http://laylita.com/recipes/2008/09/05/humitas/ Recipes with step by step photos Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:38:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://laylita.com/recipes/2008/09/05/humitas/comment-page-2/#comment-126810 joselito Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:14:57 +0000 http://laylita.com/recipes/?p=989#comment-126810 I'm still here, just finished my dessert of custard with Adams crunchy peanut butter (trying to be a bit creative). Just enjoying these recipes, the process of preparing them that you experienced when you're a kid and the higueron tree story. This is so awesome work preserving a wonderful culture. Reminds me of all the goodies my grandparents used to cook and bring us from the province every New Year when I was a kid. But now they're gone and so are my parents, and all that's left are memories of all those goodies that I yearn for. But this site gives me an idea which I and future family can start. Thanks again for the inspiration! I’m still here, just finished my dessert of custard with Adams crunchy peanut butter (trying to be a bit creative). Just enjoying these recipes, the process of preparing them that you experienced when you’re a kid and the higueron tree story. This is so awesome work preserving a wonderful culture. Reminds me of all the goodies my grandparents used to cook and bring us from the province every New Year when I was a kid. But now they’re gone and so are my parents, and all that’s left are memories of all those goodies that I yearn for. But this site gives me an idea which I and future family can start. Thanks again for the inspiration!

]]> http://laylita.com/recipes/2008/09/05/humitas/comment-page-2/#comment-117624 Sara Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:01:30 +0000 http://laylita.com/recipes/?p=989#comment-117624 Very interesting! In my homeland, Madagascar, we make a kind of humitas but ours are sweet. We call it "koba raviny", pronounced "cooba ravini". I remember as a child we would make some on holiday afternoons with my sisters and my mom. The recipe: cook the corn and then ground the kernels with leftover rice, peanuts and ripe bananas. Even though we had a food processor, we prefered to use a mortar according to the traditionnal method. It was also funny for us to use the mortar and the pestle. Add sugar and a hint of vanilla. Then wrap the puree in the corn husks and cook them. "Koba raviny" are usually eaten as a snack; children especially like them as after-school snacks. Street sellers - women most of the time- sell them in the late afternoon. Very interesting!
In my homeland, Madagascar, we make a kind of humitas but ours are sweet. We call it “koba raviny”, pronounced “cooba ravini”. I remember as a child we would make some on holiday afternoons with my sisters and my mom.
The recipe: cook the corn and then ground the kernels with leftover rice, peanuts and ripe bananas. Even though we had a food processor, we prefered to use a mortar according to the traditionnal method. It was also funny for us to use the mortar and the pestle. Add sugar and a hint of vanilla. Then wrap the puree in the corn husks and cook them.
“Koba raviny” are usually eaten as a snack; children especially like them as after-school snacks. Street sellers – women most of the time- sell them in the late afternoon.

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