Will it blend?

[drcuriosity]

We got three bags of corn chips from the supermarket a few days back that were devoid of flavouring. While waiting for vouchers to turn up for new bags of corn chips, I did an experiment to see if I could salvage edibility out of some of the kilogramme or so of less-than-salsa-flavoured chips.

So, after using a bowl-and-mug due to lack of mortar-and-pestle, I remembered that I own a food processor. This allows me to turn large corn chips into small flakes quite quickly. Adding in pasta sauce and nuking it for a while to soften, this has left me with... well, something. It's kind of like couscous in texture, but corny. And going fairly well with the tomato and basil sausages I picked up down at the local butcher this morning.

Could probably use a little bit of something tart, like vinagrette and diced cucumber. Or the Chilean pebre I picked up from a place near Pasadena when I was visiting there. That stuff was damned good - kind of like a South American pesto.

Stomach calls. Ingestion ensues.

Comments

[jexia]

Alison Holst does a "Mexican lasagne" which layers mince, salsa etc with stale corn chips.

[drcuriosity]

That does sound a bit like an atrocity against both Italian and Mexican cuisine, but then again I've already started down the dark road of culinary mad science...

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

You can easily make nachos out of plain corn chips.

[drcuriosity]

True. I don't currently have enough people home to make nachos at the scale I prefer, but that's certainly something that's on the cards.

[peterfitz.livejournal.com]

You actually found unflavoured corn chips? I had lost hope that anyone still made corn chips that weren't slathered with some disgusting pseudo cheese or spice mix powder. The fact that you found some, even by mistake, lifts my spirits and lets me hope against hope that some day I too may be so lucky.

[shenya.livejournal.com]

There are some plain salted ones out there. Personally I'd prefer them sans the salt... but from the point of view of dairy intollerant I was just glad to find some I could do nachos with :)

[muerk.livejournal.com]

The best corn chips for nachoes are the Old El Paso ones and they are plain tasting. You find them with the taco kits usually.