What's Cookin? jagsonburgh edition

not sure what food jacksonville is known for so the theme thing may be out the window this week. it's just a place you drive thru on the way to florida. right? shrimp and grits? well i like grits and i like shrimp but like fish on pizza, it shouldn't go together in the same meal. i'm thinking hot sausage and peppers. nacho
s worked last time so hey why not? what you got?

 

Had good alligator there many moons ago.

Don't feel like sitting in a bar so I'll follow on the radio and this board while eating tacos.

 

well yes and no. i have had shrimp with a side of grits with cheese at a restaurant on cocoa beach in fla. but not in the same bowl. florida fish company it's called. good place if you are ever there. grits and cheese is kind of a staple at a lot of places in fla..

 

I find grits tasteless but to be fair I'm a northerner (although technically below the Mason/Dixon line) and had only a few times. Grits are not on many menu's up North.

 

Tipton : No self-respectin' Southerner uses instant grits. I take pride in my grits. Vinny Gambini : So, Mr. Tipton, how could it take you five minutes to cook your grits, when it takes the entire grit-eating world twenty minutes?

When i make grits even with shrimp i tend to cook and add crumbled sausage, add cheese, green onion, hot pepper with 3 or 4 over easy eggs on top in a bowl. a big bowl. Naptime!!!!

Not sure for the game. Leaning towards a savory bread pudding.
Chorizo or mutton

 

grits be good. i was raised on eating grits and i am from ohio. there used to be more breakfast places that carried them but for some reason they quit.

i went to eat n park one morning awhile back and they used to have grits on their breakfast bar, but during covid they quit having it. i ordered breakfast off the menu and asked the waitress if they still had grits because it wasn't on the menu anymore. she said i'll ask. she came back and said the kitchen never heard of them. next thing i know the manager came out with a bowl of them and said she heard the conversation and made me a bowl herself. she said we have them but those kids (cooking and waitressing) didn't even know what they were.

 

Homemade pizza....until We don't win. So hopefully I'll be making it again, and again, and again, and so on.

 

I went to a little hotel in Macon GA and had fantastic shrimp and grits

Next time I was in Macon the restaurant was closed for good

I tried making it myself once and didn’t like it but this is the beginning of two weeks of shrimp and I bought the grits

And on a side note I love kung Pao chicken I even grow kung Pao peppers

 

I went to two different restaurants in Charleston known for their shrimp and grits one was excellent one not so much

There apparently is a lot of room for variation

 

My daughter is home from college this weekend, and her favorite restaurant is Bibibop, so she asked if we could pick that up for lunch, so for us, Bibibop it is this week. I do like their spicy chicken bowls with purple rice, I have to admit.

 

Today is day one of two weeks of Bubba Gump Shrimp Company

Tonight it was shrimp with Cajun seasoning clam chowder and coleslaw

Brunch tomorrow is shrimp Benedict and Dom Perignon (DP is for our anniversary)

Half time is Shrimp and Chorizo in garlic sauce with crusty bread

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sunny-anderson/shrimp-and-chorizo-in-garlic-sauce-recipe-2119635

 

Mexican chorizo or Spanish chorizo

I only know one place that makes Mexican chorizo and fortunately they do it really well

 

Seafood is amazing in Jacksonville. I loved my time on Mayport Road and trips to Atlantic Beach.

As for what I'm cooking, probably fried potatoes and eggs

 

looks like he is expecting left overs.

 

He is a she and she constantly thinks she is starving

One thing she is not getting is Cajun spiced shrimp or chorizo

That would not come out well in the end

So to speak

 

Going to be eating at the game tomorrow in the rain

 

Pretty much. Italian sausage, pepperoni, onions, green, and black olives. Although I think I put sweet peppers on the Ravens one, and ran out of them so didn't on the Rams one.

 

Happy Anniversary

 

I didn't know this. I thought chorizo was chorizo.

 

ahh, my bad she has that same look i see when i'm eating anything, except mine is a darker brown. enjoy your shrimp fest. happy anniversary. feed that poor girl. she has that i like shrimp too look.

 

Thanks

It’s actually in June but we saved the champagne for the beach

 

Mexican chorizo is like raw ground sausage that can be bought bulk like breakfast sausage or in links like hot sausage

Spanish chorizo is dried and cured like a pepperoni

Both have Mexican spices like red Chile oregano and vinegar