Tonight, while I was cooking our homegrown corn with homemade masa tamales *, a stroke of genius struck me.
*(considered a well rounded dinner in San Antonio. Corn can be considered a part of any and all food groups.)
It all happened in our kitchen counter compost container. Wait a second, I said to myself. We make homemade tamales at our house* and we have fresh homegrown corn husks, could we not dry our own corn husks?
* (by we, I mean, my father-in-law and by, at our house, I mean, at their house.)
So I took to the google. There were hilariously long ...drawn... out... 7 step lists for how to dry your own corn husks that I can boil down into 1 step for you all. 1.Dry the husks in the sun- will save for up to a year in a dry place. Well, I'll be. Our Christmas tamales just got a little homegrown.
LOL. 7 steps? People complicate things! At my house we eat a Chilean dish that's similar to tamales, called humitas. It's always made with fresh corn & fresh corn husks -- usually big fat ears of a corn that's more like a field corn. With American sweet corn we find that we have to overlap several leaves because they aren't quite wide enough to make a nice packet, and we also have to husk the ears a little more carefully than we normally do, to try to make sure we have plenty of big, intact leaves.
ReplyDeleteyeah i think we will have to be more careful with our husking as well to get any good sized husks. Humitas sounds fantastic.
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