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Hominy

14 years ago

I love yellow hominy, fried in olive oil with onions and green pepper.

Do you like and how do you fix yours?

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kayjones
14 years ago
Yes! Hominy is SO GOOD just boiled in salted water, imho!
juellie1962
14 years ago
What is it? Something like polenta or cornbread??
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Hmm... not sure about nutrition Chisue, but I know that hominy doesn't taste anything like Lutefisk! Anyway, I never ate hominy as a kid, and not for years and years as an adult. Just doesn't look that great, nobody I knew cooked with it, and I had no reason to try it. Then I ran across a white chicken chili recipe that called for hominy and that was an absolutely delicious recipe! I don't know how much the hominy contributed but that chili was good enough that I will definitely be willing to try hominy if I run across it in another recipe, and might even pick up a can or two and try a couple of the ideas mentioned here! Lutefisk, I tried once, and plan to avoid it in the future. Once you got past the smell, the fist couple of small bites weren't too bad, when dipped in melted butter, but after that it got pretty disgusting. I guess, for me, a little went a long, long way and I should have stopped while I was ahead :-)
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Hm... I haven't spent much time in the South, and I didn't see a lot of grits there, so I have no feel for authenticity. Every time I've seen shrimp and grits, both in person and on TV, the grits are white, so I assumed hominy. Then they put yellow cheese in them, so it could be hard to tell if it were corn. So I tried looking at Southern Living's recipe, figuring it could be definitive and I see your point. :) It doesn't say. Which goes back to try both and figure out what you like. :) There's a lot more traffic in Kitchens. You could post an OT there and see if you get some better responses.
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glenda_al
14 years ago
I prefer white. When I cook and serve hominy, I take a breakfast sausage link, cut it up, and add pepper and heat.

My favorite cafeteria knows what I want as soon as I walk in the door and have my spinach, hominy served up as I hit the line and already have my number out to put on table when my snapper fingers are freshly cooked and ready to be brought to the table :o)
oldgardener_2009
14 years ago
We always had white with lots of butter. Good with eggs and fried potatoes.
Marilyn Sue
14 years ago
When I was at home, we always had the white and it was creamed with a bit of sugar and butter. Really good. I still like it today.

Sue
linda_in_iowa
14 years ago
I like to open a can of white hominy and pour it in a bowl and eat it. When I was younger, I always heated it and added butter.
hounds_x_two
14 years ago
Not a hominy fan! Didn't care for it as a child. Have tried it as an adult, and I still prefer to avoid it, no matter how "wonderfully" it is prepared.
carol_in_california
14 years ago
I once had a casserole of hominy (white, I think), cheese sauce, onions and diced green chiles baked until bubbly.
It was delicious.
I also like it fried in bacon grease and then topped with lots of black pepper and hot banana chiles on the side.
patti43
14 years ago
Are you talking about that white stuff that looks like small diced potatoes that is soaked in lye? If you are, count me OUT. I've never seen yellow, though. What my mom fixed was out of a can and maybe she didn't know how to make it palatable. I get the shivers just thinking about it. I think mother just warmed it up and put butter on it.

Those of you who like it, please tell me how you cook it.
glenda_al
14 years ago
Have had this recipe saved for a long time, and it sounds good, but I just enjoy hominy with the sausage link and pepper and heated.

Hominy casserole
2 (15 1/2-ounce) cans yellow or white hominy, drained 1 (4-ounce) can green chilies 1/2 cup grated onion 1 (8-ounce) carton low-fat sour cream 1 1/2 cups grated sharp Cheddar cheese 6 strips bacon, cooked and crumbled (optional) 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 3/4 teaspoon pepper Instructions
1.Preheat oven to 350F.
2.Combine all ingredients, except cheese, and spoon into a lightly greased 8-inch square casserole dish.
3.Sprinkle cheese evenly over the top. Cover with foil and bake 20 minutes.
4.Remove foil and bake an additional 10 minutes, until golden and bubbly.
Tips From Our Test Kitchen: This hearty dish can be made lower in fat by using half the suggested amount of cheese, using non-fat sour cream and eliminating the bacon.
kayjones
14 years ago
This link will tell you all about hominy:

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-hominy.htm

Here is a link that might be useful: What is hominy?
oldgardener_2009
14 years ago
I've never had it from a can, and I'm sure that would nothing like the way my mother made it.

Paula Deen makes it pretty much the same way my mother did.
Amazing Aunt Audrey
14 years ago
I'll eat it if I HAVE to!!!
minnie_tx
14 years ago
I forgot all about it, I leaned to love it when living in S Carolina
I used to take a can of white hominy drain it and then saute it in a pan with a jar of dried beef yum have to put it on my shopping list.
ruthieg__tx
14 years ago
I;ve never eaten it fried with peppers but that sounds so good to me.....I already weight 400 lbs so I'll pass on Glendas casserole but I like it plain, white or yellow, with cornbread and greens......
sheilajoyce_gw
14 years ago
My mom liked it and made it when I was little and I never liked it.
donna_loomis
14 years ago
I love hominy and zucchini with chili powder and butter and a squirt of lime.
juellie1962
14 years ago
Thank you for the link Kay! Doesn't look like something I'd care to try in the near future, but thanks for educating me!

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