Very few of you reading this probably know that I was actually born in Louisville, KY and not CA. I only lived there till I was almost 1, so I can't be considered a Kentucky-girl. I had never actually gone back to KY until summer 2006, when we made a clear effort to drive to my birthplace during a road trip. It's funny because sometimes I wonder if my southern birthplace (why is KY a southern state when it's not really southern on a map?) is why I love southern-style food. One of my favorites is grits, something that I think is under appreciated in this country (grits are just like Italian polenta) and thought of as "poor" southern people food. For those of you who don't know, grits are just coarsely ground corn. They are pretty plain and boring by themselves, but are delicious when things are added to them (cheese, shrimp, fried eggs, etc. etc).
Since I was up at such an early hour, I decided to try out this recipe for today's breakfast. I added a fried egg on top (a secret from Steve. The yolk breaks over the grits and adds that much more goodness to it!). It looks like white grits where used in her picture, while mine were yellow. So my picture looks like I have a fried egg on top of scrambled eggs....haha.
P.S. That's my Paris metro mug in the background. I heart Paris!
