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"If you love corn and you hate grits, then you haven't had them done correctly", I was told after declaring my intense aversion to grits. It started many years ago when I was shipped off to a summer camp in rural Georgia (cue "Dueling Banjos" music - it was really just like Deliverance) The only thing for breakfast was gooey, foul grits. Where were the Frosted flakes? Sugar Pops? Cocoa Puffs?

So the other day I was given stern instructions: Buy fresh, stone-ground grits from Hoppin' John. Make shrimp with grits a.k.a. breakfast shrimp a.k.a. grits with shrimp gravy. Use the best shrimp, bacon, cheese, butter, etc. If I didn't like this then there would be no hope for me.

Nothing else to say but "Wow". And "OMG". I have been converted!

Funny because I went to summer camp in Georgia (Camp Coleman on Rt. 129 between Cleveland and Blairsville--not sure if it was deliverance country exactly but it was pretty much in the middle of nowhere). And I LOVE grits because I first had them there and it became one of my favorite meals--sometimes I went with butter and salt; others, it was butter and jelly (not sure this is a recommended preparation but I adored it)--yes, they became gelatinous and molded to the plastic camp plates if you didn't eat it pretty quick but it's still a fond food memory from childhood. As they say, different strokes

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“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” Elizabeth Taylor

Haute Sausage truck - Madison & Wells

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The cake is a lie

A great looking plate of one of my favorites.

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The cake is a lie

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The cake is a lie

from our garden and sautéed with pancetta

Pork fat is God's way of telling you all is right in the world.....

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Staying sane through occasional homework

mhill, I'm jealous of your yield! My sprouts are still super tiny, I don't have any even moderate-sized bulbs on any of my three plants. Not sure what went wrong this year. Yours are gorgeous.

Forgive the juvenile post but in many ways, I'm still 12 years old . . .


Soup Mix - Fresh Farms, Niles - 11.1021

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Spit out the gum, sister!

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Ravioli with chanterelles, chèvre & ricotta cheese and thyme.

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A friend made some really good smoked sausage, so we made sandwiches for the Bears game today. Sausage, fried onion and shallot, mustard and gruyere on seeded rye. They were really good.

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Ha, I almost took the same pic earlier in the week!
Did you know Beavis and Buthead are coming back to MTV? I'm like... so... stoked

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with a bit of salt and oil...

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Love pumpkin seeds! Now I have to go out and buy a pumpkin.

LOL, yes, my son informed me that it's starting this week. I didn't even know he knew who B&B were.

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I just wanna live until I gotta die. I know I ain't perfect but God knows I try. --Todd Snider

Spit out the gum, sister!

Twitter: ronniesuburban

Great minds think alike.

I have high hopes for B&B, but I keep hearing that voice in my head saying, "You can't go home again."

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Photographer/Pseudojournalist

"The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook." - Julia Child

The voices are probably right in this case. "Clearer" heads and all.

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Might I suggest a beer to pair with this soup?

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Well I got drunk and I ate a chicken
I ate a chicken I found in my kitchen
Not just a leg and not just a wing
I'd like to let you know that I ate the whole damn thing

Happy Halloween!

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HA! I have a picture of this very same soup packet on my phone, from when I spotted it in the international aisle of the Kenosha Woodman's this past summer. I guess "great" minds really do think alike

Sourdough Honeycrisp Apple Fritters:

Squash & potato gnocchi with sage and walnuts in a chicken demi glace sauce with shallots

8 oz roasted squash
8 oz baked russet potato
(both put thru food mill)

one egg
4 oz AP flour
1 tsp salt

Sauce
1 minced shallot
1 tsp oo
2 T butter
1/4 c toasted walnuts
small handful of sage
1/2 C double chicken stock

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Juice!

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working on Thanksgiving shots...

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Older siblings get most of the dinner prep but I got "Green veggie"
this should do....


blanched everything but the red peppers and will douse with
a butter / herb / S&P mix before I re-heat in the oven.

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made a light broth and fish soup

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Fettuccine alfredo is mac and cheese for adults.

Mikeska cheddar/jalapeno



Mikeska cheddar/jalapeno (left), jalapeno (right).

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Sauce on the side, always, implied, axiomatic..........never a doubt, BBQ sauce without.

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