Not-Just-for-Breakfast Garlic Cheese Grits

Name: Not-Just-for-Breakfast Garlic Cheese Grits
Yield: makes 6 to 8 servings
Ingredients: Cooking spray; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 4 garlic cloves, minced; 2 cups quick-cooking grits; 8 ounces sharp Cheddar cheese, grated (2 cups); 4 large eggs, beaten; 20 dashes Tabasco sauce

December 9, 2011

Some things are like clockwork. For Crystal, her weekly routine during her high school years consisted of getting up and making herself grits and toast for breakfast. Oh, how she loved her grits! Some mornings she had them with sugar and butter; other days she simply salt-and-peppered them. It didn’t really matter how they were prepared. You can imagine, then, how sad she was when she couldn’t find grits while at college in Boston (that and her sweet tea). Determined to get her college friends on track, Crystal had her mother ship her care packages loaded with containers of grits. She served them at every opportunity and explored different ways of preparing them in order to impress her guests. One of the most popular recipes was this delicious take, which adds the right amount of garlic and cheese. Forget cold cereal—mornings should be all about grits.

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