Where is the sweet corn?

Me | 7/25/10 | mylife

[mylife]

Where is all the damn sweetcorn?

I have seen precious little in the market and its like 50c an ear field corn.

Where's the crop?!! I am seriously jonesing

[combat_boots]

Hey. Maybe you’ll be flown to DC to cook some up for the birthday party on 8/4 or whenever. Get paid $10s of thousands, too. There’s your grubstake for a grasshopper biofuel. Then again, maybe the Enviro-whackos will declare them endangered species.....

I bet they taste like chicken, too. ;>

[Wilum]

Can you send that to PO Box FM 1520 Greenville Tx?

I would but this is NY and I would probably break some contra ban law!

[CAluvdubya]

Just outside of Sacramento on Hwy 16 there is a Farm, called Sloughhouse

Used to live in Sac....I never could see why "they" didn't spell it Slewhouse. Should would have been easier on a newcomer like I was. :)

[waterhill]

Urp! All gone... Call Zman and tell him we are on empty... Pronto!

[combat_boots]

I-O

[Kirkwood]

Being used to feed the coons that come by my place every night.

[armydoc]

And, when it comes to corn and ethanol - it's not a food OR fuel proposition, it's food AND fuel.

It's only fuel because of massive government subsidies and mandates. And yes, I know there are subsidies for food crops as well, to which I also object. However, the ethanol subsidies dwarf any other. There also is no mandate for supermarkets to stock any vegetable product, unlike methanol mandates in gasoline. Get the government out of it and let the market work!

[La Lydia]

My sister sent me this and it is scrumptious. I add salt and white pepper.

Ingredients:
-Olive Oil, 1T
-Fresh sweet corn 6 good-size ears
-Shallots-sliced, 1
-Garlic cloves-sliced, 2
-Heavy Cream, 2 cups
-Garlic Chives-minced, 2T

1. Husk the corn.
2. Put shallots, garlic and HALF the corn in a saucepan over low heat for two minutes to soften.
3. Add the heavy cream and sloooowly simmer for 20 minutes.
4. Put in a blender and puree till smooth.
5. Put pureed corn into a sauce pot and add the remaining raw corn.
6. Cook sloooowly together for 30 minutes.
7. Add minced garlic chives and serve

[buccaneer81]

Boatloads of it here in Central Ohio.

[goat granny]

If you live in an area that had oddles of rain thats not good for growing corn either....I have had so much rain the mosquito's breed in the grass.

[Hot Tabasco]

I want it NOW

All kidding aside, my source's corn crop seems to be ahead of schedule but I can't verify that until I talk with him. But for what it's worth, we've had a lot of rain and a lot of hot weather here in S.E. Michigan so that may have had something to do with his corn now being ready for harvest. But then again, maybe it's just the normal time for picking........What do I know, I'm not a farmer! LOL!

[Miss Didi]

[Envisioning]

I have (sob!) fallen from the True Corn Path.......

LOL!

[waterhill]

Somebody here said I was crazy to hunt pigs with a 9mm carbine.....http://i32.tinypic.com/2zr1b49.jpg

[US Navy Vet]

We have a Dozen ears in my fridge right now MAJOR YUMM!

[deoetdoctrinae]

Here in east Tennessee, we have been getting wonderful Silver Queen corn for a few weeks now, plus just began getting some really good Peaches and Cream corn. Add in the peaches, watermelon, canteloupe, blackberries, yellow squash, okra, bell peppers, and Grainger County tomatoes, and you’ve died and gone to heaven!

[Envisioning]

Whoeee! Now we really need some corn and tators too!

[waterhill]

That dog in the pic is 75+ lbs. to give you a clue...

[50cal Smokepole]

It wasn’t me! LOL! Looks like the dog is waiting for the BBQ sauce. Also looks like the 9 did just fine. Nice shot. ;)

[Hot Tabasco]

Peak sweet corn maturity was three weeks ago here in extreme southeast Kansas.

For a number of years I traveled to Logan KS in the N.W. corner for pheasant hunting...........Quite an out of the way place but an excellent location to get back to normal. Folks there were really great and down to earth........