June 10, 2008
SoFAB

Kathy Anderson/The Times-Picayune
The Southern Food and Beverage Museum: “dedicated to the discovery, understanding and celebration of the culture of food and drink in the South.”
(Memo to India: A Red Velvet Cake Wing?)
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I like grits. So sue me. (No, not really. Please don’t sue me. But I do like grits.)
I make pretty durn good grits (as grits go). This is a knack I acquired only recently. In my Connecticut Yankee refugee home, grits were ranked on a par with okra. And anything fried.
I love grits. One of my favorite dishes is low country shrimp on a grilled grit cake with Tabasco-bacon pan sauce, available at Hattie’s in Oak Cliff.
Oh, Amy, that shrimp dish looks so fine. Yes, I just had to look at the photo. And then I just had to skim the Hattie’s menu. Mmm.
I like to use my rice cooker to fix nice coarse grits. They wind up with a texture somewhere between steel-cut oatmeal and couscous. Then I lay on the fixin’s.