Recipe: Grits for Lorilee Australia

There are a lot of grits recipes around. Besides cooking them & serving them as a side dish, with lots of butter, salt & pepper at breakfast, you can pour the same mixture into a pan & let them cool. Refrigerate them until they are chilled. Once they are chilled, take them out of the pan & slice and/or cut into squares or shapes. Fry them in butter until crispy on one side, then turn & fry on the other side until that side is crispy. My family sometimes likes these with something like a main course chicken Caesar salad, instead of bread. If you use yellow grits or cornmeal, the color is pretty with a salad but the white grits are good to use as well. As far as I know, there isn't any taste difference between the yellow & white grits - just the color.
After you cook the grits with the water & salt, you can also add cheddar and/or American cheese (until it melts), garlic powder & jalapeno peppers,chopped, and beaten eggs (but blend some of the warm/hot grits into the eggs first, then add the eggs to the rest of the grits) & pour into a greased casserole. Sprinkle with extra cheese & bake at 350 F for about 20 min. This can be used as a side dish for grilled meat like steak or however you wish to have them.
Some people mentioned hominy. Hominy is the same thing as grits but canned, not dried & ground. It comes in a can &, as someone said, looks a bit like popcorn. My mother (no real recipe) always drained it & fried it in bacon grease. I loved it as a child:-)!! You can use butter instead of bacon grease but be careful since it kind of pops when you fry it. Again, salt & pepper is a must. Let it get a little crispy. I think we had this as a side dish for dinner when my mother fixed it. It is very easy to prepare.
Grits are very popular in the South & less so up here in the North but we do have one restaurant that gives you a choice of grits or hash browned potatoes with your breakfast. My husband is originally from Louisiana so we do eat grits as well as potatoes with our big breakfasts when we have them. I hope that this gives you some ideas & that you are able to get ahold of grits so you can try them. Some people love them & others aren't so crazy about them. They don't have a lot of flavor so the butter, salt & pepper are a must.