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neadods ([personal profile] neadods) wrote2007-09-12 07:52 pm
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Recipe - Corn Saute

Made a recipe I found in Fine Cooking today. Excellent stuff - a corn saute that pulled together in about 20 minutes out of leftovers/odd bits and cumulatively cost under $1.

Not so much a recipe as a process. No need to do mis-en-place; the previous ingredient cooks in just about the time it takes to chop the next one.

Butter - toss in pan and let brown while you slice up:
Bacon (in this case, a little bit of sliced ham). Throw in butter and let crisp while you dice:
4-5 medium mushrooms (I put in six; put in fewer if you use something big like portobello.

Let saute long enough for the mushrooms to start releasing their liquid. In the meantime, snap in half (to create a cutting base for each end) and slice the kernels off 1 ear corn.

Add corn and saute for about 4-5 minutes. While it's cooking, dice, grate or mince:

1 teaspoon(ish) of ginger. I have crystallized hanging around the fridge to chop. Add it.

Dust with liberal shake of garlic powder.

Stir up and let saute while you mince:

Smallish handful of parsley.

Right before it comes off the heat, give it a good squeeze of lemon juice.

And all hail the brilliant maniac who put the lyrics to Mystery Science Theater 3000 to Doctor Who pictures.

[identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com 2007-09-13 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't like any veg out of cans - it all tastes funny to me. I will make an exception for mushrooms, but I always douse them in garlic - and by the time you've put in that much garlic, you could be eating shoeleather. Or canned corn, I suppose.

[identity profile] patsyrant.livejournal.com 2007-09-14 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Must say that I don't either, and the British have an odd habit of calling corn as we know it "sweetcorn". Have you ever heard of "sour corn?"

[identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com 2007-09-14 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't heard of sour corn, but I did hear a couple of places that the common name for "grain" in Britain was "corn," which would need to the need to distinguish between "generic statement about grain" and "no, really, actual corn."

Sour Corn... tempting to make this a challenge! Let's see... lime juice...