Cooking Corn

[livingdeb]

I cooked corn on the cob for the first time yesterday. Here are the steps I took.

1. Hear about easy delicious microwave recipe.

2. Wait until corn is in season (i.e., no more expensive than 3/$1) and buy an ear.

3. Forget about it in the refrigerator for over a week.

4. Microwave it in the husk for 2 minutes. Notice that the ear is too long to keep from getting wedged in the microwave when the carousel turns.

5. Wrap in a towel for five minutes while steam does something or other.

6. Take the husk off, salt and eat.

It was a bit underdone and not very yummy. I was going to eat the whole thing anyway, but I just couldn't get through that last row.

Robin says it's best to grill it and second best to roast it in the oven or even the microwave.  He also said it's best to avoid corn, one of the scariest frankenfoods we currently have.

I kind of like corn on the cob, though, and don't eat enough vegetables.  And just because it's been altered doesn't mean it's dangerous.  If it is dangerous, it's just another one of the slow-death things, not a quick-death thing.  So I will try cooking it again.

Comments

[fraeuleinchen.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not saying that the on-the-cob eatin' corn hasn't been jacked with... I'm just saying that the huge huge huge miles and miles of corn fields out in the mid-West, which have a pastoral look about them, contain corn that is basically inedible. It is grown only for its use as an agent to be recycled into other food and food-like substances. Watch King Corn, and you'll learn more! (And then promptly forget much of it, like me :-/)

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Wow. It's sick what's legal in this country.