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04-Jul-2023 Traveller

So Sad You are So Far Away...(from my Kitchen)

...it was such a thrill to be shucking corn again....it has honestly been 70 years since I shucked corn...as a labor more than for a fun 4th of July dinner....but the motions and efficient ways to to separate the husk and silk from the body of the corn...came back to me fast, like riding a bicycle, exactly...a talent acquired and so never lost.

Best Wishes, Traveller....yes, that is pure imported Irish Butter and the steaks are from the Harris Ranch, Central Valley CA.

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Canon Image Challenge10-Jul-2023 15:36
I shuck it standing at the produce bin at Walmart and they have a convenient 55 gallon trash bin for the customers right next to the bin and plastic bags to put them in. I have 4 in the frig ready to take a dip in the boiling pot tonight.

Jim is 100% right about field corn, it’s meant for feed and it also goes to the market to be ground as cornmeal. I remember shelling the field corn by hand to feed the pigs and chickens, tough on bare hands to do that. It is edible for corn on the cob BUT it must be picked early, very early when the sugar content is high. Wait did someone say wine? I’m in dry red please! Paul
Canon Image Challenge10-Jul-2023 11:27
I remember getting corn from farm stands. They're a lot farther away these days.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge09-Jul-2023 00:16
Thank you, Jim, that is probably true...I am always ready to be educated, (but we did eat it at our table quite a bit...but who knows what we were doing in 1950~53? As a kid, would I know if we had two different fields? (Grandpa also had a bakery in Cleveland, old donuts, cakes and breads were fed to our stock...good times chasing firefly's).
Canon Image Challenge08-Jul-2023 04:50
Most farmers in MN & NY that I was aware of that grew corn for their animals grew a version that we called field corn, not sweet corn. Occasionally as a child I would eat some field corn, generally picked from a field and roasted oven an open fire. It was passable; far from the taste and sweetness of sweet corn.


Jim
Canon Image Challenge08-Jul-2023 04:13
I am personally shocked that I can't remember the last time as an adult that I had fresh sweet corn to eat....I mean I see it in the market from time to time...but I just pass on by...

It may be that I still see corn as food for pigs/hogs...that is what we principally grew it for....hang it up in the corn crib to dry out for winter food...or fattening for the butcher and sale.

Well, I must say....sweet corn is damned good....fine food, we were too good to our pigs....lol

Best Wishes, Traveller
Canon Image Challenge08-Jul-2023 02:25
I am looking forward to native corn in a few weeks. Now, where's the wine?

Dave
Canon Image Challenge07-Jul-2023 15:42
Glad to hear you could fix a very good dinner for two. As for the corn, I have shucked it all my life, and continue to do so. In southern AZ, we are lucky to get decent corn from southern CA very early in the season, until late. I shuck it probably 7-8 mos of the year?
BTW, try it with a piece of salmon.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge07-Jul-2023 11:31
Cooking for two is also nice.

Dave