I coated it liberally with sea salt and let it sit on the counter for about 30 minutes, rinsed it and dried it off–then heated some olive oil in my cast iron skillet–cooked for 4 minutes on each side, covered it with foil while my corn on the cob was nuking-( corn on the cob...
which is why I am pretty strict about where I buy my meat, especially chicken and pork which I willonlybuy from F&B, because I think the intensive farming of those two animals is worse than farming of grassfed cattle and lamb that – in ...
Nicola:Even though it was a desert, the native people were growing corn, squash, chiles, and beans, as well as tobacco and cotton. They'd figured out how to make the most of the little water they had, and they'd bred crop varieties that thrived in the heat and the dry. Cynthia:An...
which if you look at the number one ingredient it’s corn syrup. Like, it just makes my blood boil. Like, my grandma’s 90 years old. She doesn’t need to be eating, you know, trash. It’s basically, you know, it’s industrial food waste. She doesn’t need to be eating that...
After we got married, $SPOUSE took over the cooking (mostly; I’ll do prep work and such), and we’ll use canned veggies for salads. I have to stay away from high vitamin K veggies, so it’s usually beans (green, black or kidney) and corn. I miss fresh spinach, but it would ...
Then it’s early to bed, and the best sleep I have had in years (interrupted only by the odd bit of thumping and shrieking from a wombat rumpus under the house once or twice, and one night, the sad moans of some yarded cattle down the way), then up early to start again, sitting...
Recently I was jolted by Joyce Carol Oates’ terrifying novella The Corn Maiden, which similarly moves with swift, compelling inevitability towards resolution – and then takes a jarring left turn and as one reviewer said, “We find that the true ending lies somewhere unexpected, and that it ma...
Recently I was jolted by Joyce Carol Oates’ terrifying novella The Corn Maiden, which similarly moves with swift, compelling inevitability towards resolution – and then takes a jarring left turn and as one reviewer said, “We find that the true ending lies somewhere unexpected, and that it ma...
Rejoices Profound and StillAs we stared beyond the windows thereOver all the gardensThat have never beenAnd will never grow againHow longHow longThe shining winking starsThe clouds too highSo highPointing to some final starThe dull face of the skyAnd the sound of the callingOf the distant ...
Recently I was jolted by Joyce Carol Oates’ terrifying novella The Corn Maiden, which similarly moves with swift, compelling inevitability towards resolution – and then takes a jarring left turn and as one reviewer said, “We find that the true ending lies somewhere unexpected, and that it ma...