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So here are some things I’ve learned about corn recently.
You can eat corn directly off the cob without cooking it. For salads and cold
dishes this is awesome (Jenny shared this tip with me). It is actually sweeter
if you don’t cook it. Also, you can freeze corn in the husk. Just grab some
when it is cheap and pop it in the freezer. Pull it out and thaw it and off you
go to throw it on the grill, shuck it and cut it off the husk for some salad…the
options are really endless. To get the corn out of the cob with fewer “hairs”
all you have to do is cut the very top of the husk off with the tip of the corn.
Then pull the husk down as you normally would and you should end up with very
few “hairs” holding on [got this tip online but cannot for the life of me find
the source-it wasn’t me who came up with this brilliance] and you can rinse
those last few off pretty easily.
Now, let’s talk about popcorn…yum. I am a fan of popcorn. I
very much enjoy it as a snack or as a movie watching treat, sometimes I think I
could just eat a bowl as a meal and to be honest at some point when I lived
alone I probably did. HA! But microwave popcorn with all it’s additives is
certainly not the best for anyone and I never wanted to get an air popper or
cook it on the stove, but recently I discovered this WONDERFUL trick for
microwave popcorn. Drum roll please…a brown lunch bag! SAY WHAT? Oh yeah, you
can throw corn kernels in a brown lunch bag and stick it in the microwave. I’ve
found that about a 1/3 cup of kernels is about the right amount. It will pop
perfectly and tastes delicious. There is no need to add any butter, oil, etc
while it is popping because the heat is what makes it pop not the oil or
butter. Best of all you can add whatever extras to it you like and know what
you are getting. I like to sprinkle mine with a little olive oil and parmesan
cheese. Fold the top of the bag over twice because it will push open as the
kernels pop. In my microwave it takes approx 2 minutes but all microwaves are
different so just listen for the pops and when it starts slowing down if you
can count to 3 in between pops it is finished. Once you’ve done it a couple
times you’ll know the exact right timing for your microwave. [Again, this was
not my brilliance but I cannot remember where online I found it].
Key loves popcorn too so she got to enjoy the tutorial bag!
Sunny Day to you,
Daspri
How funny! One of my other favorite bloggers posted this post on the EXACT same day. It's apparently time for some homemade popcorn.
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Slightly different approach but looks good too.
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