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.

1 comment:

Galla Creek said...

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.