Okay, so that was a bust. My first attempt at homemade creamed corn was just plain bad. K actually liked it as it was the first thing on her plate to be finished. Of course, she could have been saving the best, including homemade mac & cheese, for last. L wouldn't even touch it and kept screaming, "But I don't want corn!" I made S some plain old corn with butter. His looked much better than mine. Oh well.
Now, I consider myself a decent cook. I like to create things, to try new recipes, to please my family with food. Baking is really more my style while S likes to cook. We make a good team. And almost everything that he creates turns out wonderfully. Notice I said almost. Just ask him about the ricotta gnocchi. But this creamed corn was pretty gross. I ate it but I didn't want to save the leftovers. Fortunately, I still have lots of good corn left in the freezer to try a couple of other recipes. I'll let you know how they turn out. I have my eyes on a corn casserole recipe that looks pretty tasty.
So if anyone out there has a really good recipe for creamed corn, please share it with me. And I don't mean one you just found from allrecipes (which is where I found the recipe I used and it wasn't good). I mean a really good, been in the family for umpteen generations recipe. There's a good Southern word for ya. Umpteen. I love good Southern words. I remember the first time I used the word "tump" in front of S. He looked at me like I had two heads. It's a cross between "turnover" and "dump" and is usually in reference to accidentally knocking something over. It's a great Southern word.
That's it for now. I have some great football to watch today. It's September, after all!
2 comments:
There is a great recipe for corn that our family always does.
However many ears of silver queen corn you want....wash, pull silks out and scrape the corn off the cobb..put into a non stick frying pan with a stick of butter, salt and pepper and stir continuously until done. You can also put it in an oven save dish and put it in the oven after it has cooked a while on top of the stove. I just hate messing up more dishes than absolutely need to be used.
TUMP! we always said it when someone swung too high on the swingset & it's legs began to lift up...it's gonna tump! Haha! Born and raised in Bham, where "fixin to" is also a regionally used term, laughed at anywhere outside the deep South. And there's the sin of "being ugly" which does not refer, of course, to one's looks but to behavior.
I'm a friend of Mod Girl! Now we are in Austin, Tx. I believe she's kept me posted on you and your little ones over time!
BB
www.lapofloveliness.blogspot.com
(ps JUST getting the blog started...)
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