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(22,037 posts)jpak
(41,758 posts)yum
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)Only if I get 4 slices, crisp!😽
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Ohiogal
(32,005 posts)This is a Southern delicacy, right?
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Try it! 😋
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Grits are a staple of the South.
janterry
(4,429 posts)Or is it something else?
I've made polenta. I have no idea what mush is.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)fierywoman
(7,684 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 19, 2018, 11:15 PM - Edit history (1)
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)fierywoman
(7,684 posts)made with polenta waffles-- with some jalapeño inside -- major yum!
Wawannabe
(5,661 posts)I am close by Lynnwood.
Sounds yum!
fierywoman
(7,684 posts)4027 196th St SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036
I like to go between meals hours 'cuz they can be really busy at regular meal times.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)I like grits. And I like fried stuff.
So far, so good.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)is to die for
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)And cheesy grits!
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Some different brands of grits are also finer than others. I prefer stone ground yellow corn grits to all of the above.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)My grandmother would make it quite often for us when I was growing up.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Mush is made from regular corn meal. Polenta is Italian style corn meal which comes in various consistencies. Grits are typically either made from stone ground yellow corn or ground hominy. Sometimes grits are also labeled as polenta and vise versa, but there's some subtle differences.
You can fry any of the above, but my favorite is...
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)It is filling and sticks to the ribs. The crispier, the better.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Bantamfancier
(366 posts)It's my goto choice for breakfast at Bob Evans.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Depression Food. Very common dish served in the Mid West during and after WW2. Grand Parents ground their own Corn Meal as well as Oat meal during the Forties.
Still remember my Grand Mother grinding corn with her table top meat grinder as a little brat.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Gramp's own Maple Syrup which we helped with each spring.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)He'd buy a bag of grits and a pound of velveeta. Made the grits, melted in the velveeta, let it set up and eat wedges for food all week.
I think it had a lot to do with many of the health problems he experienced in later life. It's amazing he never came down with scurvy.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Is it really considered cheese?
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Funky orange and totally fake!
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)But given my druthers, I'll take the Velveeta!
Wawannabe
(5,661 posts)Nice one!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)product that should be banned from the world. Just remember,do not read the label when using. One of Kraft Foods Food Scientist's concoctions . You just do not want to see this stuff made,believe me.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)I was sharing a house with some people and they bought that stuff as the cheapest relation to cheese out there. Nasty stuff! That was only one of the things that made me happy to move out.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)It isn't all that scary. If it bothered you I'm not sure you'd want to see how so-called "real" cheese is made or what it's made from.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Worked in a Cheese Plant part time as a high school kid. The Old Man was the chief Butter Maker and made up the Cultures for the Cheese Guy''s.
And yes,have been in one of the Velveeta Plants many a time. Interesting how real cheese is softened and blended with those secret ingredients to produce a shelf stable edible product.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I use processed cheese products sometimes when I want a quick melting cheese that won't separate under high heat. The best philly's are made with cheese whiz. I had one in Philly just the other day.
I'm also a big fan of so-called "real" cheese and make it myself from time to time. I also appreciate the time and skills required to make the best commercial cheeses.
I think all the controversy over so-called "real" cheese vs processed products is mostly manufactured by cheese lobbying groups. Both products have their culinary place.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Their is a place for both .
And yes,"Real" is and was the efforts of Dairy Industry to boost marketing and sales. It was a effort to save the Dairy Industry in the Upper Mid West from the Mega operations in California and Idaho.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I see it as basically a legalized form of strong arm mafia tactics. They also use the USDA, CDC, and other government regulators to attack raw milk producers which kills the specialty milk and cheese markets. I can't even buy vat pasteurized milk anymore around here as the market has gone almost exclusively to UHT methods that extend shelf life, but kill anything remotely resembling flavor.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)the bottom line. Our Dairy Plant experimented with UHT in the early fifties. All about shipping canned whole milk to Alaska and overseas. Kraft Foods,at that time owned the Patent on the Process. The Old Man ran the Canning Process as well as the UHT process.
Little side bar,the first Semi Trailer that was sent to Alaska ran off a cliff in B.C.. Talk about a oops.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)It's more expensive to produce unpasteurized milk with more rigorous standards, and it doesn't lend itself to large scale production and distribution networks.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Got out of the Dairy business in 1962. It was either go Mega and end up with long term lose lose fluid Milk contracts with Dairy's who were destined to fail .
The only thing that is saving the Dairy Industry today is,the Butter Fat portion of fluid milk. Ice Cream is carrying the day. And that industry is controlled by White Wave Foods. Which is now owned by a Hedge Fund who loves to destroy business's .
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Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)My grandmother (who lived through the depression) would fry the previous days grits in bacon drippings. She would do the same thing with day old biscuits split in half. Nothing went to waste and leftovers were as good or better than before.
procon
(15,805 posts)Fried Polenta. When I buy it, I prefer polenta with a coarser grind than cornmeal, but they both taste wonderful. Adding butter, syrup, molasses, jam, honey, or stewed fruit, is mandatory. And you can't go amiss with a bit of crumbly bacon, sausage or diced ham scattered on top.
My brother cuts his cornmeal mush into narrow strips, fries them like potatoes and serves them with ketchup to accompany fried shrimp and clams.
KG
(28,751 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)I get the pre-made Polenta at Trader Joe's, is that considered mush?
I slice it up, fry it and then bake it with a little cheese on top and covered with homemade tomato sauce - one of my wife's favorite meals.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)Also fried bologna, if anyone ever had that. I liked it really crispy
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Loved fried bologna aka hobo steak!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)One of the meat items that you did not need a Ration Stamp for in the Mid Forties Local Mercantile Store sold it in three Pound Tins,didn't need Refrigeration,cheap as heck and the tin cans were re-purposed as plant protectors in the garden.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)MFM008
(19,814 posts)I liked it!
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Love it.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Kilgore
(1,733 posts)Fry the bacon and/or sausage
Fry the mush slices until crispy golden
Enjoy with a little syrup.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)I love polenta, even though its a spattering nightmare to fry.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Problem solved!
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)How can anyone put that into their poor body?!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)As for the rest of my body!
Freddie
(9,267 posts)Is corn meal mush with "pork products" in it. Usually served for breakfast, pan-fried. It's good if crispy on the outside. There is considerable debate over the preferred condiment for scrapple, pancake syrup or ketchup. I vote ketchup.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Kilgore
(1,733 posts)I use sage sausage and add a bit of cyanne pepper for a bite.
Pairs very well with fried mush and a side of black coffee and biscuits
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)Chickpea flour, olive oil, water. Molded and made into fries.
Good stuff.