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[jay-ell]

I decided to dig around for some springier/summerier recipes, since it's getting warmer 'round these parts and I'm not feelin' the heavier fall-and-winter food that's been making up my rotation lately. Found a recipe for chicken breaded in shredded coconut. Which is great, because I have all this shredded coconut left over from another recipe I made once and didn't care for.

I will post it if it's good.

[Nabubrush]

Coconut shrimp is fantastic - I would posit that this would likewise be so.

[jay-ell]

Never had coconut shrimp -- shellgiraffe allergy -- but I think it will be a big hit with Chaos Girl. It's the kind of thing she can help with, and it comes with dipping sauce. Those are absolutely her two favorite things.

[AugustWest]

Grits is such a staple around here that I don't have a recipe.  I cook like my Grandmother.  I put enough of the right ingredients in and most of the time it turns out good.

I usually do some variation of this:

Boil water w/ a country ham scrap or two, ham bone or teaspoon or so of bacon grease. 

Add to the water:
teaspoon worcestershire sauce
teaspoon garlic powder, maybe supplemented with a crushed clove or two of fresh garlic
some hot sauce, usually tabasco, but what have you.
salt

When it boils, stir the grits in.  After they cook for a minute or two and start to thicken, stir in 1 to 1 1/2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese, the sharper the better.

Eat.

 If I have half a block of cream cheese that needs to be used, I might stir that in.  This is also good to do with mashed potatoes.  Good in the sense of tasty, not healthy.

[Choop]

props to ya. basically my recipe up there subs some spices in for hot sauce and uses bacon chunks instead of boiled pigfat, and adds a tomato and basil; otherwise pretty much the same. most people eat grits on the side, but when i eat grits i just eat grits. i don't need pancakes with my oatmeal knameen? just gimme that and a spoon.

i make mashed potatoes with half sour cream, half plain yogurt. adds some tang, cuts down on the sourness, and they're super creamy without being super duper terrible for you.

[jay-ell]

I have lived in the South for 19 years but I still cannot abide grits. Oatmeal with brown sugar and cinnamon, please.

[Nabubrush]

I am doing a steel-cut oats w/blueberries thing. My healthy buddy tells me to go paleo and not eat grains or dairy, but I think that is just the newest iteration of random diet lunacy (see: Atkins et al). I do wish there was more bacon and cheese in my morning bowl, though.

[CortJstr]

I am doing a steel-cut oats w/blueberries thing.

I find the very concept of breakfast revolting but when I do have to eat it I go with overnight-oatmeal. 10 minutes of effort the night before means a bowl of hot steel-cut oats is ready to go in the morning. I'm sure it would be even easier if I owned a slow-cooker.

[AugustWest]

I find the very concept of breakfast revolting but when I do have to eat it I go with overnight-oatmeal. 10 minutes of effort the night before means a bowl of hot steel-cut oats is ready to go in the morning. I'm sure it would be even easier if I owned a slow-cooker.

My problem with the crock pot steel cut oats is that, to my taste, it overcooks them.  The firmer texture and "pop" when you bite them are very appealing to me and you don't get that with the overnight method. 

[Nabubrush]

You can cook them?

[greenkoolayd]

when my brothers and i were kids my mom would sometimes make us cream of wheat with raisins for breakfast.  add sugar and milk, and engage.  i havent had it in years, though.

[AugustWest]

when my brothers and i were kids my mom would sometimes make us cream of wheat with raisins for breakfast.  add sugar and milk, and engage.  i havent had it in years, though.

Wow.  Cream of Wheat.  I used to looove that stuff.  With white sugar, cinnamon and butter.  Damn.

[littlefallsmets]

But you have Poutine!

That's what Jawas yell when they die.

POU-TIN-E!

[side_show]

That noodle thing is wacky Ash.  Never heard of that one and it sound straight up gross to me, but I don't like hot dogs at all.  I guess maybe it's a sacrid meal of the worshipers of the Spaghetti monster?

[CortJstr]

That noodle thing is wacky Ash.  Never heard of that one and it sound straight up gross to me, but I don't like hot dogs at all.  I guess maybe it's a sacrid meal of the worshipers of the Spaghetti monster?

I'm not a fan of hot dogs either (unless, as we've discussed before, they have hot dog sauce) but the thing from Wigu sounds temping. A hot dog in a taco shell with mac & cheese on top.