I don’t think I use a lot of weird ingredients but some of the most basic things . . I can’t seem to get. As I was making my menu plan for this week, the things I couldn’t find locally (and I didn’t go to EVERY store):
- Lily White Self Rising Flour – I want to try Brenda Gantt’s biscuits. Nope .. had to get Pillsbury Self Rising Flour.
- Full Fat Greek Yogurt – Nope . . it’s all low fat or non-fat. I am making my own!
- Full Fat Buttermilk – I love buttermilk and can hardly drink the low fat, watery buttermilk.
- Real Grits – Not quick cooking, not instant. I want real “cook ’em for half an hour” grits. Had to order from Amazon.
That’s just the stuff for this week’s menu. None of that is crazy, unusual stuff. I’m living in the wrong time period. Low fat and quick cooking everything just doesn’t suit my cooking habits. Part of it may just be that we’re too far north. Maybe real grits and White Lily flour is more readily available in the far southern states. I could get it at Kroger in Texas but never checked other stores after Kroger closed there.
Addie’s school had a fundraiser or two or three this past year and one of them was magazine sales. I bought several magazines and one was Southern Living. I used to get Southern Living 40 years ago and loved it but then it got to where it was so thin and so much of it was just ads, that I stopped subscribing. I’ve actually enjoyed the recent issues and found many recipes I want to try. One of them is Grit Cakes and Pork Grillades. I found it online and included the link.
That’s what’s on the menu for Thursday if the grits arrive on Wednesday, which Amazon says they will. We’ll see but . . if you look at that recipe, doesn’t it look amazing?
Sibyl Scott says
Judy I have to order White Lily flour. I haven’t seen it here in Houston. They might carry it at Walmart but I don’t get over there enough and then forget about it when I am there.
Sara Fridley says
I had never heard of White Lily, so it might be a regional brand. It’s kind of interesting to visit grocery stores in other parts of the country and see what regional products not found at home.
JustGail says
I don’t think I ever got the SL magazine, but did get quite a few of the annual recipe books. In a declutter mood, I went through and copied recipes I wanted and noticed that many recipes repeated about every 4-5 years. Not all, but quite a few. They are pretty good though! For some reason, I have a niggling back of the brain memories that if White Lily is not available, you can use a mix of all purpose and cake flour (ratio????)
wow, the auto play video ads are being a pain today 🙁 I know – not your doings, but still GAHHH!
Judy Laquidara says
That might work because White Lily is a very soft flour. I’ll google it and see what I find. Thanks. Sorry about the aggravating ads.
Bridget says
hahaha They sell White Lily in the Kroger in mid-Michigan. Like you I associate it with southern recipes. Full fat buttermilk too…so you are not too far north, you are not far enough north LOL 🙂
Judy Laquidara says
I guess it has nothing to do with north or south then because we never had problems getting full fat buttermilk or real grits in Louisiana and Kentucky.
Pat/SC says
Do the Mennonite farmers at the farmers market not have grits. I am fortunate to live about 2 miles from a wonderful Mennonite grocery. Wonderful eggs and staples but no fresh veggies. We also have 3or 4 local small mills. BUT SC can’t function without our grits! I also love Geechee Boy grits from Edison Island SC. They are heritage corn that he grows locally. I can mail you some grits.. do you prefer white or yellow?
Judy Laquidara says
So far they have not had grits. I’m sending you an email.
Connie Robison says
My grocery store will special order White Lily for me if I will buy the whole case. They can’t always get it though, but you might try that. I save/hoard it for biscuit making. Good Luck
Judy Laquidara says
The only places I shop are Walmart and Aldi so that won’t work but I will find it somewhere eventually.
Cilla says
I bought WLSR flour from Amazon. Pricey but it makes great biscuits. I use the 2 ingredient method that Brenda Gant mentioned……WLSR flour and heavy cream. Keep it sticky, fold 4 times, 475* oven for 12 min. I cannot find full fat buttermilk here in Seacoast NH either. Nor real long cooking grits. Frustrating.
Judy Laquidara says
I ordered the grits from Amazon but I’ll eventually find the flour for less. The prices on Amazon are crazy for the flour – not paying that.
ChrisP says
I have purchased White Lily and Martha White, both southern brands from Walmart on line. I see Walmart is out of WL self-rising as has been usual since the pandemic started. It took me a long while to finally be able to get Gold Medal self-rising but now it seems to be ok again here in California.
Judy Laquidara says
I think Martha White is more coarse than Lily White. Martha is a combo of hard and soft wheat where Lily is only soft wheat.
Along with the pandemic, Brenda Gantt has greatly increased the popularity of White Lily flour.