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[drizzellla]

I have never cooked grits.

BUT my husband and son ate Grits and Shrimp in a restaurant and have talked about how good it was ever since.

SO - I am going to give it a try. But I have a question. I had heard someone mention that you cook grits with cream and water. But the recipe I was going to try (Southern Living) says cook the grits with only water.

Could I use half cream and half water? 

[SurferWife]

@drizzellla 

Oh, honey, YES you may use half cream & half water.  My husband cooks them with half-n-half.  Use stone ground grits.  We prefer the Palmetto brand (we like yellow grits) & order them online.

[Leggett28]

We don't call it grits, we call it Polenta (same thing) only use water and add butter and Parmesan cheese. So good 

[kate2357]

Yes as @SurferWife wrote, you can make grits with half and half, with cream, with water, etc. I saw this quote below from Southern Living. The title was called This Trick Will Make Your Grits So Much Better

Southern Living Test Kitchen Director Robby Melvin prefers to cook grits in a mixture of water and heavy cream. "I use mostly water with 1/4 to 1/2 cup of cream. The water does the trick to tenderize the grits, and the cream adds an obvious richness and creaminess to the finished product," he says. "Cooking grits in all milk or chicken stock imparts too much of those flavors into the grits."

[drizzellla]

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@SurferWife wrote:

@drizzellla 

Oh, honey, YES you may use half cream & half water.  My husband cooks them with half-n-half.  Use stone ground grits.  We prefer the Palmetto brand (we like yellow grits) & order them online.

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I already bought the grits. I live in Pennsylvania so the only grits the grocery store had was by Quaker Oats. I bought "Old Fashioned".  I knew not to buy "Instant". But pickings were slim.

I will look for Palmetto. We are going to Georgia and South Carolina. So I will put grits on my grocery list. 

[drizzellla]

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@Leggett28 wrote:

We don't call it grits, we call it Polenta (same thing) only use water and add butter and Parmesan cheese. So good 

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That is so interesting. Polenta is easy to find. We have bought Polenta several times. My son saw it on cooking shows. So that is why we bought it.

[ninjawife]

@Leggett28 Grits and polenta are not the exact same product.  Polenta tends to be more refined than grits.  

[deepwaterdotter]

I like the Bob's Red Mill corn grits.  I make mine with butter, whole milk, and water. 

[drizzellla]

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@deepwaterdotter wrote:

I like the Bob's Red Mill corn grits.  I make mine with butter, whole milk, and water. 

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The grocery store had Bob's Red Mill but the store only had oatmeal. No Bob's Red Mill Grits. 

The recipe calls for cooking the shrimp in butter and with bacon.

I have no idea what I am doing. So I am following the receipe to a T - except I am adding some cream to the water.

[Sooner]

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@SurferWife wrote:

@drizzellla 

Oh, honey, YES you may use half cream & half water.  My husband cooks them with half-n-half.  Use stone ground grits.  We prefer the Palmetto brand (we like yellow grits) & order them online.

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@SurferWife Check out Marsh Hill Mill in Edisto SC too!