Posted in Home Cooking, Mexican Food, Side Dish Recipes, Tex-Mex Recipes, easy home cooking
If you’re unfamiliar with Chevy’s Mexican Restaurant, their tomalito is a sweet corn pudding that is served on the side with many of their dishes. Whenever I go there, I try to pick a dish that will be served with this creamy side dish. Tomalito makes a perfect compliment to chili, enchiladas, fajitas, taquitos, etc.
Ingredients
4 cups frozen corn, thawed
1/3 cup butter, softened (2/3 stick)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup masa harina
1/2 cup corn meal
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt.
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 325º.
2. Cream softened butter together with sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the milk and masa and mix well.
3. Puree 2 cups of the corn in a blender or food processor until smooth. Add puree to butter/masa mixture and mix well. Then mix in the remaining ingredients until well combined.
4. Pour the mixture into an ungreased 8×8″ baking pan. Cover with foil and place into a 9×13″ baking pan. Fill the larger pan with hot water until it is 1/3 full. Bake tomalito for 1/2 to 2 hours or until it is firm in the center. Let it sit covered for an additional ten minutes before serving.
Makes 8 servings
Posted in Home Cooking, Summer Recipes, Tex-Mex Recipes, chicken and poultry recipes, cooking light, easy home cooking
Ingredients
1/4 cup olive oil or butter
1 pkg. your favorite pasta
1 pkg. Hombres Sun-Dried Tomato Basil Dip
1-2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (optional)
Directions
1. Cook pasta until tender
2. Saute dry dip mix in olive oil/butter on low heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Cook chicken until the juices run clear (If you’ve opted to add it.).
4. Toss everything together and serve.
Source: Hombresfoods.com
Posted in Home Cooking, Mexican Food, Southwest Cuisine, Tex-Mex Recipes, condiments, salsa
It’s amazing the things I find when searching for a topic to write about. Tonight, I wanted to find a recipe for a sweet/spicy corn salsa that is similar to salsa that I buy at my local Trader Joe’s. I’m still looking. But in the meantime, I found Clay’s Kitchen: Salsa Recipes, which contains 477 different varieties of salsa.
I had no idea that there were that many! The list contains a wide variety of them, two of which are corn salsas. But alas, the ingredients listed in those recipes and the ingredients in the jar don’t match. So, I will keep searching.
