Pickling Lime is Calcium Hydroxide. It’s also called “food-grade lime”, because in making the Calcium Hydroxide the processors make sure that the process remains pure and doesn’t introduce anything untoward (e.g. it’s not done in rusty old bins.) Pickling Lime helps to improve the firmness of pickles by introducing calcium that reinforces the pectin in…
Corn
Deep Fried Corn on the Cob
If your eyes popped at the thought of this, imagine your friends. This dish is served at some bbq places and state fairs in the American south.
Tuna and Anchovy Pasta Recipe
A full-flavoured pasta dish that can be served warm, or chilled as a pasta salad.
Roasted Corn with Chile Butter Recipe
You make this recipe on a barbeque.
Sweetcorn and Onion Polenta Recipe
A really great, tasty side dish when you just can’t face potato, rice or pasta again.
Corn Shoots
Corn Shoots are kernels of corn allowed to start growing, up to a few inches tall. Essentially, they are corn sprouts allowed to grow a bit longer — about three weeks. They have yellowish-green leaves with bluish edges, and are somewhat yellow at the heart, when grown in light. When grown in the dark, they…
Corn Sprouts
Corn Sprouts are sprouts grown from corn kernels. Different types of corn kernels can be used, as they will all sprout. The kernels, though, and particularly Sweet Corn kernels, can be very expensive to buy. If you are growing your own Corn Sprouts, make sure you are using corn seed that hasn’t been treated with…
Cream Corn Pancakes Recipe
These are very tasty fritters.
Baked Cream Corn Recipe
This is an easy, yummy side dish: ends up sort of like cheezy scrambled egg with corn in it.
Lime (Chemical)
The chemical lime in the form of Calcium Hydroxide (aka Edible Lime, Hydrated Lime, CaH2O2) is used in some food processing, and has been for millennia.Lime (in the form of Calcium Hydroxide) is used in South America in processing corn. Corn is soaked in water to which Calcium Hydroxide has been added. The corn swells,…
Corn Smut
Corn Smut is a fungus that grows on corn kernels. It causes them to swell into grey, sometimes black, galls up to a few inches (5 to 7.5 cm) wide. Sweetcorn is more prone to Corn Smut than are cattle corns such as Dent Corn. The Corn Smut has to be harvested while the galls…
Creamed Corn
Creamed Corn © Denzil Green Creamed Corn is something you love or you hate. Canned varieties don’t have any cream in them — about half the fresh corn kernels are “creamed” or puréed, and the other half are left whole. Recipes to make your own will have you put the corn kernels in an actual…
Savoury Cornmeal Muffins Recipe
While these are kinda more Tex-Mex than Mexican, we’re listing them as Mexican as they are great with Mexican food. This is a great chance to use some buttermilk in a recipe, as it calls for enough to make it worth buying.
Corn Salsa Recipe
The flavours of the roasted corn are fantastic.
Corn & Onion Quiche Recipe
A very tasty, inexpensive quiche.
Vegetable Jambalaya Recipe
A really tasty rice dish.
Corn Husks
Corn Husks © Denzil Green Corn Husks are the outside green leaves on a cob of corn, that we usually peel off and discard. You can use them, fresh or dried, as packages to wrap food in for cooking — usually steaming. They give the food a wonderful corn flavour. Normally the husks are dried…
Corn Kernels
Corn Kernels © Denzil Green The old spelling of corn was Korn, from the Germanic; Kernel is a diminutive form, to mean a small grain. Niblets is a trademarked name that Green Giant uses to describe the fresh corn kernels it sells in North America and in the UK. Many North Americans use it colloquially…
Black Bean & Corn Salad Recipe
This salad looks dramatic, tastes amazing, and is an ideal make-ahead recipe. The combination of the beans and corn also provides a complete protein.
Corn
Corn on the cob © Denzil Green Corn is a member of the grass family. It is a food that we sometimes use as a grain, and sometimes as a vegetable. Corn that has blue, brown, orange, purple or red kernels is treated as a grain. Sweetcorn This is the type of corn that we…
Corn & Red Onion Salsa Recipe
This is one of those free-flowing recipes; for your convenience, a few arbitrary measurements are attached, but really it’s up to how much you want to make and your tastes.
Corn Scrambled Eggs Recipe
Serve as breakfast wraps. Good for on the go, or if served on a plate, serve with something tomato-y such as a salsa, sliced tomatoes, ketchup or a chili sauce.
Corn and Chile Fritters Recipe
Lovely with bacon. Try these for a summer breakfast, or for an American southwestern themed lunch or light supper with a side salad.
Creamed Corn Recipe
Tinned cream corn suits most people just fine, but every once in a while it’s nice to make it from scratch. It’s an easy side dish, and easily presentable to guests when you have made it yourself.