I have a confession

I've grown up and lived in the South all 37 years of my life except for 3 years in Spain. I've never eaten grits....ever. We always had sausage gravy, not grits. What could be better than gravy? Well, I found a recipe that intrigued me on Pioneer Woman's blog a couple of weeks ago. She served creamy cheese grits with chilies to accompany ribeye steaks and they looked so good. I had to make them.

I've been waiting to try these things called "grits" until we had steaks. We didn't have steaks last night. We had oriental chicken thighs but I couldn't wait any longer. I was so desperate to try this recipe that I made mexican style grits with oriental chicken. That's right. Desperate? Or confused?

Either way, they were wonderful! Even with oriental chicken! I called Mom, super excited about my new discovery! Wanna know what she said? She's never had grits either! Not in all her *ahem* a few more than 37 years.

You should try them. Hubby says they aren't like "regular" grits so I can't compare them to others but we'll be having these again...with ribeyes this time!

Creamy Cheese Grits with Chilies