Final week, I advised you I used to be in full tomato mode. Which is true. However it’s not the entire story.
My different summer season love is contemporary candy corn, which I discover so irresistible that I drag house way over I can carry after I depart the market. I’ll in all probability find yourself in bodily remedy, however I’ve to have my corn.
Tomatoes and corn are wonderful companions, and I make a number of salads that incorporate each. However generally you simply need that corn — on the cob, in pancakes, in pasta, in soup and in all manner of desserts. I’m infatuated with sweet corn ice cream. I scramble corn kernels with eggs for a pleasingly monochromatic meal.
This week, I’ve picked 5 corn recipes for you. And to everybody who wrote in final week to inform me I forgot to incorporate BLTs within the e-newsletter: I promise, I didn’t neglect BLTs. I’d by no means. The BLT is the queen of sandwiches, and my sandwich of alternative. However generally you don’t have bacon at house, otherwise you don’t really feel like frying something, otherwise you don’t need (or eat) meat, or it’s too scorching a day and also you simply need to slather the mayo on the bread, layer on the tomatoes and sprinkle all of it with a bathe of salt. At any price, I gained’t make this error once more.
Now inform me how you’re feeling about corn, and the way you’re cooking it. I’m dearemily@nytimes.com, and it’s good to listen to from you.
1. Grilled Chicken With Tomatoes and Corn
You understand how you’re alleged to let meat relaxation for a number of minutes when it comes off the grill? (Should you didn’t know that, now you do.) I normally put it on a slicing board, however now I’ll let it sit on high of a mattress of uncooked candy corn and sliced tomatoes, à la Ali Slagle, so the drippings from the meat can taste every thing else on the plate. Right here, the meat is chili-rubbed hen thighs, juicy and scrumptious.
2. Savory Corn Fritters
I like corn muffins and fritters, particularly when the kernels are left intact (not puréed), which is what Vallery Lomas does right here. You might serve these as a aspect, however I’d eat them as a predominant, perhaps topped with eggs and undoubtedly with bitter cream or plain yogurt. Watch the warmth on the range — too excessive, and your kernels will explode proper out of the pan.
3. Creamy Corn Pasta With Basil
This can be a canonical New York Occasions Cooking recipe, and I can’t not share it with you right here, though it requires a blender and I actually attempt to keep away from that for you on weeknights. It’s by Melissa Clark, and it’s beloved for a motive.
4. Cod and Corn With Old-Bay Butter
Recipes like this one allow you to eat such as you’re on the seaside, even once you’re nowhere close to the seaside. Kay Chun’s good, one-pot seafood dinner makes use of fish, corn and Outdated Bay to take you there.
