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http://www.ozarkrevenge.com/2016/11/shrimp-and-grits.html

Lots of flavor in this dish. Remember to keep the polenta and gravy loose.

[Quillback]

On ‎11‎/‎13‎/‎2016 at 8:31 PM, ness said:

From a few days back--corn meal mush. Anybody ever have this? I just don't hear about it anymore, but my dad loved it and I do too. Cornmeal, water, salt, cook it and keep stirring. Add a little butter and some real maple syrup. 

One of my great granddads ate corn meal mush for breakfast every day.  I'm told he mixed it with milk.  He lived into his 90's.  I think what he did was take cornbread, pour milk on it, and made his mush that way. 

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My grandpa was from Italy and he ate a polenta type mush every morning too.  He didn't have any teeth so it worked well for him.  He would sneak chianti  into it if grandma wasn't watching.  But if she caught him she would smack him on the back of the head.  Me and my brothers would crack up laughing and he would try and swat us with his cane if we got close enough. 

[ness]

26 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

My grandpa was from Italy and he ate a polenta type mush every morning too.  He didn't have any teeth so it worked well for him.  He would sneak chianti  into it if grandma wasn't watching.  But if she caught him she would smack him on the back of the head.  Me and my brothers would crack up laughing and he would try and swat us with his cane if we got close enough. 

Love that story! But I sure don't see wine, especially in the AM.

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He was a coal miner in Illinois and the local German community hated the Italians for taking their jobs.  The company went to Italy and recruited workers but didn't tell them what they were in for from the current workers they would displace.  KKK raided my families house a couple times back then.  There is a book called Bloody Williamson County that details all of the violence.  My grandpa was missing a few fingers as well as no teeth.  He was responsible for dropping the link pin in between coal cars.  If he wasn't fast enough it would chop his finger off.  Needless to say he wasn't fast enough about 4 times I think.  By the time he was old and literally decrepit he would sneak wine into every thing he could. 

But if grandma caught him she would smack him around and yell at him in Italian.

[ness]

12 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

He was a coal miner in Illinois and the local German community hated the Italians for taking their jobs.  The company went to Italy and recruited workers but didn't tell them what they were in for from the current workers they would displace.  KKK raided my families house a couple times back then.  There is a book called Bloody Williamson County that details all of the violence.  My grandpa was missing a few fingers as well as no teeth.  He was responsible for dropping the link pin in between coal cars.  If he wasn't fast enough it would chop his finger off.  Needless to say he wasn't fast enough about 4 times I think.  By the time he was old and literally decrepit he would sneak wine into every thing he could. 

But if grandma caught him she would smack him around and yell at him in Italian.

Boy, those were the good old days

 

[Quillback]

Yep, I think one of the reasons my great grand pappy ate mush every morning was because he had no teeth.  And they could not afford anything else.  My MO grandma said all she ever had to eat as a child was corn bread and beans. 

[ness]

Lunch today

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38 minutes ago, ness said:

Boy, those were the good old days

He led a hard life and it showed. 

[Johnsfolly]

2 hours ago, ness said:

Lunch today

Ness

It's amazing that you can get this chicken and mushrooms dish plated the same way for the three out of the last four meals that you have shared on this thread. Must have been a fantastic recipe and a great memory on your part for the photo op.