New Mexican meals make much use of conrn which is served in variety of way baked as tortillas served fresh as com on the cob, blended into soups and sauces, and mixed into salads or with vegetables, especially red and green peppers. Native blue corn is quite surprising when it is served as blue com bread. chips, or tortillas. Im the markets of New Mexico, you can still find chicos, or sun- dried grains or roast sweet corn Chicos last a long time. but when soaked and boiled, they taste almost like fresh com Many recipes also contain pinon or pine nuts the small sweet seeds of the southwestern pine tree, once a staple food in the Pueblo diet.