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Default Huitlacoche -- a new cooking story

tbs48 wrote:
> On Jul 25, 12:47 pm, Rolly > wrote:
>> I swore I would not make any cooking stories in the heat of the
>> summer, but...fresh huitlacoche is available only as the corn crop
>> matures. So here is what Adriana made from what Nery and I picked on
>> a nearby farm: http://rollybrook.com/ar-huitlacoche.htm

>
> It's been too dry this year here in Virginia for huitlacoche. About 10
> years ago we had a rather wet year and I was able to get loads of
> huitlacoche that was growing on the Silver Queen corn. (I'm not fond
> of white corn, but the fungus seemed to prefer the white corn..)
>
> I made some chiles rellenos stuffrd with shrimp & huitlacoche.. also I
> used it as a filling with chicken in enchiladas verdes..
>
> T.


Oh! We are having a very wet summer here in New England. Could
the farmstands be savvy enough to market huitlacoche?! That would
be too wonderful!

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Jean B.