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From Celebrating Appalachia---I Do Miss This!

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Cheese Grits Casserole

This is another one of those recipes that likely works better with that old "government cheese" or with what you will find in a supermarket that sells to the lace-up-your-boots-in-the-dark-and-get-off-to-work crowd. I like it and even I can make it without much trouble.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Cook one cup of grits as they tell you to on the box. Add one-half of a cup of butter or margarine and a roll or block (6 ounces) of that processed cheese with garlic or pepper in, and stir 'til everything is well melted.

Spoon a small bit of the hot grits mix into 2 beaten eggs and stir. Pour that mix into the grits and blend everything in.

Lightly grease a one-and-one-half quart casserole dish, pour your mix into that and bake for about one hour. 

The easy and clean version of this recipe can be found in one of the best cookbooks I know---Sidney Saylor Fine's More Than Moonshine (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983). I have not seen the later edition, but I'm sure that it's perfect.  

Red Eye Gravy recipe & "How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?"

A coal town in West Virginia. This photo probably came from the Forgotten Coalfields of Appalachia Facebook page. 

You know, I woke this morning thinking of red eye gravy but I can't have that now. Here is how you make it:

Fry a thick slice of country ham or a thick slice of salt pork or a thick slice from a ham hock. Drain off that excess fat, add a little water to your drippings, and drop in a shot or so of strong black coffee. Boil it up.

You can put this over eggs or biscuits or grits and have a good breakfast. 

 

A Simple Casserole That Even I Can Make

 

I don't know where this photo of a West Virginia church picnic came from, but I do like it.

This is a simple casserole that even I can manage to make in a hurry. When I last made this I realized that it works best to use what we used to call "commodity cheese," or the cheese that the government used to provide. But---no matter---you can find something like that in most grocery stores or supermarkets that sell to working-folks people.

You will need a two-quart casserole dish with a top that you can put in an oven. Just measure the ingredients that you have with that dish.

Put in a couple of cans of hominy, a good bit of sour cream to your tastes and not so much that it will get gooey---maybe one small container, a small can of green chilis and some Monterrey Jack cheese or something like the old commodity cheese, and put it in the lightly-greased casserole dish. Mix it up.

Sprinkle on some Parmesan cheese and maybe some good pepper.

Bake it at 350 degrees for about one hour.

Enjoy it with your fully-vaccinated friends and family or drop it by someone's house who you need to make some connection with. 

 

Radical Christianity: Christian Leftism and the Church

 "Let this radicalize you and not lead you into despair."

Coal Miner Cake

My lunch bucket could use a piece of cake!

My goodness, here we are on Tuesday in a new blog and in a new month and I have not yet begun to talk about food!

I don't know where this recipe comes from, and I have not tried it yet, but it sounds and looks delicious. 

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