Foreign food

[Freewheeling Andy]

I'm not plebian, but I'm no fan of caviar.

 

Nor am I a fan of grits.

 

I did like Monday's rosemary polenta, though.

[Michelle]

Well at least we're off the subject of Rocky Mountain Oysters!

[muggle not]

Well at least we're off the subject of Rocky Mountain Oysters!

 

Kell, give the grits a try. They are also good when cooked in "chicken broth" instead of water. Sometimes we will cook them in chicken broth and then after done mix in some pepperjack cheese and sprinkle liberally extra cheese on top and bake the grits for 10 minutes. When having basic grits I really like to mix in about a tablespoon of maple syrup with my serving.

 

I have a "lazy Man's recipe" for making polenta that is every bit as good as doing it the hard way on top of the stove and constantly stirring it. I will post my recipe for the polenta in the recipe topic.

[Kell]

So are the grits sweet or savoury? I'm getting all confused now!

[muggle not]

Grits can be used many ways and fixed many ways.

 

Basic grits are normally a breakfast food. Simply cook the grits in water and serve for breakfast with bacon, sausage, etc. Most people mix a little butter in their serving of grits.

 

They can also be fancied up and used as an accompaniment to dinner (instead of a potato, etc) and eaten with fish, steak, etc. My mention of baking it and mixing in cheese was one way we ate it with red snapper for a dinner.

 

There are a few recipes on the Quaker box of Grits.

[Mamacita]

Kell, directly answering your question:

 

Grits are "neutral"...they take on the flavor of whatever you put with it. If it's breakfast, I like my grits swimming in butter, salt and pepper. Don't care for them sweet, though I'd probably like them okay if I put butter, brown sugar and a bit of table cream with them.

 

If you want to try something interesting with them, after you cook them, drop them by spoonsful in a greased skillet and fry them, like you would polenta patties, then use them the same way.

[Michelle]

All this information about a food we probably don't have over here! Can you imagine asking the youngster in Sainsburys where the Grits are!?

[Mamacita]

You'd probably get the same kind of look I got the first time I asked the stockclerk at Winn-Dixie for 'tortillas'. :? I had to say "you know, the thin, white, bread-like thing that your Taco Bell burrito is wrapped in???" Duh!

[Kell]

I get the "duh?" look from supermarket folks even when I'm asking for sliced turkey at the deli & pointing to the required item - LOL!

[Kristen Painter]

I thought I smelled grits...mmm. Cheese grits rule. Especially if you mix in some chopped up bacon.

 

Oh man, my mouth is watering.

[Louiseog]

I thought I smelled grits...mmm. Cheese grits rule. Especially if you mix in some chopped up bacon.

 

Oh man, my mouth is watering.

Excuse me she says politely and very Britishly... what are grits?

[Kristen Painter]

Read back a few posts - Mamacita gives a much better description than I could.

[Louiseog]

Read back a few posts - Mamacita gives a much better description than I could.

oops should have done that !

[Kristen Painter]

It's all right. I'm just too lazy to explain. lol

[Galactic Space Hamster]

I generally eat whatever the locals eat. I really enjoy trying new things. Over the years I have tried quite a number of "strange" things.

 

Horse

Testicles

Cow stomach stew

Guts roasted on a stick

Octopus

Snails

Frogs legs

Crocodile

 

And from the UK that would be foreign to those not living here...

 

black pudding ( blood and oatmeal sausage )

Haggis ( heart, lungs, kidney of a sheep boiled in it's own stomach )

Pork scratchings ( pig skin in a bag )

 

Probably the only thing I would baulk at is anything that is still alive and wriggling. Other than that... serve it up!

[Sofia]

my niece and sister also LOVE blood sausage...I literally gag :nono:

[Maureen]

I generally eat whatever the locals eat. I really enjoy trying new things. Over the years I have tried quite a number of "strange" things.

 

Horse

Shall be having some tomorrow ;-)

 

Octopus

Snails

 

We eat these regularly over here. Delicious too, if properly cooked.

[Renniemist]

Snails

Frogs legs

 

 

 

Hope to have some when I

[Louiseog]

I generally eat whatever the locals eat. I really enjoy trying new things. Over the years I have tried quite a number of "strange" things.

 

Octopus

Snails

Frogs legs

Done all them

 

And from the UK that would be foreign to those not living here...

 

black pudding ( blood and oatmeal sausage )

Haggis ( heart, lungs, kidney of a sheep boiled in it's own stomach )

Pork scratchings ( pig skin in a bag ) LOVE these

 

 

Cannot face... rabbit!

[Sofia]

I can't eat rabbit either. We had a rabbit once which I considered my pet...next thing I knew it was gone and we had rabbit for dinner!! :shock:

[Kristen Painter]

I had haggis for the first time on our last trip to the UK. It was really good. Like spicy meatloaf.

 

I can't imagine eating horse. It's not really an accepted meat in the US, except for use in dog food. What does it taste like?

[Kell]

I once had a horse steak when I was in Holland on a school trip. Everyone was eating it fine till they found out what it was. I still ate mine - I figured I was already enjoying it, so knowing it was horse half-way through shouldn't bother me. It was lovely & tender - not so dark as beef but not so light as pork. Horse tastes like horse - LOL!

[Freewheeling Andy]

Yeah. It's like a lightish tasting beef. It's red meat, though. Very nice.

[Galactic Space Hamster]

 

Octopus

Snails

 

We eat these regularly over here. Delicious too, if properly cooked.

 

Yeah, those are yummy! I really like octopus and snails both. What part of the world are you in?

 

And as for horse, it's yummy too. As others mentioned it does taste like steak although not completely.

[Maureen]

I live in Malta - Europe - Earth