Huge bag of whole shrimp on sale at Costco, so I had to make some shrimp and grits! Whipped up a stock from the shells/heads for the grits, finished with a thin gravy made from bacon fat, white wine, and some more shrimp stock. Burnt the crap out of the toast but we didn’t really need it anyways.
They’re the coarse leftover that doesn’t make it through the sifting process for cornmeal. People in the southern United States make this into flavorless porridge and add lots of other things to it to make it somewhat palatable.
Disclaimer: I have never enjoyed grits, despite my entire family making them constantly and now seeing them in restaurants everywhere as if they’re a culinary delicacy. Someone who likes them would probably describe them differently.
Even though everyone is entitled to their own opinion this one hurts my soul lol. Grits like many carbs are just a base that taste like what you put in it! But it definitely takes a little work to make them delicious.