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Butter Your Corn With Avocado Skins
This past weekend was replete with backyard barbecues and grilling in the park. While others focused on flambé-ing flag cakes and connecting with family, I remained vigilant for food hacks. Before I knew it, I was eating some great trash. Whether you’re vegan, dairy-sensitive, or just happen to notice someone abandoned an avocado skin with…
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How to Turn Corn Into Hominy (aka Nixtamal)
Even if you haven’t eaten straight up nixtamal (known in the Southern U.S. as “hominy”), you have most likely consumed nixtamalised corn in one form or another. Tortillas, masa dough, proper grits, and even Fritos are all made with corn that has undergone nixtamalisation, a process wherein corn is soaked in an alkaline solution to…
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We’re Drinking Corn Milk Punch Now
2“What is up with you and corn lately?” my boyfriend asked me this morning, quite rudely. It was not yet nine o’clock, and I had just announced I would be making a corn milk punch (for work), thus continuing my 2020 Cornpaign for Cornplete Cornification (in the face of much adversity, I might add).
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Cook Your Grits in a Golden Corn Stock
Portland, Oregon — the city in which I reside — is obsessed with Southern food. I mean, I get it. Southern food is good, but a lot of the restaurateurs who prepare it have a hard time resisting the urge to “elevate” it, which misses the point of the cuisine entirely. (I once found a…