Often, what I want to eat for breakfast and what I want to make for breakfast are very different things. Cold cereal was out of the question anyway because we’re out of milk and we don’t have any good finger cereals like Fruit Loops or Cap’n Crunch. We have Cheerios but I hate Cheerios.
What I really wanted anyway was grits which requires standing at the microwave and stopping it every 10 – 15 seconds so it doesn’t boil over and make a mess (My life is so hard [/sarcasm]) so after several minutes of trying to think of something quicker I started making the grits – measure the water, the grits, add a dash of salt and a dollop of butter, (Country Crock spreadable butter, just to help you get the picture right in your mind) put it in the microwave, put the butter back in the refrigerator, go back and watch the grits. When it was done I was going to add a couple of spoonfuls of the sharp cheddar cheese spread that we have in the refrigerator and then put it back in the microwave for a few seconds to melt it, so I walk back to the refrigerator (I know… I could have gotten out the cheese when I put away the butter.) grab the cheese spread and spoon some out into the bowl of grits and…
… Dammit! It wasn’t cheese. I had grabbed the butter again by mistake. So, I went back to the refrigerator, put away the butter and got the cheese and went ahead and added that. The good news is, the grits were really, really good. The bad news is, well, you know the bad news. That was way more butter than I needed. I’ll have to make up for it at lunch by having just a fruit cup and fat free yogurt.
January 28th, 2011 - 10:29 am
Sounds really good! “…couple of spoonfuls of the sharp cheddar cheese spread” I’ll have to remember that the next time I make up a bow of grits or quinoa.
January 28th, 2011 - 12:38 pm
Lots of butter is what makes grits good.
January 28th, 2011 - 1:03 pm
Grits is one of those foods (like baked potatoes) that are only good for holding your butter and other good foods that are not socially acceptable for eating alone.
Now I’m thinking though, that maybe I should try grits with just cheese, no butter because after posting this I thought, “Both butter and cheese? That makes me look like such a pig.”
January 28th, 2011 - 3:45 pm
Is the word “grits” singular, plural, or both?
I grew up in the North; the closest thing we had to grits was Cream-O-Wheat. (Which I still like and still eat.)
January 28th, 2011 - 4:53 pm
Both, I think. I’ve never heard of a single “grit”. It’s sort of like “scissors” I guess.
January 29th, 2011 - 4:00 pm
I’ve only heard “grit,” singular, once, in Tom Lehrer’s “I Wanna Go Back to Dixie”:
“Yes, for paradise the Southland is my nominee / Just give me a hamhock and a grit of hominy.”
January 30th, 2011 - 9:26 pm
At least your mistake was substituting one edible for another edible. My more serious gaffe was grabbing the white can with yellow lid that LOOKED like cooking spray but was actually furniture polish. I’ll take extra butter grits over furniture polish eggs any time!
January 31st, 2011 - 9:28 am
Yikes! I haven’t done anything like that yet but I suppose it is inevitable.
February 1st, 2011 - 7:55 pm
Grits must be one of the few US-specific dishes that hasn’t been exported all over the world. The closest we Aussies have is porridge.
Oh and Belladonna, if you keep furniture polish stored next to cooking spray… well, I guess that mistake was inevitable.
Wade.