May 15, 2006

• Corn on the Cob

  

  Sweet Corn on Wikipedia

  Oh! Yum! Corn on the cob! I like boiled best, but its good almost anyway you cook it! Slathered in butter and salted - MmMmMmMm - Yum! There were so many good pictures of corn on the cob to choose from, I just put a bunch of them together in an animation so you could drool over them!

  

  How to cook corn on the cob: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/40047

  There is nothing like fresh corn on the cob, quickly boiled, spread with lots of sweet butter, and sprinkled with salt. Two ears per person may seem like a proper serving, but appetites run high when corn is in season and freshly picked.

  Just before cooking, husk the corn, pull off the silky threads, and cut out any blemishes with a pointed knife. Drop the corn into a large pot filled with boiling salted water. Cover the pot and let the water return to a boil again, then turn off the heat and keep the pot covered. After about 5 minutes, remove enough ears for a first serving. You can keep the remaining corn warm in the water for another 10 minutes without its becoming tough. Serve with lots of butter and salt.

  

  We have some of these corn holder thingies - but I only use them if the stuff is to hot to handle when I eat it. Otherwise, they just get in the way! Then there is the methodology for eating the corn off the cob. You can go round in circles - constantly turing the corn, or you can eat it as if you were typing text on a typewriter, one or several rows at a time, then turn to eat the next row or rows! I usually do the typewriter method - about three rows at a time.

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  Who would have known?

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  Dead Turkey Joke of the Day (these are pretty corny) Question: With what vegetable do you throw away the outside, cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away inside? Answer: Corn!!! (Hahahahahaha!) Question: Why can't you tell secrets in a cornfield? Answer: Because there are too many ears! Question: What did the corn family say to the audience at the circus? Answer: We will A-Maize you! Question: What did the salt say to the popcorn? Answer: Season's greetings!!! (Teehee!) Question: What did the young popcorn kernel brag to the other young kernels? Answer: Betcha my Pop's bigger than yours! Two corn cobs were walking down the street. One cob noticed that they were being followed everywhere they went. He turned to the other cob and said, "Don't look now, but I think we have a stalker!"

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  How do you like your corn on the cob cooked? How do you eat it?

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