I’ve always loved summer corn on the cob, but never so much as this summer, when I learned that Weight Watchers assigns only 1 point to a medium ear. I’ve eaten a lot of corn while losing weight this summer, and most of it has been very, very good. Even grocery store corn has been good, sometimes even topping farm-stand corn. Mista Barista likes to soak it in the husk, then put it on the grill, but I find it almost as tasty wrapped in wax paper and zapped for a minute or two in the microwave. I don’t mind chomping on a cob, but I also didn’t mind when Market, serving up its delicious pick-four-vegetable plate, sliced it off for me, presenting a neat little pile of fresh sweet. I’m not much of a connoisseur of the various corn varieties, and I don’t believe white is necessarily sweeter than pedestrian yellow. (I don’t pull the husks down to check it, either.) For diet purposes, it’s great sliced into any salad, but this corn fritter recipe over at Best of New Jersey, could make me fall off the wagon.
So, how’s the corn been for you? And where’s the best around?
Speaking of corn, I could happily extend August another whole month, but over at Barista Kids, Kristen seems a little anxious to get fall, and school, underway. Go over and vote in the poll.