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 find 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 pinon ,or pine nuts , the small sweet seeds of the southwestern pine tree,
once a staple food in the Pueblo diet
A Spanish influence can be found in the sweet , anise-flavored cookie sold in New Mexico bakeries
They are prepared much as they were made in the kitchens of seventeenth-century Spain for the Christmas feast