Jesse, you're growing corn at home? That's cool. I thought you were living in Manhattan or somewhere similarly scarce on backyard space.
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
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Heh. I am now living in Boston, and my corn came from a CSA.
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.
Yeah, the best corn is always from the roadside stands.
Luckily, I no longer have to worry about storing corn. Until next week!
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.
Oh yeah, super fresh corn is excellent raw.
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.
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.
That's the beauty of roasting, you don't shuck it 'til you eat it. That's my system, anyway.