Corn
Recipes
Shrimp over creamed corn, and rather a lot of feta
Corn simmered soft in cream and butter, then blitzed until chunky and used the way you would use grits.
Charred corn and halloumi panzanella with chili crisp
One bowl, mostly made in the morning, so the cook can sit down with the guests.
Dan dan noodles, served cold on purpose
The sesame and chile sauce is bossy enough to work as a dressing, so the noodles never need to be hot.
Shrimp boil with the potatoes already stuffed
One pot, no colander manners and a pierogi doing the job of every boiled potato you have ever fished out of the bottom.
Tostadas waterproofed with cheese
Melt the cheese onto the tortilla before anything wet touches it. That layer is a gasket, and it is why these are still crisp at the last bite.
Pierogies in ancho butter
Ancho is not chipotle. No smoke at all, just dried fruit and a slow warmth, and it stains butter red.
Five ears of corn and very little else
The onions go pink in lemon, the tomatoes stay raw, and a small pan of garlic oil is poured over the lot.
Ditalini, corn and a great deal of miso
Half the corn charred and half of it raw, held together by miso and thick yogurt, in a bowl you eat with a spoon.
Chipotle chicken rice bake
Built on cooked rice and a rotisserie bird, which is not cheating if nobody sees.
Shrimp bowls in a green goddess mood
Fifteen minutes, one pan and a dressing with enough body to stay put.
Gnocchi baked with corn and a goat cheese heart
A whole round of goat cheese goes in last and collapses into the sauce.
Pierogies baked under smoky sausage
Everything goes in cold and comes out molten. No stirring, no supervision.
Hot sausage and sweet corn pasta
Corn cut straight from the cob, and hot sauce stirred in at the very end.
A lasagna with a short fuse
The golden lasagna's wilder sister, all smoky sausage and charred poblano with a chipotle streak, cooled by a lime drizzle.
Sweet corn campanelle with miso butter
Corn three ways in one pot, then the fix the original never knew it needed: white miso in the butter and a lemon squeezed over the lot.
Chicken and creamed corn, cobs and all
The cobs go in the pot. That is the whole secret.
Sheet-pan quesadillas, six at once
The whole batch crisped in the oven while you stand around doing nothing.
Feta under the broiler with corn and shishitos
Feta blistered molten under the broiler, corn underneath, pickled onion cutting through.
Corn bake with ideas above its station
Too soft to slice, too rich to be bread. Bring a spoon.
Chicken tamale pie from the church-supper canon
A Jiffy-box cornbread drowned in enchilada sauce and piled with chicken. Zero shame, full flavor.
Corn salad that skips the vinegar
Raw corn straight off the cob, seasoned by the tomatoes and nothing else.
Featured
Tomato sauce so simple you'll die
Marcella's three ingredients, one of which you bin, and a fourth she never sanctioned.
A ricotta pasta that begs to be messed with
Stir it in a bowl while the water boils, then fiddle until it tastes like yours.
Gnocchi baked with corn and a goat cheese heart
A whole round of goat cheese goes in last and collapses into the sauce.