Here’s how I made a rustic wholemeal polenta from homegrown corn that was left to dry on the plant. This is a great way to preserve corn and make a healthy full of fibre food out of preserved corn on the cob. Enjoy! 🙂
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Hi Mark. I bet your glad summer is almost over eh? The country folk here call this "fried mush". You can mix anything into it while boiling, herbs, cheese, you name it. I still have it on occasion with cheese and crumbled bacon, with maybe some sage being my favorite ( just make sure you add all the stuff towards the end of boil after it looks like bubbling lava). It's amazing stuff. Two good sized cobbs can feed a family of 4 with leftovers….how cheapskate is that 🙂 Also I think you will find if you grind it a little more finer than you did in this vid, it comes out much better and will make more mush. Don't worry, all the good stuff will still be in it, your not really processing it, just giving it a good whizzing. We never eat it the European way…..we always mold and fry it. It also makes a great breakfast with butter and maple syrup or whatever you want ( pumpkin, berries, even banana hint hint 🙂 . One more thing, you can use broth instead of water…sky's the limit and it's good with gravy on it, of course…what isn't 🙂 Anyway, thanks for the vid and gg. Oh almost forgot..I put my "fresh" corn in the freezer while still in the husk, no blanching…saves a step and works fine. Happy trails.
could make a nice pipe from that corncob!
Love the diversity of your channel!
4:48 Pioneer brand emergency toilet paper, lolz
Also, after grinding the corn you can soak the amount you want to cook and put it in the blender with the water just like you would to make rice batter.
I love that your channel is what it says. It’s about how YOU are living your self-sufficient life. It’s not GARDENING ME… keep it about you and your family’s self-sufficient journey. Thank you.
I am from Roumania, a small East European country where we eat lots of dishes where the corn flour is a substitute of bread. One( among so many others) easy recipe with corn flour is boil it just as you did just cook it a bit longer so the flour will be ready to eat. Mix good fat sour cream with cottage cheese and make like a paste, and enjoy it with the cooked corn flour.
Another tip to reuse the pan where you cooked the flour is to after you removed it you boil the fresh milk that comes straight from the cows. The flavour you will get is amazing
You forgot the all important alkaline lye wood ash treatment that makes the corn more digestible and higher in B vitamins
Thank you for being you and for sharing your knowledge. You are my favorite channel and I always find myself looking through your videos before I plant and i enjoy all the tips, tricks and foods. You have such a passion and it comes across so well in your videos, as does your sense of humor! Best wishes from nz.
For those a "Little" adventurous:…….Parched Corn
Thankyou. I have 11 kg of frozen corn in my freezer. I’m trying this next season. 🙂
Did you use the "pickled" tomatoes on the corn? You should get a "Corina Mill" to grind the corn. You can set the plates for make flour or crunchier if you want. Like this one I have. https://animedao28.stream/view/7807730314/
Hey you could try some nixtamalization with the corn so that you make hominy. The process helps removes 97-100% of the mycotoxins and also makes the niacin in it digestible
Don’t they use a grain corn rather than sweet corn to do this? What variety did you use?
Looks yumny
Your right. I love that u cover this stuff.
Great vid Mark. Just the info l was looking for.
I'm looking to make blue masa/hominy from maize or Indian corn. Your thoughts? I just bought a Victoria corn grinder. Thx mate. 🙂
I’ll be doing this to make cornmeal for frying… thank you.
Amazing Friday chef if iver 15 years this is truly awesome self sufficient me well done there fella channel I just love it so much inspiration im binge watching for weeks now lol
Ah, I have been asking for corn videos and here you are. It's 2021- Now, it looks like you used a sweet corn?-which gets tough when it dries out. You missed one quick step to get rid of the "chewy" part of the corn. The hull is not chewable or really digestible. But, the easy fix for that is to wash your corn meal, first. Place it in a bowl of cold water and give her a fast stir. All of the husks will rise to the top, and you strain that off. You are still left with the "whole corn". Have you thought about trying what is called dent corn? Truckers favorite is a sweeter white dent corn and best for only corn bread, because it's sweeter. Hickory King, is good for all of the other uses, grits, polenta, flour and corn meal. If you do decide to have another go at it. This corn gets up to 20 feet tall…so, plan accordingly for the wind. Happy Winter for you..it's getting HOT here in Florida.
Nixtilamization.
Look it up. You can get real sick if you dont.
Who says you should stay on one subject??? I was so excited that you not only showed us 2 different ways to dry the corn, but what to do with it later- and what a wonderful comment from WW Suwannee!!! So we have a large vegetable garden for the second time – the first one was 32 years ago, so we are novices. We grew atomic corn & Indian Corn because our neighbor said corn doesn't grow here because of the sandy & rocky soil, but later another neighbor said that she grew corn every year and she's 89!!! My daughter designed the garden for us and helped us choose the plants, and she, like you, likes to experiment. Atomic & Indian corn is hardier and faster growing than sweet corn- but being novices, we didn't know when they were ripe, so we are way past their prime, so we need to let them continue to dry out because they taste very mealy & starchy- but what about the runner beans growing on the corn? (A native American Indian technique to put more nitrogen into the soil for the corn.) We should have started the runner beans sooner!! Do we need to stop irrigating the corn? Pick the corn and hang it up? Will flys attack it? Can you hang it in the sun if your in a desert climate? (The Vietnamese hung it under the eaves because it rains there a lot, yes??)
THANKS AGAIN for the whole process. It is exactly what we needed to hear.
Hi Mark! I grow dry varieties of corn for just this purpose. I buy sweet corn at the local Farmer's market, as we don't eat that much of that variety.
I've been researching the best way to make it, as there is a school of thought that you have to process it with lime first. This seems so simple to me.
Keep on showing the different aspects that you do on your channel when it comes to self-sufficiency. There's a lot more than just gardening involved in being self-sufficient. So I think showing other ways that we can tackle being self-sufficient is a good thing to do. I mean your channel is "Self Sufficient Me" not "Self-sufficient Gardening."
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Hey mark I know this is old video but if you want to grow a corn is a true multi use corn look up and try hickory king corn it a great corn you can eat it like a sweet corn or dry it on stock and make corn mille or turn it into hominy corn after it dry by putting it in to boil water whit pickling lime and take off heat cover leave cover over night
Great job making your own Polinta, thanks for sharing how it's done. If you want to try something different might I suggest Nixtamalizing your corn and dehydrating it afterwards for long term storage. I think you would be surprised at how the flavors seem to be preserved from this process and you will be getting more nutrition from it. Just a thought.
I enjoy your videos. I'm in SEQ too, trying to start my own veggie patch. I'm a black thumb from a family of green thumbs. With your simple, easy tips it looks like I might have tomatoes and corn in the near future :-O. Thank you!