Friday, April 07, 2006
Yard sale finds
I bought these from a Mexican immigrant at a yard sale here in town three years ago.It amazes me what someone can do with nothing. They are paper and sticks and paint. I think they are a work of art. He had a good thing going with his yard sale until they passed a law that you could only have two yard sales a year and that shut him down or perhaps drove him under ground. He had a pot in his yard and he showed me how he made the corn meal that the Mexicans use to make talmaies. He had a fire and a black kittle with water , corn and lime and he cooked the corn all day then washed the lime away and ground his corn. It reminded me of the way we made homey when I was a child. I find that it is interesting to see how people of different cultures do things.
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That is neat. Remember we made the
hominy with ashes. It sounds like
theirs is like ours but the ground
the ground into flour after making
the hominy. I always wonders what the masa flour was.
Remember Dee Fancher--her mother was a mexican indian from Socorro
New Mexico. She was dead by my
time with Dee. I can remember her
but that is all. She cooked
differently too. Dee said they raised Pinto beans as a money crop.
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