Another use for leftover sweet corn cobs is as a sweetener for vegetable stock. Using a recipe I found online, I mixed a pot full of sweet corn cobs with onion, thyme, pepper, carrots, garlic, celery and etc. These were boiled and then simmered for about two hours. I made two big stock pots of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sweet corn’
12 Aug
Sweet Corn Cob Jelly
As I mentioned in my last post, I canned sweet corn this week. I have done this for the last 2 years as well, and I always hated composting well over half the weight of the corn that I had bought. I just didn’t really know what to do with all those cobs. They really [...]
1 Oct
Corn Cob Stock – Why didn’t you tell me?
Apparently a delicious veggie stock can be made from the sweet corn cobs left over after canning fresh sweet corn. I’m a bit sad that I didn’t know this much sooner. Now I just need to remember for next year. Another recipe.
25 Jun
Community Garden Plot
I haven’t shown you my community garden plot because I never remember to bring the camera. So here are some blurry cell phone pictures. At the front right corner is an improvised trellis trying to support 9 tomato plants and already sagging in the middle. The rest of the space contains alternating hills of either [...]
17 May
May 2009 Backyard Garden
Gardening by numbers Bed 1 is my wife’s herb garden with an 8 foot row of cucumbers along the fence. Just seeded this weekend. Bed 2 has strawberries, three kinds of peppers and a couple eggplants I got at the farmer’s market this weekend. Bed 3 is seeded with sweet corn on the left [...]
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