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How To Make Hominy: Nixtamalization

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How To Make Hominy: Nixtamalization
We added whole kernel white corn to the list a month or so ago. Since then a few people have asked about hominy, so, let’s take an adventure into nixtamalization (making hominy).  

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Delicious Creamy Polenta

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Delicious Creamy Polenta

Ok, I am just going to admit that my method for polenta probably sends many dead Italians spinning in their graves, but it works for me, and frees me up from all that stirring. Ingredients: 1 cup Three Sisters Garden Fine Corn Meal (maybe with a tablespoon or two of the coarse thrown in, if you have it on hand) 6 cups liquid (see recipe) 2 Tbs butter salt to taste Optional: white pepper miso Oyster or Crimini Mushrooms Your favorite chopped greens Three Sisters Micro Greens parmesan rind, garlic, leek trimmings shitake stems to make cooking liquid Preheat oven to...

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Really Good Granola

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Really Good Granola
A number of years ago, I was at my booth at Green City Market, and Jill Von Cleeve, who I knew mostly as Bill Rice (the food critic’s) wife and a massive supporter of GCM and its farmers, walked up and handed me a recipe for her Really Good Granola.  And truthfully, it is REALLY GOOD GRANOLA!  

Jill isn’t with us anymore, but she told me to feel free to share, and all these years later, I think this is a good place to do it.

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Baked Pinto Beans

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Baked Pinto Beans
The quintessential bean of Northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. Pintos are a very versatile, creamy textured bean, that lend themselves well to many applications

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Mixed Petit Green Spring Rolls

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Mixed Petit Green Spring Rolls

Our Petite Greens are simply a mix of everything we produce in our greenhouse, year round. The mix evolves somewhat seasonally, with edible flowers joining in as possible in the warmer months of the year. We also add Wood Sorrel to that mix, which are the deep burgundy, clover shaped leaves that have that wonderfully sour flavor.   This mix really is intended to be eaten raw, and like our Micro Greens kind of fits into the "edible jewelry" category.   The Petit Greens are a beautiful, intensely flavored salad mix on their own, but works so very well tossed with a mix of larger salad greens. One thing...

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