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Corn smut prepared as adelicacy
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Flavors south of the border can also be found in omelets such as the MexiQ (chorizo, goat cheese, pinto beans, Mexican cream, pico de gallo ) and the devil corn omelet (corn fungus known as huitlacoche, cheddar, roasted corn, Mexican cream, pico de gallo).
Tasty Cure For What Ails You Willa Plank 2010
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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.
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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.
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The name huitlacoche (also cuitlacoche) comes from two indigenous words: cuitlatl (excrement) and cochi (sleeping).
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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.
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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.
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One can of huitlacoche is equal to the amount found on four ears of corn, or approximately 1 pound of fresh corn smut.
The cuisine of Puebla - Mexico's wild mushrooms, gifts of the rainy season: Huitlacoche 2006
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A silver-grey spore mass, black on the inside when ripe, huitlacoche is a soil-borne organism that grows on the corn kernels themselves and is known botanically as usilago maydis.
The cuisine of Puebla - Mexico's wild mushrooms, gifts of the rainy season: Huitlacoche 2006
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One can of huitlacoche is equal to the amount found on four ears of corn, or approximately 1 pound of fresh corn smut.
The cuisine of Puebla - Mexico's wild mushrooms, gifts of the rainy season: Huitlacoche 2006
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A silver-grey spore mass, black on the inside when ripe, huitlacoche is a soil-borne organism that grows on the corn kernels themselves and is known botanically as usilago maydis.
The cuisine of Puebla - Mexico's wild mushrooms, gifts of the rainy season: Huitlacoche 2006
avivamagnolia commented on the word huitlacoche
Called Corn smut in the U.S., it's a disease of maize caused by the pathogenic plant fungus Ustilago maydis. U. maydis causes smut disease on maize (Zea mays) and teosinte (Euchlena mexicana). Although it can infect any part of the plant it usually enters the ovaries and replaces the normal kernels of the cobs with large distorted tumors analogous to mushrooms. These tumors, or "galls", are made up of much-enlarged cells of the infected plant, fungal threads, and blue-black spores. The spores give the cob a burned, scorched appearance. The name Ustilago comes from the Latin word ustilare (to burn).
Considered a pest in most of the United States, smut feeds off the corn plant and decreases the yield. Usually smut-infected crops are destroyed. Some farmers may also choose to prepare corn silage out of the smutted corn. However, in Mexico corn smut is called huitlacoche (IPA: wit͡ɬakot͡ɕe, sometimes spelled cuitlacoche), a Nahuatl word reportedly meaning raven's excrement. It is considered a delicacy, even being preserved and sold for a higher price than corn. For culinary use, the galls are harvested while still immature — fully mature galls are dry and almost entirely spore-filled. The immature galls, gathered two to three weeks after an ear of corn is infected, still retain moisture and, when cooked, have a flavor described as mushroom-like, sweet, savory, woody, and earthy. Flavor compounds include sotolon and vanillin, as well as the sugar glucose.
January 18, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word huitlacoche
Never ate it in my 2 years in Mexico - but the images of this smut fascinate me, if not disgust me.
January 26, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word huitlacoche
Qué parte de México?
January 26, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word huitlacoche
ruzuzu: viví en Uruapan, Michoacán; San Luis Potosí, SLP; León, Guanajuato, Morelia, y San Miguel de Allende, Gto; Guadalajara, Jal; Tepic, San Blas, y Puerto Vallarta, Nayarit; todo El Bajío; y un visite a México, D.F. y countless ejidos, granjas, y pueblos en estas partes....
January 26, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word huitlacoche
¡Qué bueno! Voy a visitar a mis abuelitos en el estado de Oaxaca en febrero.
January 26, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word huitlacoche
ruzuzu: Dígales (por favor) a sus abuelitos que hay un "Wórdniquo" en los EE.UU que les da saludos!
January 26, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word huitlacoche
Por supuesto. ¡Muchísimas gracias!
January 26, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word huitlacoche
I should not have clicked on this page.
April 30, 2010
blafferty commented on the word huitlacoche
I was sure this was going to be an ancient aztec car. Or ... an Aztek
June 8, 2011