Dinner’s On The Table – Healthy Specialty Foods & Recipes

I’ve been a bit lazy with posts this summer, so I decided to kick off September with a new survey.  Who doesn’t like a nice piece of fruit?  We’ve picked just about everything on trees this summer and we want to know if you’ve been to the orchard.  Do you have a strawberry patch in your back yard, or blueberry bushes.  You get the idea.  The link will bring you to my newest survey at Survey Monkey.  Thank’s for participating!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=nm_2bGL4cL95O0POo_2fSlW5ag_3d_3d">Click Here to take survey

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I want to thank everyone who has completed the survey.  If you haven’t participated yet, here is the link to it…

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=gREKCuBx6C1_2b_2fpdYvY0k2Q_3d_3d">Click  

And now for the fun part!

Since I allowed multiple answers to most questions, they don’t total 100%.  (So far 16 people have responded.  I’ll update when there are more responses)

Most people (50% each) either grill their corn in foil or boil it.  Next comes grilled in husk (37.5%) followed by nuked (31.3%), steamed (18.8%) and grilled naked (12.5%)

Next comes what do you put on your corn.  Butter is the big winner so far (62.5%) Most people also salt their corn (50%)  Margarine and pepper and the write in answer of nuthin tied at 25% and 3 of you like fresh herbs on your corn!

My favorite answer to how do you apply butter is fingers, but most of us use a knife (56.3%) and fork (18.8%)

13 of us (81.3%) use our hands to hole an ear of corn, 5 people (31.3%) use plastic corn holders and only one person eats it off one of those plastic corn plates!

A really good friend comments on how I eat sweet corn, so this next one really interested me.  9 people eat typewriter style (56.3%), 5 choose the spiral technique (31.3%) and 3 people take random bites (18.8%) (I like nice neat typewriter rows)

I’m dying to find some of the varieties people listed as favorites.  Salt and Pepper, Butter and Sugar, and Two Tone are listed a few times.  Hudson Valley sweet corn, Silver Queen, Senneca Cheif, Shoe Peg, Queen Ann andSloughhouse Corn in Sacramento.

I’m ashamed to say that most people don’t lick their fingers (68.8%), I’m a licker and proud of it! 5 people admitted to being lickers and one admitted to licking when nobody is looking!

Half of us usually don’t have any leftovers.  I don’t know if we only cook up what we plan on eating, or if it’s so good, we can’t stand to put it in the fridge.  5 people have it for lunch and one person uses it in salads.  What a great idea.  My hubby and I are the only ones who feed it to chickens (They LOVE IT)

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Over the course of time, I’ve noticed that everyone seems to have their own way to enjoy an ear of corn.  Now I’m not just talking about butter, margarine, salt and pepper.  I mean down to the nitty gritty! 

How do you sweet corn????

Boiled, steamed, grilled naked, grilled in foil, grilled in husks, etc

Butter, margarine, compound butter (what do you put in your compound butter?), salt, pepper, garlic, hot pepper, roasted pepper, naked, etc…

Do you use corn holders, bare hands, hold the husk, etc…

What is your prefered style of eating?  Do you spiral around the ear, eat typewriter style in even rows down the ear, take random bites

Do you lick your fingers????????

I think you get the idea.  Don’t forget to include your favorite variety of sweet corn.

This link will take you to the survey

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