Mmmm, recipe, please.
Maque Chou.
• 9 ears of corn, cut off kernels and milk the colb. About 6 cups of corn kernels. You can use frozen corn, but it’s not as good.
(to "milk the colb", take a spoon and turn it upside down, hold firmly and rake it down the colb that has had kernels cut off. You will pull the white milky residue in the kernel pockets out, which has lots of flavor).
• I medium onion diced fine,
• 3 stalks celery diced fine.
• Simmer with chicken stock (chicken broth in can is the same thing)
• later add a couple of table spoons of real butter.
• Salt and black pepper to taste. Do not overdo the seasoning; you want to taste CORN in this dish.
Put 3 tablespoons olive oil in large sauce pan, add the corn kernels and heat the corn on medium high heat. This breaks down the starch in the corn and makes the flavor sweeter. Cook about 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Then put the corn back in the dish it came from.
Put 3 tablespoons olive oil in the sauce pan, add the onion and celery which has been diced, and sauté till the vegetables are soft, about 5 – 10 minutes on medium high heat.
Add the corn back to the sauce pan. Add chicken stock to a level about 1/3 the depth of the corn, stir it up so all the corn is wet. Add salt and black pepper to taste (not too much, it can kill the wonderful taste of the corn). Cook on medium heat for 10 minutes, then add 2 tablespoons real butter and cook another 10 minutes.
Done. It makes a very nice side dish.
Optional: If you get adventurous, you can turn the side dish into a complete meal:
• You can add shrimp (about 1.0 - 1.5 pounds) the last 10 minutes,
• or lump crab meat (or you can add a little lump crab meat to the shrimp above),
• or go to the grocery and get a cooked rotisserie chicken and pull the meat off the chicken and add it the last 10 minutes of cooking.
This is an old family recipe. I have tried others that I found on the internet, but this is my mother's and I have settled on this. Sometimes you just can't improve on Mom's!
Early season corn is more tender and sweeter.