Erin's Log Day 2: Confession

Day 2 of the Diet of Corn is well underway, and I have a confession: I am tired of eating corn. However, a personal breakthrough has been made when, inspired by Larry's paper bag popcorn, I made some myself. I have found this to be quite satisfactory. In a separate bowl I put a little bit of water and mixed it with garlic salt and then put it in the paper bag after the popcorn was popped and mixed it all around. The result is a few pieces of garlicy salty popcorn that are a bit soggy (which takes away the staleness!) and the rest tasting oh so delicious. I am glad that I have found this, because as of last night the thought of eating corn made me want to puke. So perhaps I will subsist off of popcorn for awhile until that goes away, or I'm hungry enough to find it appetizing.

I will carry on. I will not let the Diet of Corn down.

I also have nothing to add to the corndietpoop blog as of yet.

Erin's Log Day 1: Corn Shopping, etc.

I have returned from corn shopping. I took my little sister with me to Earth Fare and while I perused the corn on the cob selection (10 cobs for $1.60--take THAT Larry!) she chanted the word "corn" for the entire shopping trip. I also picked up some yellow corn grits (ingredients: ground corn), an on sale can of corn, and this ridiculously expensive container of organic freeze dried corn. My plan is to use the grits and freeze dried corn to make my corn patties, and maybe a soup. We'll see how that goes.

When I returned home, I looked up "Corn" in the Joy of Cooking and got some good ideas. They had directions for oven roasted corn that I tried out. I made a sauce of lemon juice, garlic salt, and a bit of oregano and brushed it on the cobs, wrapped them in tin foil, and cooked them in the oven at 450 degrees for 8 minutes, turning every so often. It was pretty good, I would cook it for longer next time. The lemon juice really added that *something* that butter (or "butter" as it would be in my case) usually fills.

So far, so good!