Shrimp and Hominy
Hominy seems, in today’s culinary world, to have given way in large measure to its first cousin, grits. Yet this dish, featuring two standards of Lowcountry fare, was, according to Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking, “served in almost every house in Charleston during shrimp season.”
At Hampton it was primarily a breakfast dish. When accompanied by other offerings such as venison sausage, eggs and cathead biscuits, it made a perfect pre-hunt meal. Today it probably makes more sense as an easily and quickly prepared main dish for dinner (in my lingo that’s the midday meal) or supper.
Ingredients:
- 1 pound raw shrimp
- 1/2 cup butter
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 cups cooked hominy
Shell the shrimp, place in a saucepan in which the butter has been melted, add salt/pepper and stir until the shrimp turn pink. Serve with piping hot hominy.
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In company with his late wife, Ann, Jim Casada wrote a number of cookbooks focusing on game or foods from the wild. One of those, The Complete Venison Cookbook, is available from him or the Sporting Classics Store. Jim’s next book, Fishing for Chickens: A Smokies Food Memoir, is due out from the University of Georgia Press in mid-2022. He is currently taking advance reservations for copies. To reserve a copy or learn more about his many other books, include his recent multi-award winning A Smoky Mountain Boyhood: Memories, Musings, and More, visit his website at www.jimcasadaoutdoors.com or e-mail him at jimcasada@comporium.net.
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