Cooking Mag Mommy

I wish I could get paid to do this. I'd follow recipes from each month's Gourmet and write reviews. I wouldn't ask for much money, maybe just $25 per recipe plus a stipend for groceries. That would be so cool. I don't know if that job even exists but if it does, I want it. Today I would have made $125 and I would have saved over $150 on groceries, not bad for a day at the office. Last Saturday, I asked Richard if he wanted me to make the Maverick Grits on page 55 for breakfast. He shares my opinion of grits and was less than enthusiastic so I didn't make them then. I made them today for lunch for Eyrleigh and me. I'm actually glad I saved this dish for lunch. I'm not sure I would have liked shrimp at breakfast, or at least smelling them while I peeled and deveined them at 9:00 in the morning. This was a really good lunch, though. It was pretty heavy on the meat so it was a bit greasy in my opinion but the creamy grits tempered the fat. It took almost no tim...