{"id":3938,"date":"2014-10-16T09:55:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T17:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2014-10-16T12:47:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T20:47:19","slug":"gams-of-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/archives\/3938","title":{"rendered":"Gams Of Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s true. The ears of corn are gone from stores.<\/p>\n

Wait, are you wondering the same thing I am?<\/p>\n

Why “ears” of corn? Why not hands of corn, or chins of corn. Buttocks of corn?<\/p>\n

The ancients were indeed a mysterious people. And then came Google:<\/p>\n

\u201cEar<\/b>\u201d comes from the ancient word \u201cahs,\u201d which meant \u201chusk of corn<\/b>.\u201d In English, sometimes the ear<\/b> also is referred to as a \u201ccob\u201d or a \u201cpole.\u201d The ear<\/b> is the spiked part of the corn<\/b> plant that contains kernels, the delicious yellow tidbits we love to nibble on in the summertime.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ah hah — that explains it! Now I know what my New Englander friends were trying to tell me the winter of my visit — “Cahver yah ahs, Rahd, it’s cahld outside.”<\/p>\n

So, what is a husband to do? Having been charged by Happy Wife with dinner prep for Tuesday evening, the store shelves bereft of Ahs<\/em> of Corn, yet still desperately wanting to prepare her the grilled corn recipe from this one:<\/p>\n

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Speaking of delicious tidbits to nibble on in summertime<\/em>. Had the ancients been introduced to Giada we would not now be referring to them as ears<\/em> of corn. KnowWhatImean? <nyuk nyuk><\/p>\n

Anyway, where was I. Oh right…<\/p>\n

I went to my grocer’s freezer section and purchased frozen Ahs<\/em> of corn. Brilliant!<\/p>\n

I’m serious. Giada’s grilled corn (w\/Parmesan) recipe<\/a> is the bomb . Or, as my great nephew would opine: Amaze Balls.<\/p>\n

Behold my rendition: Giada’s grilled cream corn w\/Parmesan, spice-rubbed, grilled Alaskan halibut, oven-crisped prosciutto and an arc of cucumber:<\/p>\n

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Plus California Cabernet, vintage ’12.<\/p>\n

How’d I do?<\/p>\n

(Reminder: certain images on this blog may be embiggened by clicking on them).<\/p>\n

What else, what else…<\/p>\n

Oh right, the weather.<\/p>\n

Unseasonably warm. Not quite warm enough for this anymore…<\/p>\n

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(Whoa! Gams<\/em> of corn. Am I right?).<\/p>\n

…but pretty warm. Like upper 40s by day. Yesterday it reached 52. During our daily walk at the park yesterday Harry was briefly beaten up by Otis, a somewhat spastic Rottweiller mix with a bad temper. No harm done. Like I said, it was brief. By the time I got close to intervene they’d already separated. Seconds later Otis’s cherub-faced upright came wheeling by on her mountain bike, oblivious, it seemed, to what had gone down — “Come pretty Otis, come!”<\/p>\n

Yeah, I got your pretty Otis<\/em> right here, girl.<\/p>\n

Mood: edgy.<\/p>\n

Not much else of note going on. I am<\/del> We are anxiously awaiting to hear on the status of a certain application<\/em> I’ve submitted. Prefer to leave you wondering at this time. Once we know, especially if the outcome is favorable to us, you’ll know.<\/p>\n

Bye for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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