Cooking vs Restaurants

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Soap would be an improvement.  Cilantro overtakes then deadens my taste altogether.  I'm ready for that fad to end.  Speaking of fads, stop trying to sell me quinoa.  This is rice country.

You're apparently one of the special ones.  And I appreciate a variety of grains.  Rice (different kinds), quinoa, couscous, sorghum, barley...etc.

One of my grandmothers made a ham soup loaded with barley. I was never able to replicate it but that's okay as the rest of my family wouldn't eat it anyway. <sigh>

Learning to like grits was a struggle for me. So was making them. Southern husband could eyeball the right amounts of water and grits but it took me a while to learn to make something similar. Funny thing is that I thought he liked his better than mine till just a few months ago when he said mine were better...'course that could be his way out of ever making grits again...he's sneaky like that.