Let's hear it for Hominy!!

[omarick1948]

One of my other favorite things to eat for a side or main dish at camp or home is Hominy. The founder and mother of the famous Grit! Goes way, way back in history, so let's read some ways of preparing it.

A couple of my favorites include: Fried in the drippings of pork chops, Use in soups and stews and Mexican Menudo (Tripe and hominy soup w/ tortillas) ..... Not the 90's boy band.

 

[rustyh]

My wife makes Pozole with chicken or beef fairly often sometimes very spicy I always request extra hominy. Mmm Mmm :grin:

 

[BillinOregon]

Green chili and puerco stew with hominy. Yum.

 

[omarick1948]

Green chili and puerco stew with hominy. Yum.

Bill, What's Puerco stew?? :idunno:

 

[satx78247]

100% TRUE. = YUM is the right word.

yours, satx

 

[BillinOregon]

Pork, friend, pork.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Boiled for about an hour...then drained and served with salted butter. Maybe some pepper.

Hog & Hominy was pretty standard fare...

LD

 

[omarick1948]

Tried hominy in place of potatoes in my cheesey potato soup with crumbled bacon and a good splash of suracha. WOOOW!

My wife runs the other way when I come up with some of my world famous recipes that she calls warlock concoctions.

 

[George]

Whiz a couple of cups of white or yellow hominy, or a mixture of the two, until coarsely chopped. Add about 1/3 cup of shelled sunflower seeds and whiz a little more. Add a couple of tablespoons of butter and mix well. Form into patties and fry in lard until lightly browned. Serve with maple syrup.

Spence

 

[tenngun]

Whiz a couple of cups of white or yellow hominy, or a mixture of the two, until coarsely chopped. Add about 1/3 cup of shelled sunflower seeds and whiz a little more. Add a couple of tablespoons of butter and mix well. Form into patties and fry in lard until lightly browned. Serve with maple syrup.

Spence

ohhhh, that sounds gooood.
I see visions of throwing in a few peppers and grated cheese topping with a salsa
Or garlic and fennel, top with a hard white cheese and a dry red Italian sauce

 

[coloradoclyde]

I'm convinced....life was extremely unbearable before French and Italian cuisine arrived.... :haha:

 

[omarick1948]

I'm convinced....life was extremely unbearable before French and Italian cuisine arrived.... :haha:

You forgot one ... Martha Stewart!
:rotf:

 

[tenngun]

I'm convinced....life was extremely unbearable before French and Italian cuisine arrived.... :haha:

I agree on Italian, and would add German, Mexican, and south east Asian. How every French cuisine is a bad case of the Emperor's new clothes. :barf:

 

[Wes/Tex]

Menudo...first, last and always! :wink: :haha:

 

[rustyh]

I don't care how drunk I got the night before Menudo is a no go just can't do the tripe.

 

[sidelock]

Don't know when F&I food arrived here but English food was in Jamestown in 1607 and still to this day served in colonial style in Williamsburg at the Kings Arms Inn. which my family rebuilt in 1952. I visit there every year for my birthday and like to rub my hands over the square head nails my Grandfather drove and enjoy good cooking.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I'm convinced....life was extremely unbearable before French and Italian cuisine arrived.... :haha:

You forgot one ... Martha Stewart!
:rotf:

No! Martha deserves no accolades IMO....But for Julia Child we should erect a statue.....

 

[Gene L]

One of my other favorite things to eat for a side or main dish at camp or home is Hominy. The founder and mother of the famous Grit! Goes way, way back in history, so let's read some ways of preparing it.

A couple of my favorites include: Fried in the drippings of pork chops, Use in soups and stews and Mexican Menudo (Tripe and hominy soup w/ tortillas) ..... Not the 90's boy band.

Hominy is good, kinda like rice in that it encourages you to add some flavoring...kinda bland by itself.

Hominy is not the mother of grits, however. Except for instant grits, and who would like to eat those? Grits are coarsely ground corn with the husks removed. In the old days, by winnowing. Hominy is made by soaking whole corn kernels in a base material...traditionally, wood ash. This removes the husk and plumps up the corn.

Takes about 20 minutes to cook real grits, with hominy grits takes boiling water and doesn't taste very good.

Sometimes regular grits are referred to as "hominy grits" but they ain't.

Got a friend who makes grits for high-end restaurants. He's a wealth of knowledge on corn.

 

[Wes/Tex]

I don't care how drunk I got the night before Menudo is a no go just can't do the tripe.

What can I say...I just enjoy it and don't save it for 'hair of the dog' situations! Buy the canned if I don't ahve time to make for myself!! :wink: :rotf:

 

[Billnpatti]

Puerco stew is a stew made with pork (Puerco is Spanish for pork). There are many different recipes but here is one:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/puerco-con-chile-verde-recipe.html#!