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Fish Grits

First of all I want to say is Happy New Year and I am deeply sorry that I have not said it much sooner. I am still grieving my dad and I can’t believe it is almost a year since he is gone. Mr. Riaz and I rung out the new year with Frank Sinatra. My dad was a big Sinatra fan even though he didn’t want to admit it.

I have gotten in to it with several people in twitter also. One chick in Poli’s space named Baldeena thinks she is a total badass in the kitchen. Actually I do not think this young girl can cook her way out of a paper bag if she tried. She even trolled me because I dislike Kanye West. I can’t stand that crackpot and he is very unballanced. As far as I am concerned she can’t make a decent lasagna from scratch.

I deliberately put my lasagna post in Poli’s space so everyone can drool over it. I told her even in the space she does not have my cooking expertise. I have been cooking for a very long time and I told her I have daughters older then she is. She just needs to have manners on which she doesn’t.

Then there is Robbie and his damned clique who falsely accused me of shit I didn’t do. I did not say he had a fucking big mouth. I said it about Trump who I now call Shitty Donny. I even read he was in the polling station trying to sway voters. Obviously this is illeagal.

Now I am off my soapbox we can begin and you will need to make either Blackened Seasoning which is what I used but you can use Creole/ Cajun Seasoning or Homemade Old Bay Seasoning Done My Way. You can make either one of these before you start cooking. You can use 1 bag of frozen fish fillets like flounder which is what I used tonight. You can use others if you want to. Just make sure they are fillets. Also you can use catfish nuggets.

Also you can buy a bag of fresh shrimp and make sure they are peeled and deveined before they are cooked. You can use 1 bag of scallops also. 1 can of fish of any type in brine, tomato sauce or oil is great too. If you are using the one in tomato sauce then you do not have to add a tomato. Please do not drain the canned fish for crying out loud. The taste is in the brine or oil and this is a great flavor enhancer.

There are a couple of options on how to add tomato, onion and garlic. You can either make it like in a stew base in a mini processor with or with out a chili. It can be done another way too like if you are makeing a curry so please let me explain here. You can use either red or green tomato.

If you are going to make a stew base then you add 1 tomato, 3 cloves of garlic smashed and either 1 onion or shallot chopped. Add 1 chili of any type only if you are not adding chili powder or hot sauce.

Add to a medium coldero and add 1/4 cup of either corn, olive, peanut, canola or vegetable oil on high heat. Rinse off the fish fillets in cold water and add 1 capful of lemon juice to remove the fishy oder and to make the fish have more flavor. Fry the fish fillets, scallops or shrimps until they are opaque and remove to the bowl. If using canned fish you can skip this step. Add the onion or shallot and brown them like you are making a curry. Add the garlic and the tomato. Cook until it is mushy or use the stew base and cook until the rawness goes away. Add either 1 pinch of either vegtea seasoning, sea salt, pink salt, kosher salt, seasoned salt, bullion, powder or 1 bullion cube. Add 2 dashes of Maggi or Knorr aroma

Add 1 drop of either hot sauce, 1 pinch of chili powder or 1 chili of any type. You can add African yellow chili powder if it is available and found in African stores. Make sure this is used sparingly because it is so very hot like Carolina Reaper pepper. Add 3 dashes of liquid smoke. Also if you do not want to use Old bay seasoning, blackened seasoning or even Cajun/Creole seasoning then you can use lemon pepper instead. If you do not want to use any of these also you can use mrs dash too as well.

Readd the cooked fish fillets back to the pot or open up a can of canned fish. Stir and add 1 cup of grits, 1 liter or 1 quart of water and cook until the grits are very well cooked and this should at least take about 10 minutes. Add 1 small chunk of cheese of any type cut in to tiny pieces so they will melt all the way throughout the pot of fish grits. Also if you want you can add 3 pats of butter or 3 tbs of butter ghee for additional creamyness.

You can enjoy this with steamed vegetables of choice if you wish and please don’t foret to grab a nice ice cold glass of koolaid or iced tea also.