Shelby

Breakfast 'fer us last night

Oh nice! Could you tell, were they the "younger" more white pods or the darker ones? On mine the darker were kind of like empty shells...some of them anyway. Not empty, but filled with like fungus dust if that makes sense. My husband went out to our field corn to look today. I could pick a ton of "Mexican truffle corn" if I wanted to. It's been a super wet year so I suppose that's why. I read online that most corn fields have 5-10% of the crop turn to smut (sorry, that's what we call it 'round here ) Edited to add: My husband wants to try them in a beer batter and fried...like a fried mushroom. I thought they would be great in a stroganoff......

I LOVE your soup FauxPas. I have a whole bag of frozen parm. rinds that I need to use. Thanks for a great idea to use summer veggies! What kind of dried beans did you use? What shape of pasta, macaroni? I can't see for sure from the pic.

I think I want to get one of those, too. I used a thin tea towel and it was a pain in the butt.

Venison cheeseburgers last night. And, the stars of the show, straight from the garden, Silver Queen corn, 'maters and fried okra. The burgers were super good, but I only ate a few bites. I was busy scarfing down the veggies.

Obviously, I have no idea what I'm doing here. After quite a long time reading online, I riffed off of the most basic recipe. I know it's not authentic, but it does taste good. Literally, they pick up flavors like a mushroom (imo). I gave my husband a taste and he deemed that "it was good, but a bit slimy". I asked if he would like it better in an enchilada with chicken and he said that he would. So, I'm cooling this off and then I'm going to freeze it. It will be a fun treat in the middle of winter for sure. All in all, I had a good time experimenting. I'd love to hear what I did wrong/right as I don't have any real life reference to go off of. Here's a small pictorial: I picked another smut-less ear of Silver Queen to add in. Wow, it's good. You really don't even need to cook it. But I digress....

I just did a more thorough check and I found another one. This one has "whiter" fungus. I hope ALL my corn isn't doing this....but it's kinda fun to find something unexpected. Farmers around here would absolutely be devastated if this happened to their crop (yes, I know they spray so it doesn't happen) so I can't let it get out that I'm gonna eat it LOL. Tastes like a sweet corn mushroom. I like it.

Cool! How do you make that happen on purpose? I read that its a lot to do with how humid it is. Are you growing them in your green house? Any tips or cooking suggestions?

Dcarch, you scared me at first. Here is a closer up picture. Newman is keeping a close eye on it. He believes it is some kind of alien life form.

Yes. I'm going to try. If I die, I'll at least have tried something new.

I think so I asked on the huit. thread. I'm currently in google land so I can figure out what to do with it.

Found this ear of sweet corn in the garden last night. Is this huitlacoche? Sure looks like it to me......

Currant jelly?! .....or maybe Kerry needs a good swaddling......

Ooooh, Paul, I do love monkfish. Been a while since I've had any. We had fish sandwiches Wednesday night (in celebration of Sharknado 3 showing. Yes. I love me some Sharknado. So bad, it's good) Ann's wings the night before And last night a little shrimp and pasta

"Rats in sportcoats" We don't have chipmunks around here. I'm not sure why. Lots of this going on. Lots of picking. A lot of loss of counter space (I'm NOT complaining). Really good tomato year (so far). Okra plants are happy because the weather has gotten extremely hot and humid. Discovered this happened to one of my ears of sweet corn.

DYING to know what you think.

Welcome Charlie!

Thanks! It does look delicious. Is there any reason why one shouldn't peel the tomatoes? I'm not a peel fan.

Interesting. The waste elimination is good. As is the re-use factor. Does everyone use that organizer shown? Seems like it takes up a lot of room? It also greatly deters one from drinking straight from the jug.

Huh. I learn something new every day. Milk in a bag. I think KennethT. needs to market the spigot idea. No offense meant here, but that looks like a pain in the ass to deal with. I'd have milk all over the place

And, how do you pour it?

Liuzhou---I always forget about chicken livers. I made a bolognese a few years ago that used them and we really liked it. Thanks for the reminder. Your pasta looks great. FauxPas--Ohhhhh fresh peaches. YUM. Patrick--LOL, nothing at ALL wrong with buying it. LiamsAunt--I am going to steal your pasta fresca and your zoodles ideas. Looks SO good. Oh man, you guys are going to get sick of me waxing poetic about my tomatoes. But, damn, do I love a good 'mater. And okra. I thought of KayB while making and eating tonight. Fried okra and tomatoes. I need nothing else. I made a tuna pasta salad. My husband really likes this. I think it's about the only pasta salad that he ever requests. Fried up some bass And had a nice summer meal

I will never judge a tomato sandwich, but, I don't like cheese either...HOWEVER, I've never tried it. I need to point out that you're both missing the lettuce part.

Ohhhhh Patrick, this looks wonderful. Would you share your babaghanoush recipe? I'm going to have more ripe eggplants soon.

Did they both come with a hard boiled egg? I guess that's an egg?