston-Salem, NC.
I'm heading out to Caifornia in a few weeks. Gonna look up the Pico Pica Hot Sauce. I had some out there in April and love that stuff. Can't find it here locally.
Good stuff Ron. Hopefully I'll have some wild bacon to go the the above some day.
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From scratch pan cakes and fried hot dogs this morning. Keeps me happy!
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Sounds awesome. .
but after eating a breakfast like that, make CERTAIN you also pack some TP because I gar-own-tee you will be needing it an hour down the trail.
ChuckC
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Wheres Mudd! :laughing:
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Me loves me some grits! The wife on the other hand.....
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I love grits. A slab of country ham and some biscuits and gravy go good with those eggs and grits. And, to make good gravy, you gotta have sausage. So there you go.
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Alonzo, grits are made from corn. It's like ground up corn, but not fine enough to be corn meal which you need to make corn bread. Some say mana was really grits
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Ron,
We MUST have the hot sauce for our eggs!! Man that looks yummy. :notworthy:
Here is my favorite:
Two over easy with a side of backstrap cooked with a couple strips of bacon, home fries, black coffee. Douse everything in hot sauce and A-1 sauce. BURPP!!!!!
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What I gotta have is 3 eggs scrambles with sharp cheddar cheese and Jalepeno, Grilled Polish Keilbasa with horseradish and fried taters and onion. My basic pre hunt meal.
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I think am a ready to eat.
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O.K. this is for the elf. Grits are a staple of Southern culture and cuisine. They are made from ground corn and have a consistency somewhat similar to cream of wheat or porridge. Most commonly, they are boiled. All by themselves they can be rather bland, but they can be the basis of some really good dishes. Mostly, they take a lot of flavor from the ingredients cooked with them. Often, they are eaten with just salt, pepper, and butter.
Then you can move up a notch. You have seen refernce to grits with cheese. Add some garic to your cheese grits, and you are beginning to get somewhere. Jalopena peppers fit in nicely as well.I have added salsa to them.
I like shrimp and grits, and if you locate a Southern style cook book, you can find numerous tasty ideas. You can add most anything to grits.
Grits became a staple in the South, because they are inexpensive and add bulk to a meal. This was particularly important when farm work was the standard and a worker needed a hearty breakfast to make it through a morning of heavy work.
Grits to a Southern boy are kind of like baked beans are to a Boston guy - gotta have 'em.
Don't make the mistake I once did, though. I was visiting Brooklynn, New York, and a restaurant had grits listed on the menu. For a minute or so, I thought civilization had moved to the big city. Now, I don't know what that stuff was, but it sure as hell wasn't grits. Come south to get familiar with grits, or at least try them prepared by somebody who been here before.
Some people like them, and some never will, but do try them out.
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Jalapeño cheddar grits are :thumbsup: !!!!! My neighbor next to my farm owns his own diner and he makes eggs, fried crappie, and jalapeño cheddar grits for breakfast!! Awesome!
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Did somebody say fish n grits?? How about some fried catfish with grits....slab of butter, salt, pepper, and Luzianne Cajun seasoning. Don't forget the coffee...strong an black :coffee: ... Laripin... :jumper:
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OH you dog!!!!!!!!! Where is the okra??? :bigsmyl:
Our palate is very similar. :cool: I give you 50 extra points on the strong coffee. :D
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Looks good Ron!!
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A little butter and a sprinklin of sugar is good for the sweet toothe. I will add for the uninformed, wash the pot after eating cause they do tend to set up.
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Man I just et an now I'm hungry again .
Franks red hot , I put that sh%t on everything :thumbsup:
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Kinda odd I love oatmeal and hate gritts. Plus I have a southern mother thats a great cook family all over the gulf coast who I see alot and they love the stuff just not my cup of tea I guess but steak and eggs is best just not with grits
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i had to google grits.
turns out it's like a corn porridge.
isn't that what you bait hogs with?
:p
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You can have my share of the grits, Ron!
I'll stick with home fries.
Bisch
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Ya know Ron, for a Yankee, you could could almost pass for a Southerner when it comes to good eats. I like the way you cook.
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Not a big fan of grits, give me hash brown taters.
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As a rule when I was single I would not date a Girl that did not like grits....
Mr. Ron the Fish and grits are a favorite of mine....of course I get stares when I`m hunting and break out a snack of cornbread.RC
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Ron,
I'm sitting here at work starving and you go and post this thread!!! Man that looks and sounds delicious! I'm trying not to lick the computer screen...LOL!
It may be blasphemy to say this about making grits...but I love em with a lil fresh cream blended with fresh blackberries and then mixed up with the grits for breakfast every now and then. Kinda makes the grits a little sweet but tart with the blackberries. I like them with eggs and hot sauce too, yummy... :thumbsup:
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Thank God I was raised eating them....especially with runny eggs!
Ozy Clint-
The reason hogs are so tasty is the fact that they DO eat corn in all forms!
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That's some fine eat'in right there brother, I promise ya!
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I am a grit fanatic myself. I had fried spam , cheesy grits, and coffee this morning. MMMM, but kippers and grits are good too
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I had some this morn with grated smoked cheddar cheese on them and two eggs + hot sauce. WOW !
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That looks great !