Corn Recipes

Hearty colonial brown bread made with three flours, dark molasses, warm spices, and plump raisins. A rustic no-yeast quick bread your whole family will love.

Twenty cloves of garlic and earthy mushrooms sautéed with toasted breadcrumbs and fresh parsley, simmered in chicken broth for bold, soul-warming soup.

A layered Mexican tortilla casserole with spinach, corn, zucchini, and Monterey Jack in a smoky roasted green chili-tomato sauce. Think vegetarian enchilada lasagna, stacked and baked.

A hearty soup just loaded with a huge variety of winter vegetables

This turned out quite nicely, great mix of textures and flavors. If you use store bought salsa and store bought tortilla chips you will want to watch the salt levels.

Low fat Mexican-style creamed corn simmers corn kernels with bell peppers, celery, and green chiles, then binds with reduced-fat cream cheese and skim milk. A lighter Tex-Mex side.

Pescado a la Tipitapa, a Nicaraguan pan-fried fish in toasted cornmeal with a tomato, sweet pepper, and white wine sauce. Crispy cornmeal crust under a savory, tangy vegetable sauce.

Bread machine pumpernickel for the Zojirushi with rye flour, cocoa, molasses, and a touch of coffee. Dark, dense rye bread done hands-off in the breadmaker.

Old-fashioned lemon chess pie with cornmeal as the traditional thickener and fresh lemon juice for tang. The simplest Southern dessert: 5 ingredients, one bowl, no fuss.

French-style escargots baked on mushroom caps with a white wine, garlic, parsley, and butter sauce. A classic bistro appetizer served with crusty bread for sopping up the pan juices.

Cornbread stuffing layers crumbled herbed cornbread with chicken livers, chestnuts, dried apricots, raisins, pine nuts, almonds, and apple. Rich and complex Thanksgiving showstopper.

Classic Southern pecan pie with dark corn syrup, butter, and vanilla in an unbaked pie shell. Gooey, caramelized filling with whole pecan halves on top.

Mexican pheasant casserole layered with corn tortilla strips, two cheeses, sour cream, salsa, and cream-of soups. A hearty hunter's dish for using up wild bird.

Big-batch Texas-style chili with 5 lbs of rough-ground beef and pork simmered in beer, sour mash whiskey, jalapenos, and a heavy hand of cumin. No beans. No compromise. Pure cowboy heat.

A quick and easy bread machine bread recipe to celebrate Cinco de Mayo (a Mexican holiday).

Garlic-marinated caribou steaks grilled and topped with a buttery green peppercorn and cognac sauce. A refined wild game dinner with French bistro flair.