Aug 25, 2019
So how was your weekend & the end of the corn story
Last Tuesday were coming back from a walk and visit to our garden when we came across Peter from Black Mountain Sunrooms. He was doing a repair for a neighbour up the street. It was at least 30C/86F. Peter helped build our add a room ( half of our home ) back in 2012. He has always wanted a pith helmet like Colin’s and said that he has searched everywhere. We went home and Colin got his extra hat and we went back and gifted it to Peter. Pete has done so much to help us with our home that it was a pleasure to be able to do something for him. I noted that he wore it all the time he was doing the repair. The sun was intense that day.
We still had lovely weather on Wednesday when I caught this couple and their dog out on the lake.
Thursday was our annual dental clean and check up day. Colin went in early in the morning and stopped to pick up some Timbits for the dentist and his staff. He came back home with some freshly laid free range eggs. That white egg is is from our fridge to show the difference between a large size egg and what we got from the dentist.
The size of our tomatoes on Friday at the garden. They are out of control. They are now shading the kale and Swiss chard. Thinking about cutting them back.
We woke up to very very cool temperatures on Friday. We gave up and turned on the fireplace. I know, crazy for August 23rd. So happy to have the heat.
Saturday we were trying to get out Samsung Smart TV hooked up to our wifi so that we could watch a Cineplex movie rental. Only took close to 5 hours including four calls to Cineplex, Samsung and Shaw ( internet provider ) twice. No one could help us but Colin eventually figured it out. Samsung told us to buy a new TV! We were able to watch a lovely movie with dinner later in the evening.
Then we went with the corn experiment. Five minutes in the microwave was not enough, we added two more.
It was a bit of a struggle at first to get the cob moving.
Bit by bit.
I felt like we were delivering a baby.
This second one took bit more effort. But they did come out clean much to my amazement, no muss and little fuss. The corn tasted the same. Colin loves it as he was the one having to remove the husk and silk prior to wrapping in saran wrap and cooking.
Thank you blog readers. You always come through 😛
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Nice that you gifted that pith helmet I have one and enjoy wearing it usually when mowing the lawn here, We fired up our Blue flame heater this morning as well to take the chill off. We seldom have enjoy power to run our microwave, so just soak the corn and grill on the BBQ, works well for us.
Well grilling corn on the BBQ might not be in our immediate future but you never know.
Corn looks good – did you remove any of the extra outer husk from the cobs before cooking in micro?
No just put it into the microwave exactly as it was when we purchased it.
I am glad the “birthing” trick worked for you. When I have trouble getting the corn out, I usually cut off another half inch from the bottom, as it is easiest when cut at the widest part of the base.
Mucho gracia mi amiga.
Holy out of control tomatoes! I cut mine back Saturday but yours are jungle like 🙂 Never heard the trick with the corn, I don’t mind boiling them. We are thinking of adding a sunroom to our home to expand it, haven’t looked into it yet though
This is way easier than boiling the corn and having to clean a pot, not to mention quicker and likely less electricity involved. Ohh the sunroom sounds interesting. You have all winter to research.
Corn microwaved in the husk prefers 4 minutes per ear–so 8 minutes if you are cooking two ears. To “unwrap” it, grab it by the silks and husks (be careful not to grab the cob) and shake it vertically–let gravity do the work. The corn usually slides right out. I love not having to peel silks!
Good to know. Will try that next time. I think that we were holding the cob which may have been an issue.
I microwave my corn like that. I take a few husks off after cutting. 5 mins for 2 cobs. Leave in microwave for a couple mins. Sit outside microwave for mins or so p, then “birth the baby”.
Always works and yummy.
Outside microwave 2 mins or so.
So noted.
Nice to hear from you Shirley. Thank you for your input.
My tomatoes are tall but I don’t have as many as you … those are crazy tomatoes you have!
What is even crazier is that we didn’t plant them into the ground until the end of June.