Blue Sage: Go! Eat Tomatoes and Corn! Now!

September 14, 2005

Go! Eat Tomatoes and Corn! Now!

'Tis the season for amazing corn and insanely good heirloom tomatoes. We've lucked out the past few weeks with some beautiful and delicious tomatoes, from the Thursday farmer's market across from Lincoln Center, and some perfect organic corn from the Coop. We've been doing the corn thing for a while now -- stopping at produce stands upstate and buying different kinds in search of that perfectly ripe end-of-summer corn. We've had some good ears, too. We grilled corn from two different places at a dinner with friends upstate -- some was from the local supermarket, some from a stand on the side of the road. Oddly, the supermarket corn (which is local) was better, but both were good and we had a discussion about how the one batch was was great, but the other was heavenly, and that's an important distinction, etc. So the organic corn we got from the coop Monday has to be described with yet another superlative. It was -- the next category of corny goodness -- sublime. It had very small kernels, and they weren't fully mature at the end of the ear, but it was so sweet and good that I kept trying to suck more out of it long after it was done. (We also bought the non-organic kind at the Coop, thinking it might be fresher, but it was sort of tough).

Here's a tip from Derek for cooking corn -- forget about the stove and use the microwave. To cook two ears of corn, put them in the microwave, without shucking them, for four minutes. Then let them sit in there for a bit, then do 30 seconds more. (For one ear, just microwave it for three minutes, rotating it once in the middle if it's not spinning). Shuck, butter, salt, and eat with relish (not the condiment). Microwave results may vary depending on the power of the microwave.

Posted by csageday at September 14, 2005 11:42 PM

Comments

I have been trying for the last six or so weeks to eat all the tomatoes. Other people keep getting in my way, but it is my goal. I just want to eat nothing but tomatoes. All of them. My weight in them. Oh, how I love them. I now refuse to eat the ersatz facsimile tomatoes that I am offered in the pale months of winter, because they merely make me sad. Now is for tomatoes. Oh, and corn. Roasted on the grill. Mmmmmm. Or boiled. And now I have to try the microwave!

Posted by: Rose at September 20, 2005 09:27 PM