Coffee grounds instead of cornmeal?

[Bob McBride]

Coffee grounds vs. Cornmeal? I can’t pick between those two. That’s just cruel to even suggest such a thing.

 

[tenngun]

Some folks like grits with honey, some with butter. I like grits with a lotta butter. Hominy about the same. Some mix the stuff up with eggs, but I like them separate.

Try them with cheese and chopped jalapeño peppers, or with smoked peppers and a bit bacon.
Even Yankees I made it for, who never liked grits, ate it up and asked for more.
However if you use it as a filler the cheese makes a mess.

 

[Eterry]

Someone on here years ago during the Grit Wars mentioned frying grits after you cooked them.
This i tried and it takes a while but it's really good. Kinda like fried rice.

As a boy in the impoverished south you could go to the store and hominy was sold in burlap sacks. I think the small sack was 10 lbs.
The WWI veteran dad took in ate grits and salt pork every morning, hoe cakes for lunch with Brear Rabbit syrup. He had a million stories, was 29 before he saw a car. I wish I'd paid more attention.

 

[bore_butter]

never tried the fried rice but we do fry colby cheesy grits all the time. we take the left over and spray the bottom of a tupperware type container with a shot of pam and spread out the grits out evenly. lid it up and let set in the fridge for about 2 days and they set up real good. pop them out and sprinkle some Tony Chachere's creole seasoning and cut into 1x3 inch pieces roll in corn starch and put into the fry dady.

 

[Griz44Mag]

It IS more coarse though than the other more commonly used fillers though, so finer powders may find a way to migrate in between the grain spaces, and create inconsistent velocities.

I grind my own coffee for espresso. It's a very fine grind close to a powder. That could be an answer to that issue?

 

[mooman76]

Coffee may be coarse but it is relatively soft compared to COW or grits.

 

[VADSLRAM]

What's Hominy?

Hominy grits??
Oh 3 or 4 depending on how hungry I am