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Lesley wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes:

On Aug 21, 10:42*am, "Pat" wrote:


Lightly sauté your vegetables, then add corn/hominy on top,

Okay what is hominy? I've heard of "hominy and grits" okay come to
think of it what are "grits"?

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

LOL! Grits are a souther USA 'thang' made of corn, treated with lye
and other stuff to make a fine little granule that you boil in water to
make a food of. It stores well for a very long time and came to use
from the indians (native americans) as a food storage source.

Hominy is related but it's a wet ball of the same stuff vice a long
storage dry product. It does not keep well unless canned. The texture
is completely different between the 2.



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"Lesley" wrote

Okay what is hominy? I've heard of "hominy and grits" okay come to
think of it what are "grits"?

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Hominy is cooked whole corn. Grits are ground up hominy. First the hominy
is dried, then ground. So the corn is sort of pre-cooked, and thus grits
only take 15-20 minutes to cook.



Sometimes hominy is soaked in lye first but yes, it's whole corn kernels.
Grits aren't the same thing as cornmeal which is used in baking or the
dumpling recipe I posted. Grits are sort of a breakfast dish. And there
are white and yellow grits. I like the yellow ones because they have more
of a corn taste. It's hard to explain to someone from another country.

Jill

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Lesley wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes:

On Aug 21, 10:42 am, "Pat" wrote:


Lightly sauté your vegetables, then add corn/hominy on top,

Okay what is hominy? I've heard of "hominy and grits" okay come to
think of it what are "grits"?

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

LOL! Grits are a souther USA 'thang' made of corn, treated with lye
and other stuff to make a fine little granule that you boil in water to
make a food of. It stores well for a very long time and came to use
from the indians (native americans) as a food storage source.

Hominy is related but it's a wet ball of the same stuff vice a long
storage dry product. It does not keep well unless canned. The texture
is completely different between the 2.


Where do you get the description "a wet ball?" when it comes to hominy?
Hominy is posole, commonly used in Mexican or Tex-mex cooking, soups like
menudo. I've bought canned hominy and it certainly wasn't a wet ball of
anything. It was just corn treated with lye.

http://www.foodsubs.com/GrainCorn.html

People often call grits "hominy grits" because hominy is corn and grits are
ground corn. It's hard to describe.

Jill

jmcquown wrote:

Sometimes hominy is soaked in lye first but yes, it's whole corn kernels.
Grits aren't the same thing as cornmeal which is used in baking or the
dumpling recipe I posted. Grits are sort of a breakfast dish. And there
are white and yellow grits. I like the yellow ones because they have more
of a corn taste. It's hard to explain to someone from another country.

Heh, or even to someone from another part of this country!

Joyce - likes grits

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-- Leo Rosten

Lesley wrote:

On Aug 21, 11:31*am, hopitus wrote:


God knows what goes on in UK but in USA what you refer to would be
"corn*starch*".

Correct it's also called cornstarch over here so I am still no wiser
to finding what cornmeal is

If there are any Latino markets in your area, you can find cornmeal there,
no doubt.

Joyce

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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
-- Leo Rosten

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Lesley wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes:

On Aug 21, 10:42 am, "Pat" wrote:


Lightly sauté your vegetables, then add corn/hominy on top,

Okay what is hominy? I've heard of "hominy and grits" okay come
to think of it what are "grits"?

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

LOL! Grits are a souther USA 'thang' made of corn, treated with lye
and other stuff to make a fine little granule that you boil in
water to make a food of. It stores well for a very long time and
came to use from the indians (native americans) as a food storage
source.

Hominy is related but it's a wet ball of the same stuff vice a long
storage dry product. It does not keep well unless canned. The
texture is completely different between the 2.


Where do you get the description "a wet ball?" when it comes to
hominy? Hominy is posole, commonly used in Mexican or Tex-mex
cooking, soups like menudo. I've bought canned hominy and it
certainly wasn't a wet ball of anything. It was just corn treated
with lye.

http://www.foodsubs.com/GrainCorn.html

People often call grits "hominy grits" because hominy is corn and
grits are ground corn. It's hard to describe.

Jill

From life in the south. Thats what it was called in my areas. Ever
seen dried hominy?


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"cshenk" wrote
Ever seen dried hominy?

Yes, it is sold in most Mexican grocery stores for making posolé.

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Lesley wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes:

On Aug 21, 10:42 am, "Pat" wrote:


Lightly sauté your vegetables, then add corn/hominy on top,

Okay what is hominy? I've heard of "hominy and grits" okay come
to think of it what are "grits"?

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

LOL! Grits are a souther USA 'thang' made of corn, treated with lye
and other stuff to make a fine little granule that you boil in
water to make a food of. It stores well for a very long time and
came to use from the indians (native americans) as a food storage
source.

Hominy is related but it's a wet ball of the same stuff vice a long
storage dry product. It does not keep well unless canned. The
texture is completely different between the 2.


Where do you get the description "a wet ball?" when it comes to
hominy? Hominy is posole, commonly used in Mexican or Tex-mex
cooking, soups like menudo. I've bought canned hominy and it
certainly wasn't a wet ball of anything. It was just corn treated
with lye.

http://www.foodsubs.com/GrainCorn.html

People often call grits "hominy grits" because hominy is corn and
grits are ground corn. It's hard to describe.

Jill

From life in the south. Thats what it was called in my areas. Ever
seen dried hominy?

Yep they call it grits ;-) j/k

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"Lesley" wrote in message
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On Aug 21, 5:40 am, "jmcquown" wrote:


In case you missed it:

Chicken Stew with Cornmeal Dumplings

I do something similar but with carrots and onions rather than
zuchinni and squash (both considered a bit "exotic" around here-
although one local pub does a homemade soup using butternut squash
that is to die for!) but what is cornmeal? Is it available in the UK?
I'm a serious dumpling lover but the ones we have are made with suet
so hardly qualify as healthy eating!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs


Cornmeal is ground corn. I have no idea if it's available in the UK.
If not, just make regular flour dumplings The difference is
cornmeal adds a sort of heavier texture.

Yellow polenta should do the trick, i think. Or perhaps try semolina for the
texture, if not the taste.

Yowie

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jmcquown typed:
"Lesley" wrote in message
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On Aug 21, 5:40 am, "jmcquown" wrote:


In case you missed it:

Chicken Stew with Cornmeal Dumplings

I do something similar but with carrots and onions rather than
zuchinni and squash (both considered a bit "exotic" around here-
although one local pub does a homemade soup using butternut squash
that is to die for!) but what is cornmeal? Is it available in the UK?
I'm a serious dumpling lover but the ones we have are made with suet
so hardly qualify as healthy eating!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs


Cornmeal is ground corn. I have no idea if it's available in the UK.
If not, just make regular flour dumplings The difference is
cornmeal adds a sort of heavier texture.

Yellow polenta should do the trick, i think. Or perhaps try semolina for
the texture, if not the taste.

Yowie

Thank you! It's polenta! That might be familiar to Lesley.

Jill