Corn and peas start converting their sugar to starch as soon as they're picked.
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Jul 30, 2010 1:52:15 pm PDT #15533 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Spidra Webster - Jul 30, 2010 1:54:41 pm PDT #15534 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Jesse, you're growing corn at home? That's cool. I thought you were living in Manhattan or somewhere similarly scarce on backyard space.
Jesse - Jul 30, 2010 1:56:30 pm PDT #15535 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Heh. I am now living in Boston, and my corn came from a CSA.
Kathy A - Jul 30, 2010 1:57:21 pm PDT #15536 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Alton Brown says that the best way to cook corn is to set the water to boil on your stove, walk out the door and pick the corn, and then pop it into your pot immediately.
Hil R. - Jul 30, 2010 1:58:01 pm PDT #15537 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, the best corn is always from the roadside stands.
Jesse - Jul 30, 2010 2:01:13 pm PDT #15538 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Luckily, I no longer have to worry about storing corn. Until next week!
-t - Jul 30, 2010 2:06:44 pm PDT #15539 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The one ear of corn that I harvested in the backyard, I just ate raw right there whenI peeled back the husk to make sure it was ripe. Pretty delicious, if tiny.
Jesse - Jul 30, 2010 2:09:11 pm PDT #15540 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yeah, super fresh corn is excellent raw.
Spidra Webster - Jul 30, 2010 2:15:03 pm PDT #15541 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
I had a rockin' edible landscape for 4 or 5 years at my old house. Unfortunately I never tried growing corn because I tend to do better on a low glycemic diet. Not that I was good and staying on that diet all the time, but planting something off the diet is admitting ahead of time you'll cheat. Heh.
megan walker - Jul 30, 2010 2:23:01 pm PDT #15542 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Eta: I'm experimenting with the notion that if you cook corn immediately it keeps better. Good results so far from roasting all the ears that came last last week.
My dad never went to pick the corn until my mother had started boiling the water. Sadly, he only did the picking and we were the ones that had to shuck it.