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Recipes => Recipes => Veggies, Casseroles, & Other Side Dishes => Topic started by: Smokin Don on February 05, 2013, 11:35:23 AM

Title: Grit Pie with Gorgonzola
Post by: Smokin Don on February 05, 2013, 11:35:23 AM: Feb 05 2013

I have been painting the last two days and not cooking; I think I was starting to have withdrawal! I found this recipe for polenta pie at Saveur; and just happened to have some gorgonzola that needed used.

For my adaption I used some Palmetto Farms yellow stone ground grits. They used some asiago cheese added to the grits. I didn’t have any so I used half cheddar and half parmesan.

The recipe was 1 ½ cups grits, 4 cups water, and a Tbs. of butter. Bring the water to a boil and stir in the grits, keep stirring and reduce the heat as needed until it has thickened. Add the butter and cook a few minutes; add ½ cup of cheese and stir until mixed in well. Pour into an oiled cast iron skillet. Top with the crumbled gorgonzola and bake in a preheated 350 deg. oven for 25 minutes.

You can serve it hot out of the skillet if you want it gooey or let cool and slice. It can be served at room temp. or heated. Grits to me just go best with breakfast I had a slice of it with some of Sandman’s buckboard bacon, an egg and rye toast. I thought the smoky bacon and gorgonzola flavors really went well together.

If you serve this with an Italian meal it would be a polenta pie, with any other it would be grit or cornmeal pie! I think this would be dynamite served with some BBQ shrimp.

Grits and cheese
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Traeger%20Food%202013/_2058268_zpsb96a552b.jpg)

Ready for the oven
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Traeger%20Food%202013/_2058269_zps2e8b5100.jpg)

Baked and cooling
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Traeger%20Food%202013/_2058272_zps843bd121.jpg)

My brunch
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Traeger%20Food%202013/_2058276_zps014b0957.jpg)

Smokin Don
Title: Re: Grit Pie with Gorgonzola
Post by: squirtthecat on February 05, 2013, 11:52:23 AM: Gorgonzola and Grits, oh my!
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Post by: Tinnmel on February 05, 2013, 12:24:21 PM: That plate looks might tasty.
Title: Re: Grit Pie with Gorgonzola
Post by: Hub on February 05, 2013, 12:53:09 PM: Wow, does that look good! Isn't it funny that some folks will turn up their nose at the mention of grits but will rave about polenta :o Go figure.

A friend of mine has a North Carolina vanity plate on his car: UMMMGRITS

Keep up the good cookin', Don.

Hub
Title: Re: Grit Pie with Gorgonzola
Post by: drholly on February 05, 2013, 01:14:27 PM: Don, That looks wonderful! Gonna have to try that.
Hub, You are right - in fact that happens right here in my family. When I say I'm making grits for breakfast - the house clears. ??? When I make polenta for dinnner, they rave... ::). Maybe we'll have to have polenta for breakfast one of these days... ;).

Cheers,

David
Title: Re: Grit Pie with Gorgonzola
Post by: TentHunteR on March 02, 2013, 12:20:50 PM: A great match up. I like grits and Gorgonzola is my favorite blue cheese. YUM!
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Post by: Pappymn on March 02, 2013, 12:25:45 PM: How did I miss this fine post. Great breakfast Don!
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Post by: Keymaster on March 02, 2013, 12:37:55 PM: Yah, that grit pie looks fantastic!! The whole brunch looks super :)
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Post by: RickB on March 02, 2013, 01:05:01 PM: Looks fantastic! Nice job.
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Post by: mikecorn.1 on March 02, 2013, 01:33:02 PM: I'll take a plate with everything bit the blue cheese. ;)

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Title: Re: Grit Pie with Gorgonzola
Post by: TwoPockets on March 02, 2013, 05:02:46 PM: That might make my Southern Granny turn over in her grave, but it looks good to me.
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Post by: muebe on March 02, 2013, 06:03:24 PM: Great looking plate Don!
Title: Grit Pie with Gorgonzola
Post by: Chili Head on March 02, 2013, 06:48:46 PM: Wow that looks outrageously good!
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Post by: Old Hickory on March 02, 2013, 07:35:43 PM: I like it, grits are great.
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Post by: teesquare on March 02, 2013, 08:08:47 PM: WHOA Momma!!!! -( ala Johnny Bravo)

A poor boys grits are a rich man's polenta.... ;) :D That looks wonderful Don.
Title: Re: Grit Pie with Gorgonzola
Post by: deestafford on March 02, 2013, 08:16:31 PM: I love that crispy edge on the eggs...just like the way my mother used to cook. Dee
Title: Re: Grit Pie with Gorgonzola
Post by: fishingbouchman on March 02, 2013, 09:41:29 PM: Quote from: Tinnmel on February 05, 2013, 12:24:21 PM
That plate looks might tasty.

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