Corn is the magic vegetable.
I love corn.
You can have corn for every single meal.
You can have cornflakes for breakfast, or if you want a hot brekkie, you can have corn fritters.
For lunch you can have cold corn in a salad, corn cakes (like rice cakes) or some warm corn bread.
For dinner, the options are endless, with cream of corn soup, cornflake encrusted chicken, frozen corn chucked into your pasta sauce, or just good ol’ corn on the cob.
And then after dinner, you can enjoy corn chips with salsa, candied corn or some delicious popcorn.
Corn can be dried, steamed, baked, roasted, barbecued, boiled, pureed, ground, sweetened, popped or flattened. It can be added to anything, savoury or sweet and it can be eaten in any way, hot or cold.
I love corn.
I love to put a corn holder in each end of a freshly steamed cob and bite into its juicy sweet flesh enjoying every last kernel, maybe with a small blob of butter melting into it.
It’s the only vegetable I can think of that you can hold like that. It gives you the same satisfaction you get from chomping into a chicken leg or some barbecued ribs.
It may even save the world with the ability to use the ethanol they can get from it as an alternative to fossil fuel. On  the Fuel Corn website they describe it as “Nature’s Pure, Perfect Fuel”. This is the wrap they give corn…
Corn may be nature’s only perfect fuel. It produces oxygen as it grows and needs no special processing or pelletizing before use. It is nature’s perfect pellet fuel.  A near pure food and pure fuel, corn burns virtually smoke free, odor free, ash free, and pollutant free. It produces no dangerous creosote in your vent pipes, no waste product, and it requires no chimney.
Burn corn and you emit no more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than if it were left in the field to decay or fed to animals. Using a corn stove or furnace will produce the very same three things that you produce every day as you breathe out: carbon dioxide, moisture, and HEAT! (Lots of heat in this case!) If everyone would burn corn rather than wood, the blue-gray haze of wood smoke over our neighborhoods every winter morning would be gone! I have heard that the best pellet stove sytems are built specifically to reduce their emissions, if you have the dollars to spend on a green version of wood burning, please do! Other great advantages of corn are that it is inexpensive and plentiful.
and so it goes on.
Anyway, that’s my quick blog on how I love corn.
If you would like to learn more about corn (as I’m sure you do!), go to the Wikipedea article and you will only be more convinced that corn is the magic vegetable.
Or if you want recipes on corn, here is a website of 87 of the best corn recipes.
Or if you want to find out about how they put corn in everything from toothpaste to crayons, click here to go to the official corn website.
I love corn.
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