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Six Impossible Things

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 05:49pm on 29/11/2008
I'm making creamed corn. This is the first time I've sliced corn off a cob, and it's a messy job! The kernels sprayed off in a 2-foot radius of the chopping board, and what I shall describe as 'sweetcorn milk' has splattered over the draining board, the work surfaces, the plate stand, the Eee I was reading the recipe off... Smells lovely though.

This morning I cycled to work - and missed. There was a fork in the cyclepath, y'see... Still, I know the right route now or at least the first part of it. Then dashed off to the Tate Modern with [livejournal.com profile] aardvark179 for some Cildo Meireles goodness!
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posted by [identity profile] voidampersand.livejournal.com at 09:43pm on 29/11/2008
Just because you find a fork in the cyclepath doesn't mean you should use it to slice corn off the cob.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:30pm on 29/11/2008
Especially if I've taken the wrong fork.
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posted by [identity profile] voidampersand.livejournal.com at 07:16am on 30/11/2008
They have etiquette classes for that, you know.
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posted by [identity profile] anef.livejournal.com at 10:05am on 30/11/2008
The creamed corn was delicious. I might try making it with frozen sweet corn though.
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posted by [identity profile] don-fitch.livejournal.com at 03:15pm on 10/12/2008
A Ponca Indian acquaintance I was visiting in Oklahoma in '76 noticed the somewhat quizzical attention I was paying to a large cardboard box on the kitchen counter, and explained "It's useful when I'm shredding corn off the cob -- otherwise, it splatters and goes just everywhere". (She had a small farm and grew a _lot_ of sweet corn to dry for use in soups and stews during the rest of the year, holding that this was more Traditional than freezing it in a big and expensive machine.) I noticed that she also had a special curved knife (made by her husband) that stripped the kernels off the cob in three strokes.
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