Southern baked cheese grits

Before I left my home in New Orleans for college, my mum handed me a beautiful blue-and-white book filled with old family recipes and dishes we’d cooked together throughout my childhood. I’d like to share with you a recipe from it, one for Southern baked cheese grits. This buttery dish has been a staple at our annual Christmas Eve fête for the last two decades, it’s creamy middle and crispy cheese topping the centrepiece of so much joy and so many memories. Although I know the recipe by heart, every time I make it, I still pull out that old family recipe book.