{"id":2344,"date":"2009-09-13T07:53:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T14:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosemaryandthegoat.com\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2021-06-29T15:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T22:28:41","slug":"shrimp-and-cheese-grits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosemaryandthegoat.com\/?p=2344","title":{"rendered":"Shrimp and Cheese Grits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charleston was a delight and the food was absolutely wonderful and shrimp and grits is one of my favorites.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Shut my mouth! I declare! Butter my biscuit! I feel like I should be saying all these things about these Shrimp and Cheese Grits.<\/p>\n

My daughter and I just returned from Charleston. This was our 4th  mother\/daughter trip and this year we shared it with my twin sister and her son.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in southeast Missouri, which is right on the Arkansas and Tennessee borders and the Mississippi river, I always thought of myself as a southerner. We ate southern food like black eyed peas, hog jowl, fried green tomatoes, fried pork chops, fried chicken (everything good and fried) but I never had grits growing up.<\/p>\n

In fact, I didn’t have grits until I lived in Kansas City and a neighbor from Atlanta brought me over a bowl of buttered grits one morning. They were so smooth and creamy I fell in love with them. After that, I experimented with shrimp and cheese grits and they are my favorite to this day.<\/p>\n

Upon arriving in Charleston we had a late lunch at Fleet Landing down by the water. I had a wonderful fried green tomato stacked with crab salad, which I plan to try to make soon. We got into the laid back pace of Charleston pretty quickly. Sailing, champagne, wine, oysters, shrimp, fried green tomatoes— ahhhh!<\/p>\n

Our first night we all took a low country cooking class at Charleston Cooks<\/a>. There were 11 of us in the class and we all pitched in and by the end of the class we had before us a beautiful plate of Lime, Tomato and Grilled Corn Salad, Pulled Pork BBQ with Sweet Mustard Sauce, Carolina Red Rice, Blue Cheese Slaw and the yummiest Fried Peach Pies with vanilla ice cream. We ate it all!.<\/p>\n

This particular recipe for shrimp and grits came from a 1990’s  Bon Appetit magazine in what use to be there RSVP section. Not sure if they still do this but back then people could write in and request a recipe from a restaurant they had visited. Usually one was printed either from the restaurant or one that the magazine tested. This recipe was a request from Crook’s Corner in Chapel Hill, NC. Only thing I changed was I used cheese grits instead of plain grits.<\/p>\n

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One day we went to the farmer’s market and bought some produce and these wonderful grits. (See the email address on the package in case you want to order some.)<\/p>\n

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These are the creamiest grits I have ever tasted and I learned there is a difference in stone ground grits and the ones I have been buying in the grocery stored called “quick grits”. The stone ground grits are creamier and I think have more of a corn flavor. So, as soon as we returned home, I couldn’t wait to use these for my shrimp and grits recipe.<\/p>\n

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Shrimp, green onions, mushroom and bacon, how can that not taste wonderful on top of a plate of creamy cheese grits.<\/p>\n

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The recipe doesn’t call for browning the bacon until it is crisp but I really like the crunchy texture with the creaminess of the grits.<\/p>\n

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All the browning and cooking is done in stages and everything gets added together at the end. You can add a dash of hot sauce if you like.<\/p>\n

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A garlic tip — when you need garlic for a recipe, give it a few rough chops with your chef’s knife. Add a pinch or two of kosher salt and then using the side of the blade, start mashing it and dragging the knife over the garlic and the salt.<\/p>\n

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And, if you keep working the knife across the garlic you will end up with a garlic paste that will give your dish a lot more garlic flavor than just putting whole or chopped garlic in the dish.<\/p>\n

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      Cook the chopped bacon in a heavy skillet until brown and crisp. Transfer the bacon to a small bowl using slotted spoon. Pour off half of the drippings from skillet. Add shrimp to same skillet and cook until just pink, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer shrimp to a plate using slotted spoon. Add mushrooms to same skillet and saute until tender, about 4 minutes. Add green onions and garlic and saute 3 minutes. Return shrimp and bacon to skillet. Mix in lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper and hot pepper sauce to taste.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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