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Best Cheese Grits EVER.

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

>матрациe has been snow here.  A lot of snow.  It’s finally starting to melt, but thanks to the snow, I have been eating a lot of cheese grits this past month.  They soothe the cabin-fevered beast and are a great warmup after shoveling snow.  But today, I had an idea – and it was a spectacular idea.  Instead of making the grits with water, why not chicken stock?  Well, the result was AWESOME.

I wish I had a photo – I took some quick shots, but when I pulled them off the memory card, they were blurry – and I’d already finished the grits by then.  (I’m quite certain I’ll be making this again, so there is hope that I can get a shot.)

Best Cheese Grits Ever:

1/4 c. old fashioned grits (NOT instant)
1 1/8 c. chicken stock or broth
2 ounces shredded chipotle cheddar cheese
salt & pepper

Bring the stock to a boil, add grits, stir well.  Set heat to LOW and cover.  After about 6 minutes I hit it with the salt & pepper.  Then at the 12 minute mark, I stir in the cheese.  I did notice that with the chicken stock, it was still a touch soupy at the 12 minute mark, so I let it go another minute or so.  (In the future I may just cut it back to 1 cup of stock.)

Once the cheese is stirred in, sit back and enjoy!

According to the grits package, 1/4 c of grits is 2 servings.  Maybe if you’re eating it with something else.  Otherwise, it’s one perfect serving on it’s own.

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French Toast

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Or Freedom Toast if you’re still hung up on the whole France thing. The other day when I was doing a quick pickup at the market, I got it in my head that I wanted French Toast sometime in the near future. And none of this mess of squishy white bread from my youth, either. (Sorry, Mom, this really was much better.) Found a little loaf of french bread (yeah, I need to carve out some time to make it here) grabbed some eggs and today it became lunch. The bread had gotten just a tiny bit stale, so it had good form to it (for lack of a better description) and didn’t get all soggy when I soaked it in the eggs & milk. Popped it in the fry pan with some butter and golden brown happiness ensued. A bit of maple syrup and a glass of cold milk, and I had the best lunch I’ve had in a while.

It is SO much better with the french bread than regular “white” bread – next time I think I’ll slice it a touch thicker, though.

Pardon the slight blur, I was attempting to photograph and defend my lunch from my cat at the same time.

Nothing special about the process – ~1 egg + splash of milk per piece of bread. Let soak ~1 minute per side. Fry up in hot butter.

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Omelet!

Thursday, June 21st, 2007
omelet

If you have trouble with omelets, get hold of Alton Brown’s Good Eats episode on the subject. I’m serious – I think that helped me more than any cookbook, cooking show or anything else. (Sadly, no pics. I was too busy being astonished and then too hungry to do anything but sit down and eat.)

I’d pretty much resigned myself to a lifetime of scrambled eggs and frittatas as my omelet skills had not proven themselves up to the task, but today I got a wild hair and decided I wanted an omelet for lunch.

I pulled out my “perfect” omelet pan (who knew the cheapo nonstick I bought years ago would be great for omelets? And the perfect size for 2 egg omelets.) and started with cooking up some bacon and reserved some of the grease for the omelet. (OK, I know butter is the norm, but IT’S BACON GREASE! I don’t have it that often! It’s yummy!)

Poured my two eggs into the pan and shook, swirled, and scraped appropriately. It actually was looking like it did on TV! Tossed a little bit of cheese in the middle. Couldn’t do a tri fold cause one side got a little messed up, but it worked fine for just folding it in half.

Had to help it out of the pan a little bit with the spatula, but no disastrous sticking at all.

Not only did it LOOK like an omelet, it TASTED like one, too!! (As opposed to the “scrambled eggs with cheese” I so often end up with.)

Only thing I think I did wrong was I had the heat a touch too high cause the outside was a little browned (but not burned) so I’ll remember to turn it down a touch next time.

Funny how the little things can put such a big freakin’ grin on your face.

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