Six Impossible Things

[bugshaw]

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 aardvark179 for some Cildo Meireles goodness!

Comments

[voidampersand.livejournal.com]

Just because you find a fork in the cyclepath doesn't mean you should use it to slice corn off the cob.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Especially if I've taken the wrong fork.

[voidampersand.livejournal.com]

They have etiquette classes for that, you know.

[anef.livejournal.com]

The creamed corn was delicious. I might try making it with frozen sweet corn though.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

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.