How's the sweet corn in South Carolina?

lucas80

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Clearly it cannot compare to the magnificent sweet corn we enjoy in Iowa, but on a scale of 1-10? Any regional ways to cook and enjoy it? I assume you microwave it like a pro?
 

TJ8869

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We grind it up for grits.
I like virtually all culinary manifestations of corn, but I will never understand why people eat grits. Many years ago I was at a diner somewhere in the South. The breakfast meal I ordered came with choice of grits or hash browns. The waitress didn’t even ask me if I wanted grits. She asked me how I wanted my grits. I politely requested hash browns instead and she looked at me like she’d just caught me in bed with her daughter or something.
 

PalmettoTiger1

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Clearly it cannot compare to the magnificent sweet corn we enjoy in Iowa, but on a scale of 1-10? Any regional ways to cook and enjoy it? I assume you microwave it like a pro?

Sweet corn in SC is really great but a mid June corn for me as worms get bad in the summer heat

I prefer it grilled in the husk.

option 2 is butter and milk in boiling water for 8-10 minutes

getting ready. To plant some squash and cukes this weekend along with winter crops as Aug 1 triggers get stuff in the ground for winter crops
 
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kidmike41

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I like virtually all culinary manifestations of corn, but I will never understand why people eat grits. Many years ago I was at a diner somewhere in the South. The breakfast meal I ordered came with choice of grits or hash browns. The waitress didn’t even ask me if I wanted grits. She asked me how I wanted my grits. I politely requested hash browns instead and she looked at me like she’d just caught me in bed with her daughter or something.
Most people make it really bad. I cook mine with chicken broth. Give that a try sometime
 

Aardvark86

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Probably better than the shrimp in Iowa.

grilled in the husk

in separate news, today’s project is homemade peach ice cream.
 

PalmettoTiger1

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Most people make it really bad. I cook mine with chicken broth. Give that a try sometime

People overlook adding spices to the grits water

garlic gives it kick

there are lots of other stuff to add

do a google search of what compliments corn and add it to the water

on cheese I hear Goat cheese is great
 
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I like virtually all culinary manifestations of corn, but I will never understand why people eat grits. Many years ago I was at a diner somewhere in the South. The breakfast meal I ordered came with choice of grits or hash browns. The waitress didn’t even ask me if I wanted grits. She asked me how I wanted my grits. I politely requested hash browns instead and she looked at me like she’d just caught me in bed with her daughter or something.
Pic of her adult aged daughter?
 
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