Thread: A Breakfast that Lasts All Day Fishing

The Wife is off at a Quilting Retreat, its approaching NIP tide, big Suzie's moving up to spray eggs, time to fish hard. February is "The Month of the Monsters" for me. When I catch the biggest river Crappie of the year. I posted this before without all the details. 20 minute Grits are the best but on The Rez I have used Instant Grits but more of them. I ask people all the time do they know what Grits are made of, most don't know, some answer Hominy which is correct. I then ask what is Hominy? Lots of head scratching again. I don't know how it came to the US but I think someone south of the Border brought it north. Hominy Corn is Corn soaked in Lime water. The Lime swells the Kernels casting off the undigestable husk allowing it to float to the surface to be skimmed off. Hominy is left. What I find never shared is a molecular transformation happens where the sugars or simple carbohydrates are converted into a complex carbohydrate and body assumable protein. Our Central American friends knew this and grind fresh Hominy into a paste, press it flat into a disk, then cook into a Tortilla. Combined with Beans you get a 48% body assumable protein and a long energy providing, complex carbohydrate with little sugar left to turn into fat.



Anyway, when making this to perfection I use Jacques Pepin's method of Soft Scrambling the eggs. I warm the eggs first then scramble till watery, once watery I add a bit of Half & Half to cream them up further. Melting butter in the pan on a low temp the eggs are poured into the middle and allowed to spread by themselves. Once the edges start setting they are brought to the middle of the pan so the uncooked eggs can move to the edge to set. Repeating this gives a very soft scrambled egg that I do not allow to dry completely.



Warming the defrosted Tamales up (put up from my last post) in the microwave set to 50% power does a good job as long as they are still in the husk.



Making a bed of Grits on the plate comes first. The Tamales are placed next with a little grits in between. The Soft Scrambled Eggs are slid on top of the Tamales, topped with shredded Cheese, and finally Street Sauce. I microwave this for 30 seconds which finishes the eggs, melts the cheese, and warms the Street Sauce which came from the fridge.



I hope you enjoy and try this if this Southwest meets Southern Breakfast is appealing.

Pfaltzgraff - Rising Sun. I don't know if any are still available. I owned our log house when I married and my new in-laws gave us a covered dish in the pattern for a wedding gift. Rustic to fit in. We liked it so got our own set. I was 31, never married, so you can imaging what I had for dishes before the big day. Eating I take very serious, what my meal is resting on while chowing down, not so much.