Cheese Grits with Autostraddle
Guess what happened this morning? Katina and I walked into our fav internet cafe, Perch, to work on Vp and we bumped into two cute dyke-lets that help run autostraddle. So we sat at the bar ate cheese grits and coffee and talked about the future of lesbianism (from a millennial gen perspective).
Let me introduce you to Kelsey Lisette, their video contributor as well as "elf-scot," and Taylor, official auto-all-star and tech editor.
What is the most important cultural phenom in our community today?
Kelsey: Lady Gaga...
I could have predicted that answer... Ok, so why?
Taylor: I'm over Lady Gaga.
Fine. Let's move on. What's new with autostraddle?
Kelsey: A handful of us were going to move to the Bay Area... we just need a change and need to get out of New York.
Taylor: I just quit my job. I want to tune in, drop out, and drop acid.
Do people drop acid anymore? What kinds of drugs do you kids use these days?
Taylor: Designer drugs
Kelsey: I like home brews.
Taylor: ... or blends.
Who is your biggest queer celeb heart throb?
Taylor: Michelle Tea, because I want to channel early 90's San Fransisco.
Kelsey: Miranda July, biggest fucking heart throb. she makes everything about me explode... inside.
So you guys like 'em older?
Taylor: Hello Mrs Robinson... Can you take me to Cougar Town?
Kelsey: To me everyone is a cougar, cuz I'm just a tiny cub. I'm like a baby sea otter. We love sea otters at autostraddle.
Taylor: I like river otters, they look like John Waters...
What do you think about monogamy, are you kids having a lot of open relationships?
Taylor: That's the only kind we have.
Kelsey: I want to spread rainbow seeds... We need to make more queer people.
What does that mean?
Taylor: We are here and we're queer.
What are your feelings about being on the cutting edge of lesbian media?
Taylor: It makes me feel poor and wish I still had health insurance.
Kelsey: I wish I could go back to being a cheerleader in High School
What are you guys doing for Pride?
Taylor: I'm going to visit my Grandma in Kansas.
Kelsely: I'm probably working. I work as PA (aka "little bitch") for the next season of a highly watched reality series that I can't talk about, which will be airing in the next few months.
Taylor: But we wish we were going to our own autostraddle Pride Party which you guys are all invited to.
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i like autostraddle but the
i like autostraddle but the text-size/type and the flashiness makes it unreadable for me.
If the Autostraddle dykelets
If the Autostraddle dykelets think Grace is a cougar, then I'd be a saber toothed tiger (ie; a fossil).
Robin!
We are def fossils! Random - I love Fossil watches! And aviator sunglasses
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Boring!
Watching fossils is boring. They never seem to do anything. Except the trilobites.
Lmao!!!!!!
I just got an image of the Flinstones!!!
Random thoughts!!!!
Lake
I love me some........
Cougar!!!!!!!!!
Lake
Puma....
to you, Lakey!
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That tone is soooooo....
HOT!!!!!
Made me have naughty thoughts!!!
Lake
uh-oh...I'm having an identity crisis ;p
this is very confusing for me-- your dyklet/cougar conversation is making me realize I am hopelessly adrift in the world of generational identity. High school is a pretty distant memory, but I'm definitely nowhere near cougar town, either...where can I point my mojo? (Side note-- hello, dyklets! don't move out to the bay, i've been there and it's way better here in BK. really!!)
We're all born naked. The rest is drag.
--RuPaul (appropriating Judith Butler for the masses...)
Yo, Grace!
I'm pretty sure you just got hit on! Did you notice and or take advantage! And, hell yes, cougars (pumas) are the ones to make your world rock.....been saying that for months!
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Heart pounding action
That's why the second pic is in a blur, Tex. Her heart was poundin' ponderin' it. Have you noticed that Grace seems to have that blur thing going on a lot lately? First her little thrill ride icon, and now this.
I've noticed too....
she's def got the 'blur' going on these days!
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Do cheese grits taste any
Do cheese grits taste any less like wallpaper paste than plain grits?
I feel like someone's feeding you crappy grits!
Grits are so yummy and cheese grits are even better!! I'm a bit of a grit faux pas because I sort of treat 'em like cream of wheat and put sugar and butter on them sometimes-something that makes my North Carolina mama and Texan girlfriend cringe but I've had lots of yummy savory grits.
Erika has spoken.
Now, go read my blog
www.blackgayjewish.com
Cream of Wheat Willies!
Just thinking of Cream of Wheat gives me the willies. I loved it until my dad made it with so much salt it was like getting a mouth full of Atlantic sand.
It's the texture more than
It's the texture more than the flavour - it makes me gag a bit..... !!
I've actually had a reaction like that !
I had really bad grits once and they made me gag, too! I get where you're coming from
Erika has spoken.
Now, go read my blog
www.blackgayjewish.com
grits = love
But do grits = polenta?
This is a bit off-topic, but aren't grits basically the same thing as polenta? I remember eating polenta for the first time in an upscale restaurant, and it was tasty, but I left kind of amazed at paying so much for what was basically a plate of the plainest grits.
And yeah, everyone is entitled to their own tastes, but some people who hate grits have never had them cooked in a good way...in my experience, when it comes to grits home cooking is always better. You have to love the grits, and there isn't usually time for that in a restaurant setting.
Grits and Polenta are basically the same thing
I love them both, actually. Grits tend to be a bit more gritty, though, when improperly cooked and I've never really encountered a gritty polenta. I'm with you though, I try not to order either at a restaurant because they're very rarely done well. There is a place on the outskirts of Williamsburg that has a decent plate of Sausage and Gravy with Grits, though.
Erika has spoken.
Now, go read my blog
www.blackgayjewish.com
Mmm...gravy....
Sounds like a good place. It figures there would be at least one in NYC that would do things right. There are too many transplanted southerners in the city for it to be otherwise! Wish they had some restaurants serving grits, or polenta for that matter, around here. But they do have good fries. Mmm...carbs....
They are worse, Steph.
They are worse, Steph. Someone took perfectly good cheese and ruined it with one of the 5 foulest tastes in the world. The other 4 are (in no particular order):
- hominy (progenitor o'grits and ruiner of menudo)
- chewing tobacco
- Fels Naptha Soap (Thanks, mom. It totally worked on cleaning up my fucking language)
- my own blood (Allen Iverson is my hero)
"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." ~ Pollyanna
I don't know what hominy
I don't know what hominy is?!
Please may I add brussel sprouts and fennel to your list?
Fennel is awesome with Lemon
The owner of the restaurant I'm currently working in (for another week, anyway) makes an INCREDIBLE fennel and lemon soup. If you decide to jump the pond and come to Paris to visit, let me know. I'll direct toward someone who might be able to change your mind about fennel.
Well, I only have to jump the
Well, I only have to jump the Channel!!
Okay, I'll keep an open mind on fennel.......
Oh, that's right
I forgot that people refer to the ocean as the pond. I was talking about the Channel.
My recipe is better than my
My recipe is better than my sister's! (Granted, I stole "my" recipe from Bon Appetit.) For reals, I DARE people to not like brussels any more after trying this...
Chang-Style Brussels Sprouts
Serves 4
Ingredients:
Excuse me gorgeous, I FEEL A
Excuse me gorgeous, I FEEL A RECIPE BLOG COMING ON
Also, I feel a Brussels Sprouts showdown. Mine are in a browned butter white wine reduction. They rule the school.
www.dianacage.com
@dianacage
Yummmmm
Cage, if I lived out there you and I would SO have our own cooking show.
I'm getting into tarot again. We should do a divination blog, too.
Well, I'll give it a go but
Well, I'll give it a go but it will be nothing short of a miracle if you can reverse 40 years of me being almost phobic about brussels!
Thanks for taking the time to write the recipe!
We had this brussel sprouts
We had this brussel sprouts conversation last fall. I'm tellin' ya, ask Julia for her sis' recipe for the fresh, broiled ones. It'll change your mind. Cause I seriously thought they were the most disgusting things on earth prior to last Thanksgiving.
As to hominy, the cafeteria at my office used to have this Mexican soup, who's name is escaping me right now, that had hominy in it and it was darn good. We have a new vendor at the cafe and they don't have the soup anymore. Too bad.
I learn about all sorts of
I learn about all sorts of culinary delights on Vp!!
I really want a Rolex! One day.......
I think Rolex' are gaudy. I'm
I think Rolex' are gaudy. I'm not a fan. I like simple, with clean lines. My Skagen is all monochromatic silver & gray with no numbers & my Citizen has a black band & face with a silver case, hands and roman numerals. It's also my only rectangular faced watch. Very classic & classy. My mother has a Wittnauer that's quite lovely, even though it's gold & I prefer silver. If anything, I might drool over a Citizen dive watch.
Yeah, l know that a lot of
Yeah, l know that a lot of people are not fans of the Rolex but I kind of like the gaudy factor!
Tagheuer........
will be my next watch!!
http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=439716&CategoryID=24084
Lake
menudo
The soup is menudo and hominy ruins it for me. (I've loved brussel sprouts since I was a kid.)
"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will." ~ Pollyanna
Nope. Not menudo. I just
Nope. Not menudo. I just checked Tex' link and found the name of the soup- Posole. They had some damn good posole in our cafe from the previous vendor (we have Aramark now and God forbid we should have anything remotely ethnic).
Hominy....
http://www.yumsugar.com/Hominy-708237
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Fank u! (I love Fossil
Fank u!
(I love Fossil watches too. I am a bit of a watch freak actually!)
I'm more than a bit of a
I'm more than a bit of a watch freak. I'm currently wearing my Skagen daily but my favorite is my solar powered Citizen.
Oh, yes!
I am most definitely a Fossil watch whore!
Last purchase....a woman always is in need of a water proof.....
http://www.fossil.com/en_US/shop/men/watches/sport_watches/analog_black_dial_watch-am4259p.html?departmentCategoryId=30001&N=0&Va=75&Ns=p_ms0%7C0%7C%7Cp_weight%7C0&rec=46&pn=c&imagePath=AM4259
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Back on task - food topic!
I do beg to differ - I really can cook up scrumptous cheese grits! I also have a luscious recipe for hominy gravy over pork chops! How's it going with you these days, Rusty? Do hope the world is well for you and yours!
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Oh no!
Don't be knocking the grits! Come on over here, sweet thing, and I'll cook you up some grits that will make you holler for more!
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I am sure if anyone can make
I am sure if anyone can make me holler for more, it's you my darling!
Oooo!
Better not let your lady love read that! Unless you're up for a nice paddling.
I don't know what you
I don't know what you mean.......
Me either!
We are both so innocent!
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Tae!
Don't be spoilin' with technicalities!
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Exactly! (but seriously, you
Exactly!
(but seriously, you really are gonna get me in big trouble one of these days.......
......
yes I am.......
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* paddle
Maybe we should send them KL's star paddle.