I forgot to finish with cream, that was the original idea.
There is still more than double this amount left. The whole time I was thinking about including masa harina but I wanted the sweet corn flavor to predominate before I did that, also chipotle.
At one point the corn cob was swimming in toasted butter and steamed up with dry vermouth then chicken stock, my own, and covered.
I've had potato with corn soup. Never Sweet potato with corn soup.
ReplyDeleteWe called, or I supposed it's still called that way over there, called sweet potato - batata.
We buried the sweet potato in the hot cinders of a fogon - a fogon is a fire wood stove. As the fire wood burns it becomes a hot ash where you can bury unpeeled sweet potato. Once its done its called Batata azada.
Batata Azada is such a common delicacy, over there, it became a metaphor. the act of azando batata is a metaphor.
ReplyDeleteI've notice some places offer sweet potato fries and regular potato fries.
ReplyDeleteI get the sweet potatoe fries when I can instead of the regular fries.
Lem, a friend's mum is from Boston but oddly, idiosyncratically, pronounces potato as buhtayduh. It is a very lazy way to say the word and irritates her son, my friend, who asks her, "Mum."
ReplyDelete"Huh?"
Enunciating with exactitude, "How many 'B's are there in the word 'potato'?" She'd glare at him and grimace at his riding her on her speech, but it was a particular thing that bugged him.
I wanted it to burn a little bit to make it blacken outside and caramelize inside and give color but the aluminum foil protected it.
ReplyDeleteAlso I wanted my corn to be better but I waited too long. Bothe those could be done on a grill.
Also cream is going to be great with this and so will chipotle. And so will masa harina.
I read half a dozen recipes for cream of corn soup, sweet corn soup. corn bisque, so many used frozen corn and the ingredients were all over the place. When you look at images, there does not seem to be a standard thing for the soup.
I like one photo that appeared to have melted cheese on top and thought, "Hey, I like that a lot." But it turned out to be chunks of sweet potato, not melted and toasted cheese on top. But I did it anyway because I still liked the idea.
My onions are on top instead of inside. And I read in a magazine that this is a scientific fact, a large % of people cannot stand cilantro. Their taste buds interpret it as soap.