tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904044147658632374.post8438297265727979141..comments2023-10-22T05:31:07.024-04:00Comments on A Foodie's Quest: Let's Get Corny!Dahlia ChanTanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09761052647377223709noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904044147658632374.post-22610196939409470432010-08-09T20:04:36.480-04:002010-08-09T20:04:36.480-04:00I found some organic corn in the market a few days...I found some organic corn in the market a few days ago. (It's very hard to grow corn organically on a commercial scale, as I'm sure you know.) Delicious!<br /><br />And if you and your readers will permit a brief Montreal wildlife report to accompany this brief market report, today on the bike path the strangest thing: not the usual groundhog skittering across my path, but a . . . wait for it . . . great, huge, lumbering snapping turtle. Think shell the size of a medium/large pizza, with a neck as thick as my forearm. Amazing!Tolderolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904044147658632374.post-87502904743227042972010-08-06T14:19:18.433-04:002010-08-06T14:19:18.433-04:00Good question... I'm not sure. The problem wit...Good question... I'm not sure. The problem with boiling vegetables is that it can lead to the leaching out of nutrients. In some cases - i.e. wild vegetables - this leaching is necessary to rid the vegetable of toxins, in others, quite unnecessary. <br />However, in the case of corn, I find that it spends so little time in the water anyway (barely 5 minutes if it's fresh picked) that it probably makes little difference. In fact, the last time I tried steaming corn, it took much longer to cook than boiling it, so I think the nutritional advantages of steaming gets cancelled out. <br />Either way, if you really want to reap the full benefit of cooking vegetables in or out of water, just drink the cooking water! Use the liquid as a stock, or do as my parents: drink it straight out of the pot.Dahlia ChanTanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09761052647377223709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904044147658632374.post-1024073574936946372010-08-05T13:35:03.625-04:002010-08-05T13:35:03.625-04:00Is there any nutritional benefit to steaming corn ...Is there any nutritional benefit to steaming corn rather than boiling it, the way one would a green vegetable?Tol de Rolnoreply@blogger.com