hominy

Others might be baking brussel sprouts, mashing potatoes or even stirring very buttery hominy.

In this case, we are referring to dough made from freshly ground nixtamalized corn or hominy.

The story is after all set in the fictional Cob County, where the locals, long isolated from the rest of the world by a wall of “cornrows,” live in the perfect “hominy” of entrenched dopiness.

The savory, rich stock teems with fatty hunks of pork shoulder and buttery white hominy beneath a slick of oil stained red from dried chiles.

The key here is the interplay between the broth and the hominy and pieces of fork-tender pork submerged in the liquid.