Ya flick 'em...

Oh man, another new one. Growing up on burgers and PBJ sandwiches leaves one out of the food loop, so to speak. Where do you find this wonderfood?

Corn meal, coarse or fine, or even corn flour, all produce good corn bread. While its baking, the corn meal turns into corn meal mush, and the texture of the bread doesn't seem to change much. Kind of like baking cookies or bread with oatmeal-the individual flakes disappear. Whole grain corn meal and flour are available in organic food stores and select super markets. better for you, doesn't keep as well, like whole wheat products.

regarding bulgur, I have had good luck with a dry mix consisting of dried onion flakes, dried parsley, dried garlic, rehydrated with beef or chicken boullion cubes. Keeps well, tastes okay, good texture.

Trader Joe's (my local anyway) currently has the Israeli (bigger granules) couscous, 1 lb for $1.99, will easily feed 4-6 adults. Like any grain anytime you buy couscous in bulk you'll save.

I also love kasha (bulgar wheat), but haven't had it since my local grocer stopped carrying my favorite brand of boxed kasha cereal, somehow the bulk bought kasha doesn't measure up. I'll have to check out the Russian delis. A cup of kasha stirred with an egg over really high heat, it wants to hang together from the egg but chop it up so it stays apart, splash a coup of beef bullion into this really, really hot egg-kasha mixture, cover to steam, wait 10 minutes, add pepper to taste, ambrosia!

Hi OldBaldGuy,

There are some tasty Quinoa recipes here at the BBC recipes website

You should be able to get Quinoa from your local supermarket without any problems.

Thanks. I prowled a SaveMart, a pretty large chain grocery store, today looking for couscous, with zero luck...

Don't give up, OBG! It's out there, it really is. I've seen it in both Krogers and Wal-mart superstores, and I live in KY, not exactly a hotbed of cultural diversity.

As for cornmeal - definitely get the fine ground. The coarse is chicken feed! Someone mentioned cornmeal mush - cook some cornmeal on the top of the stove, like you would oatmeal or other hot cereal. Pour it into an oiled loaf pan. Cover and chill in the fridge overnight. In the morning, slice about 1/4 inch thick and fry in a little butter - serve with syrup over it. Very cheap, good eats.