blended into soups and sauces,and mixed into salads or with other vegetables,especially red and green peppers. Native blue corn is quite surprising when it is served as blue corn bread,chips,or tortillas. In the markets of New Mexico,you can still fine chicos,or sun-dried grains of roasted sweet corn. Chicos last a long time,but when soaked and boiled,they taste almost like fresh corn. Many recipes also contain piñon,or pine nuts,the small sweet seeds of the southwestern pine tree,once a staple food in the Pueblo diet