Fried Mush

[Old Dave]

I love corn meal mush and like to have it quite often and usually always try to have it for my breakfast on New Years day.





Yesterday afternoon, between some adult beverages and the ball games, I made up a pan of mush and put it into the fridge to set up for my breakfast this morning.

I cut off a few slices about 1/2” thick each for my breakfast.







Placed my six pieces of mush in an iron skillet with some butter and cooked them slowly   (about 15 minutes per side) until they were nicely browned, crunchy, and done.





I always put sorghum on this treat but we were out so I used some real maple syrup as it makes a pretty good substitute. Wife fixed me some cheesy eggs with sausage and then I added some hot salsa and then finished off this meal with half bun with butter and jelly. And of course, I also had my breakfast juice!

Anyone else eat fried mush? Or for you city folks, polenta?

[Hub]

Hey OD I've got some real sorghum home grown and home made by a farmer friend of mine.  Man, I wish I could pass you a jar of it right now 


Hub

[Pam Gould]

Dave I love mush..hubby hates it..go figure. I make mine Romanian style..Layer it wth bacon greae and thick layers of brick cheese and let it all melt together with bacon on top. I grew up on it. Easy to make, my family was poor coming over from Romania, but we ate well. Enjoy..,and Happy New Year to you and Jan and Roscoe.   .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.

[ACW3]

I don't recall having mush anytime recently. However, if you are making it, I'm all for trying it.  Everything I have tasted that you made has been a pleasure to eat.

HNE, Dave and Jan.

Art and Maureen

[hikerman]

That looks and sounds like a fine breakfast for New Years Day Dave! I wish I had a plate like yours, right now! Oh could I have some breakfast juice too please?
Dave, my Italian grandma who came here as a ten year old, used to make this very thing. But she called it polenta.We would have usually a hunter-style stew using game in a tomato-mushroom base, served over hot polenta. Extra polenta was always made to put in bread pans, chilled and fried like yours. My mother who was full German made the virtually same thing, but she called it mush.
Although the true Italian version uses I believe flint corn, and the American version uses dent corn, both are interchangeable,  and whatever is available is what is used.

Pam's family's version sounds wonderful!

[Pam Gould]

That looks and sounds like a fine breakfast for New Years Day Dave! I wish I had a plate like yours, right now! Oh could I have some breakfast juice too please?
Dave, my Italian grandma who came here as a ten year old, used to make this very thing. But she called it polenta.We would have usually a hunter-style stew using game in a tomato-mushroom base, served over hot polenta. Extra polenta was always made to put in bread pans, chilled and fried like yours. My mother who was full German made the virtually same thing, but she called it mush.
Although the true Italian version uses I believe flint corn, and the American version uses dent corn, both are interchangeable,  and whatever is available is what is used.

Pam's family's version sounds wonderful!

I just want to say..your version sounds wonderful too.   .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.

[Pappymn]

I would really like to try that. Looks like something I would like

[Roget]

Yes, definitely. Fried mush is a treat.

[Smokerjunky]

There is something I have never seen.  It looks great