Last spring I ordered an odd variety of corn – golf ball corn to be precise. In the Eden Seeds catalogue it says:
Beautiful diamond shaped kernels, pops bright white, vigorous plant yielding 3 to 4 cobs each up to 4cm.
We planted the seeds, and despite the corn not doing so well (possibly due to total abandonment) we still got about 20 small roundish corn cobs. We hung the cobs to dry and then put them in a container in the kitchen, where they stayed all through autumn and winter, until now.
The kids asked for pop corn and I knew there was none of the shop bought stuff in the cupboard (by the way, you can’t beat a $2 packet of pop corn that makes buckets of quick easy healthy snack!) so on a whim I told them if they could get the kernels off the cob we’d see if this corn would pop.
Three sets of little hands and ten minutes later we had a big container of little white corn kernels. Into the pot they went, a little oil, a little heat, lid on….. then…. pop pop pop pop pop… POPCORN!
I know it’s kind of corny (ha ha) but I’m rather proud that we’ve been snacking on our very own, home grown, home shucked (is that the right word?), home cooked, pop corn.
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That is fantastic, Kate- how cool!
Marvellous.
Did it taste better than any you have ever had before?
I love the little berry shaped cobs. We’ve planted popcorn in our garden this year, but I think they are traditional shaped cobs.
I hope ours is as successful as yours.
You should be so proud of that – that’s fantastic. We have only tried growing corn once, but I think we left it too long before harvesting because they were all shrivelly. Must try again one day!! xxx
I have never seen such a thing. Very impressive to make your own popcorn.
I am SERIOUSLY impressed. Really! That is a fantastic example of kids participating in the whole process of growing, harvesting, preparing, cooking and eating home grown produce.
When I met my husband he had never even made popcorn himself from the bought kernels (only the commercial microwave popcorn stuff) – he was amazed to watch it in the saucepan (fortunately I had a glass lid)! He would be most impressed by this – perhaps the small boy and I should plant some too. Well done!!
Wow! Who knew that popcorn could be so much fun!
That’s awesome. I’d wondered how those corn kernels were prepared.