Monday, July 23, 2007

Fresh corn

Yesterday was a day of bread and corn. Amongst other things, for which see below.

But it will live on in our minds as a day of corn. The first decent batch of corn from our garden, and it was good. Not stunningly stellar, not simply super, but definitely better than most we have bought this year. And I think that when we pick more in a week or so, it will have grown bigger and will be magnificent. (I think that I am being over-hyper-critical at the moment, as I often am of any endeavour in which I play a role: I shouldn't do so regarding the corn, as I had nothing to do with it!) And in the morning, LOML, having consulted the runes and the gardening zones for our region, planted some more corn, so we should have a harvest in the autumn too.

Of bread? Big, ungainly, shapeless loaf. Quite delicious. Freeform from a dough loose enough to be almost ciabatta, it is big and wholey holey. K&K raved about it, as they did about LOML's orange icecream (following Nigella Lawson's recipe)
though she topped it with drizzles of ganache. Lily-gilding? Naaaah.

We do love having people over for dinner! It seems like it just isn't a week if we don't have people over at least three times: the week just seems, somehow, empty...

Yours, cornily,
N.
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3 comments:

Cornish Dreamer said...

Your own crops! It must be so satisfying to cook and eat them.

I'm currently waiting on our tomatoes but with this weather, they'll never turn red. Any good recipes (other than chutney) for green tomatoes?!

I'll agree with you there, a week seems almost bland if we haven't had guests over for dinner.

July 23, 2007 at 10:43 AM
BreadBox said...

It is tremendously satisfying indeed! Unfortunately we were out of town during peak planting series and relied on our tenants to plant what they chose. This has led us to have a different crop than last year (corn, which is a plus, but no fresh peas, which is a definite minus).

LOML is the gardener: I have neither skill nor desire to dig in the dirt! But I do love to eat fresh produce: our first two tomatoes came off the plants yesterday: unfortunately one of them was picked by Skibo, and was not ripe enough to eat!

As for green tomatoes: there is a famous recipe over here for fried green tomatoes --- basically, sliced, breaded and sauteed in hot oil. I'm not a huge fan, but they are interesting and definitely worth a try. Especially if you don't get any sun for the next few weeks!

N.

July 23, 2007 at 11:35 AM
Beckie said...

Wow -that all sound wonderful. There is nothing like fresh from the garden and homemade.

July 23, 2007 at 10:55 PM

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