Humitas Saturday

Fresh from a trip to the market, Arlette & The Diminutive One set about destroying the kitchen in order to make humitas. The sack of corn was a bit of a givaway, as humitas are little parcels of cooked corn and onion, wrapped in leaves. The Chicken & I were exiled to the living room for the duration.

Making humitas is a bit like buying a real Christmas tree - you are still getting needles stuck in your socks in July. Sweeping up the hairs that fall off the corn as the the leaves are pulled off is a bit like trying to bottle willow-the-wisp.

Serve up with an onion and tomato salad, and wash down with beer. Lovely.

Arlette upright before the beer
Corn mush

Making the parcels

Steaming humitas!