Hominy
A traditional Native American food that was one of the first gifts given to the colonists. Hominy is dried, hull-less white or yellow corn kernels, where the hulls are removed by soaking the corn in a lye solution. When ground, the kernels are referred to as grits. Hominy is sold canned, ready to eat, or dried. It's also served as a side dish and is a common ingredient in posole.
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Wow, I didn't even know that!
1I guess you learn somethingk new everyday
Posole is a Christmas time tradition here in New Mexico. It wouldn't be Christmas without it.
2I love grits!
3Grits
4Hey thanks for this, I posted a recipe about a week ago, and a few didn't know what hominy was. This is very helpful.
5Isn't lye used in cleaning products? Is it safe to eat?
6i'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect hominy
yeah . . . really bad joke . . .
7Never had grits...
8Niko, They use Lye to soak olives, to process chocolate and cocoa, to wash insecticide from fruit and to thicken ice cream...I hope it's safe...Pretty soon I might have to go organic
9I might have to try grits. I heard they are pretty good.
10uh my mom use to serve hominy to us and I just never liked it
11I love grits! These are just whole grits I guess, haha.
12i like grits but i thought lye was... unsafe... :s
13very cool! I saw fragiletearz's recipe and had never heard of it!
14Literatured google sodium hydroxide, that's the chemical name for Lye...You'll see it's used a lot more than you would guess.
15Wow, really? that sounds kind of scary now that I think about it!
16good in menudo.
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