The Gothic Homesteader

A popping chicken dish! 3-4 cups cooked Chicken 1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup 1 8oz container of Sour Cream I tube of Ritz Crackers ½ stick of Butter melted 2 Tablespoons Poppy Seeds * Place Chicken in casserole dish.   * Combine sour cream and soup.   * Spread the sour cream/soup mix over chicken.   * Melt butter.   * Break crackers into crumbs.   * Mix cracker crumbs and poppy seeds into butter.   * Spread over the top of chicken and sour cream/soup.   * Beak uncovered at 350 F for 30 minuets.   * Serve at once! This is a tasty treat, my husband, Robby, and I just baked for the whole family, much to their great delight.  We had purple wonder potatoes and Navajo blue cornbread to the side.  Tasty! ~ Morria

As I have been studying Black, Purple, Blue, and other "dark" Gothic Plants, I would like to introduce you to a personal favorite:  Navajo Blue Corn, also called Hopi Blue,  is a variety of Flour maize grown in northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States, particularly in the states of Arizona and New Mexico.  One of  the “Zea mays” corns  domesticated by Meso-Americans along the Rio Balsas of Mexico by at least 6,700 BC.  Corn is a staple food and has many ritual uses.    In my studies, I have found that Navajo Blue Corn was originally developed by the Hopi, and remains an essential part of Hopi and Navajo dishes.  Blue Corn Kernals are gound to make meal, and has a sweet flavore.  Blue Corn is also a staple of New Mexican Cuisine, where it is also known as Zuni Blue Corn.  The Navajo dry farm this corn below their canyons and mesas (near a flood plain to catch natural monsoon rains), thus making it a nice drought hearty...