Let's talk about grits

[Doc Shapiro]

3 minutes ago, watab kid said:

we have the same pallet here , all of it , as to refried beans - i dont like them the first time they are fried , a mouthful of mush to fill your stomach , 

 

dont get me wrong , i know there are healthy reasons to eat them but for the life of me i choose not to , i like green beans and string beans ,im fond of a little baked beans once in a while if made just right ,  only one ill never ever touch again is lima beans  

Beans and my GI tract do not get along.  So I just won't eat them.  More detail is not needed...

[Rip Snorter]

8 minutes ago, Doc Shapiro said:

Beans and my GI tract do not get along.  So I just won't eat them.  More detail is not needed...

I think that is called Gas - tronomy.

[Eyesa Horg]

17 minutes ago, watab kid said:

we have the same pallet here , all of it , as to refried beans - i dont like them the first time they are fried , a mouthful of mush to fill your stomach , 

 

dont get me wrong , i know there are healthy reasons to eat them but for the life of me i choose not to , i like green beans and string beans ,im fond of a little baked beans once in a while if made just right ,  only one ill never ever touch again is lima beans  

Same except I love Lima beans! 😋

[watab kid]

16 minutes ago, Doc Shapiro said:

Beans and my GI tract do not get along.  So I just won't eat them.  More detail is not needed...

i understand that well , mine either , its just not pleasant 

[watab kid]

2 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Same except I love Lima beans! 😋

OK < so what is it about lima beans you like ? 

 

in my life they were dry , tasteless and generally like eating paper " i really want to know as your the first to say you have a taste for them to say so to me , i dont like soy either but they are similar to me 

[Rip Snorter]

Lima beans on the short list with beets.  NFW!

[Rip Snorter]

There is a reason the ham and lima ration pack got its Viet Nam nickname!

[Eyesa Horg]

4 minutes ago, watab kid said:

OK < so what is it about lima beans you like ? 

 

in my life they were dry , tasteless and generally like eating paper " i really want to know as your the first to say you have a taste for them to say so to me , i dont like soy either but they are similar to me 

I don't like the soy at all either!

Maybe it's the blandness I like. I really don't know! I smother them with butter and just a light hit of salt. I think as real finicky as a kid so I'm guessing it was something I'd eat. Won't even think about retrying cauliflower and broccoli, most squashes either. 😁

[Eyesa Horg]

7 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

Lima beans on the short list with beets.  NFW!

I'll eat beets in limited doses! Again smothered in butter!

[Doc Shapiro]

32 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

I think that is called Gas - tronomy.

It's far worse.

[Rip Snorter]

2 minutes ago, Doc Shapiro said:

It's far worse.

BTDT!

[Doc Shapiro]

29 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

BTDT!

I do not know what that means, but that's ok. 

[Rip Snorter]

Just now, Doc Shapiro said:

I do not know what that means, but that's ok. 

Been there done that!

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I'm with you until you mentioned green beans and sting beans.  Can't tolerate them and I'd starve to death in a swimming pool full of lima beans before I'd let any get in  my mouth.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

14 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

I'll eat beets in limited doses! Again smothered in butter!

I like pickled beets in moderation...about a serving every five or six months.

[Eyesa Horg]

Never acquired the taste for anything pickled. I still try a dill from a barrel every other decade and still make a face like I just ate a whole lemon! It kinda sucks being finicky. Especially when invited to dinner. Sometimes I just do my best to grin and bare it. At least I can restrain the gag reflex in my senior years. 🤪

[Blackwater 53393]

There’s thing that I like that are pickled, but beets for damn sure ain’t one of ‘em!!

 

I had me some chicken ‘n’ biscuits with bacon and cheese for breakfast, but we’re out of grits!!  They’d have been good with some of that bacon and a big chunk of butter ‘n’ some honey!

 

Aw well!  We’re gonna be doin’ some shoppin’ in a day or two…

[MizPete]

4 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

like pickled beets in moderation...about a serving every five or six months.

I could eat them every. single. day.  I caught the side-eye from most of the pards when I ordered them at the Belle Buckle Cafe.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Beets are great! Pickled, roasted with butter,  salt,  and pepper.  Boiled,  then sliced and sautéed in butter.  In soups and stews.

 

Lima beans make a great high protein dip.  https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/lima-bean-dip-recipe-1973811

[Blackwater 53393]

Y’all are welcome to my share of the beets!!  You can leave the grits to me!!

[watab kid]

On 7/27/2025 at 8:41 PM, Eyesa Horg said:

I don't like the soy at all either!

Maybe it's the blandness I like. I really don't know! I smother them with butter and just a light hit of salt. I think as real finicky as a kid so I'm guessing it was something I'd eat. Won't even think about retrying cauliflower and broccoli, most squashes either. 😁

ok , i guess we all have different tastes , i rather like cauliflower and broccoli , and i cant tell you exactly why they appeal to me but i agree with the butter and salt ., 

[Rip Snorter]

1 minute ago, watab kid said:

ok , i guess we all have different tastes , i rather like cauliflower and broccoli , and i cant tell you exactly why they appeal to me but i agree with the butter and salt ., 

Actually, "clouds & trees", a steamed, buttered mix of cauliflower and broccoli, were and are a family favorite on the rare get togethers.

[watab kid]

1 minute ago, Rip Snorter said:

Actually, "clouds & trees", a steamed, buttered mix of cauliflower and broccoli, were and are a family favorite on the rare get togethers.

thats how we did it too , most of the family enjoy them here ......but i like mushrooms [fresh] and there is a significant part of the family that wont touch them - dont even want them to touch their food , no to seeing them , 

[Rip Snorter]

1 minute ago, watab kid said:

thats how we did it too , most of the family enjoy them here ......but i like mushrooms [fresh] and there is a significant part of the family that wont touch them - dont even want them to touch their food , no to seeing them , 

Do the "Shrooms on the side with butter and a touch of garlic as a garnish in its own little bowl, everybody happy!

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

7 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

Beets are great! Pickled, roasted with butter,  salt,  and pepper.  Boiled,  then sliced and sautéed in butter.  In soups and stews. 

Lima beans make a great high protein dip.  https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/lima-bean-dip-recipe-1973811

Lima beans are okay if you feed them to a pig first then turn them into bacon.

 

Try mushrooms fried in butter with a touch of soy sauce and a sprinkle of garlic salad seasoning...not much of either one.

[Blackwater 53393]

Another great grits dish!! Sauté some mushrooms with garlic, onion and bell pepper in butter. Save the pan drippings and slow fry up some mild Italian sausage or spicy bratwurst in it, (you can add a little more butter if needed) and then cut up and set the sausage aside.

 

Cook up the grits and get ‘em nice and fluffy. Dump the mushroom, onion, bell pepper mixture back into the pan with the sausage and then stir in your grits while maintaining low heat.

 

Serve with a cold salad or with, (my favorite) cold sliced and salted tomatoes.

 

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

32 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Try mushrooms fried in butter with a touch of soy sauce and a sprinkle of garlic salad seasoning...not much of either one

 

Yep.  Cut thick slices of portobello mushrooms,  fry up in oil, a little black pepper,  hit with soy sauce in the last 30 seconds.  Makes a nice mock ham sandwich with mustard,  tomato,  and lettuce on sourdough. One of my favorites during fasts.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

9 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Yep.  Cut thick slices of portobello mushrooms,  fry up in oil, a little black pepper,  hit with soy sauce in the last 30 seconds.  Makes a nice mock ham sandwich with mustard,  tomato,  and lettuce on sourdough. One of my favorites during fasts.

Do you still call it "fasting" if you eat a half dozen of those?

 

That added some ideas to my menu.  Thanks.

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Do you still call it "fasting" if you eat a half dozen of those?

 

That added some ideas to my menu.  Thanks.

 

Who said half a dozen? 

 

One modest meal a day, no vertebrae products....yeah...that's fasting. 

[watab kid]

23 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:

Do the "Shrooms on the side with butter and a touch of garlic as a garnish in its own little bowl, everybody happy!

we like it cooked into the dishes on pizza , in our breakfast quiche and buttered over steak , we have harvested in the boundry waters cannoe area , voyagers national park and all ove camping in the past , my wife cooks well over a camp stove or grill/griddle , mix em with brussel sprouts and a steak grilled over a wood fire , 

 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

11 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Who said half a dozen? 

 

One modest meal a day, no vertebrae products....yeah...that's fasting. 

So! Crustaceans, cephalopods, and shellfish are fair game for “fasting”??

[Subdeacon Joe]

10 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

So! Crustaceans, cephalopods, and shellfish are fair game for “fasting”??

 

 

Yes, and no.  If it's a luxury during any other time of the year, while by the letter of the fast, it's allowed, but in keeping with the sprit of and reason for the fast, you really shouldn't.  We also fast from "wine," which is taken to mean all alcohol, although it's allowed on weekends as the Resurrectional nature of Saturday and Sunday are not completely negated by the fast, also some feast days during the fasts allow wine and fish.  
Some allow amphibians during the fast, although technically not allowed, and I think it's in the Slavonic Typicon that beer is allowed.  

We also are supposed to fast from entertainment and marital relations during the fast, and increase almsgiving and prayer.  

 

But better, as some elders and Fathers of the Church have said, to not fast at all, than to try to lawyer around the strict letter, and to gossip, and such.

“Whoever fasts from food but the heart does not fast from anxiety and hatred, and the tongue speaks vanity, then this fasting is in vain. For fasting of the tongue is better than fasting of the mouth, and fasting of the heart is better than them both” (Saint Isaac the Syrian)

[Alpo]

11 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

But better, as some elders and Fathers of the Church have said, to not fast at all, than to try to lawyer around the strict letter, and to gossip, and such

They got guard house lawyers everywhere, don't they.

[Subdeacon Joe]

5 minutes ago, Alpo said:

They got guard house lawyers everywhere, don't they.

 

Yep.  I was about to edit my post with, "Think of it as a Spirit of the Game thing."  There are ways to "legally cheat" but fall outside the spirit of the rules.  Periods of fasting aren't punishment, or atonement, but tools to use.  
 

[Pulp, SASS#28319]

I always like Flint Westwood’s comment about grits; “a bag of grits and some water will make enough thinset to tile a small room.”

 

Anyone else remember Flint?  Sure do miss his wit and wisdom around here.