The Mecham Cooking Show

Chevy’s (the restaurant) serves this small, yellow, corn-ball/lump of deliciousness on the side of some of their entrées. I love the stuff. If Chevy’s had an entrée featuring said corn-ball/lump I would order it and eat all of it – and not share.

Anyway, I found a recipe for Ecuadorian Humitas and thought to myself “Hey, that kind of looks like the stuff at Chevy’s and I have corn coming out of my ears (pun intended) so I am going to try and make Ecuadorian Humitas.”

We bought a fancy new steamer (something I’ve wanted for a while) and went to work.
Luke helped me by stripping the corn off the cob and blending everything together. I love it when he helps me cook; I think that it’s…never mind, it’s inappropriate.

First we husk the corn and par-boil the husks.



Then we de-cob the corn.


After that we blend the corn with the other ingredients.



Then we cut up the cheese and mix it in with the stuff we blended up.


Then we put the corn and cheese glop/paste into the corn husks and fold into a nice pocket. Pockets are tied closed with strips of corn husk.


Then we steam for a half hour – which turned into like 40 minutes.



TA DA! The finished product.



So Ecuadorian Humitas turned out to be nothing like whatever corn concoction of yummy-scrumptiousness that Chevy’s gives you. But they were still quite tasty. The cheese melted in random parts of the humita, which made it really good – like a cheesy, tasty surprise. We ate them with burritos and I ate them IN burritos for the next couple of days.

Because I felt like a failure because I didn’t replicate the Chevy’s corn-ball/lump, I went searching on the internet for the recipe. I found it (Sweet Corn Tomalitos). Now I’ve just got to find masa harina flour; I’ve been to two different grocery stores only to come home empty handed.




P.S. This is a random photo taken by Luke. These are some of the organic potatoes we got a couple of weeks ago with the weekly delivery. Luke found them rather pathetic. After living in Idaho for so long he expects more out of his potatoes - for them to be larger, for example. I have to admit...they are rather puny. They still taste good, though!