Corn

Seriously who doesn't love corn? This past Monday, corn was our Monday Supper Club secret ingredient and I have to say it was another success.

We first started off with the Corn Bread with kernels inside. This was surprisingly tasty, although we should have probably put it in the oven with higher temperature to achieve that gold brown finish on top.



Our second dish was the corn chowder. Our broth was made out of vegetable stocks (celery and onions) and contained chunks of potato and bacon. The cream acted as a thickening agent. Naturally, this was another success although we later thought it would have been even better if we had saved some of the bacon later to sprinkle on top, that and some green onions.



Our third dish (oh my by this time I was quite full) was corn souffle. I was asked by one of the Monday Supper Club members the meaning of the word souffle. Basically, what makes something a souffle? According to wikipedia (my trusted source for everything) the word souffle is a past participle of the french verb souffler which means to blow up. Ahh the french, always make everything seems so elegant. Over hear, anything that is blown up will be either terrorist or fat! Anyway, I digressed the souffle had a nice golden brown top, unfortunately it didn't really rise since the oven was opened. between the egg whites and the cream of corn, the souffle was slightly sweet. Next time I would put in some cheese and bacon into the mixture so it would be corny and cheesy. Har har.. Lesson learned though, leave the oven alone if the souffle is already in.




Q: So why is it that you should not make dinner plans with corn?
A: Because corn flakes!

Sorry I couldn't resist... I had to go through a maize of jokes just to find that one.. .Maize.. get it? Anyway, for dessert we made blueberries cornflakes parfait. It was a nice light treat and I also learned that it sucks to be a single man. All that beating for that amount of frothy cream... not worth it :P Our cornflakes parfait consisted of layer of cornflakes on top of fresh beaten whipped cream and then blueberries sauce and repeat 1 more time.



The entire meal cost less than $30... Enjoy!

Cheers,

- The Monday Supper Club