'Tis the Season

Corn for Two

James Kochalka - Corn on the Cob 

Verse 1

"I don't work for a living

I don't need a job,

I'm just doin' my own thing

Eating corn on the cob"

Just Peachy!

The sun is out, a nice breeze drying the air and grounds and it is a good day here. We took a ride out to the farm produce store and saw all the damage done by the flooding. It was awful and people are trying their hardest to clean up. It will take a while.

We brought home corn that the Mister picked out of the bin as the owner was unloading his container straight from the field. Some was saved from the floods. The cantaloupe we bought was also one that was on high ground so a few were spared. Best of all, our favorite - VERY favorite peaches, the Lorings were big and beautiful and we bought them too, along with the small basket.

One was eaten at lunch - we shared it. Let me tell you, they are:
#1- the easiest to pit (a simple cut and twist will open for easy removal)
#2- the easiest to peel without blanching ( I peeled with my fingers!)
#3- the tastiest (perfectly sweet - texture-wise, not mushy, not pithy, not hard)
#4- the juiciest (if you were to bite into one, the juice would run off of your chin and down your arm and drip to the floor from your elbow!
#5- the most flavorful (the peachiest flavor of all peaches)
#6- very fragrant, and my home smells like peaches!

Quick! Before they are gone into pies, cobblers, shortcake, dried,  I thought to get photos so I did and then couldn't choose which I liked best. Here you go.....

Click on image to wish you were peachy too!

And...I still have some frozen and dried I hoarded from last year!  

Missed Out

I watched a TV program Bizzare Foods With Arthur Zimmern last evening that I haven't often stuck with previously, due to not enjoying views of the stuff he tastes and eats. This broadcast was about food from the areas of Louisiana and Maine and Florida.  Now I have been called a "foodie" but now I know I'm not true to the name. I also now know that after watching this show, I've missed out eating both delicacies and plain fare from these places. The saddest part for me is that I absolutely love seafood - any kind, mostly shellfish - but haven't even begun to taste 1/10th of what is out there. First of all most of what I've enjoyed was not even fresh! FRESH is the word that kept popping up when Zimmer was describing his experience eating the lobster, crab, shrimp, crayfish, scallops, oysters, clams, mussels and snails. I have tasted all of those. The only really fresh I have eaten right from the sea is a lobster. We went through Maine when traveling on a motorcycle trip to Canada. We stopped and ate fresh lobster at a shack on a bay. Once.

I would love to try octopus, squid, whelk, eel, abalone and more. FRESH lobster, crab, shrimp, crayfish, scallops, oysters, clams, mussels and snails would send me to heaven. Fish other than shellfish is favored but usually isn't fresh except the fluke and red drum the Mister caught in SC when surf-fishing. Crappies, bluegill, sunfish, catfish and bass from our lake were tasty too. We once even ate snapping turtle that my brother's wife caught, the fellows killed, and my mom cooked.

Soooooo I think I've decided to be happy that there are eating places fairly nearby that still have some sea dishes I have access to without real freshness.