Or: There's Nothing Like Growing, Harvesting, and Eating Your Own Food!
Corn takes a lot of time and resources to produce, but there is nothing quite like sinking your teeth into a helpless row of juicy, buttery and garlic dripping kernels of starch ecstasy. So, yes, I grow I few rows of corn each year.
Ever since I read @aunt-deb's Hoosier style roast corn post, I have been anticipating my corn harvest like a bunch of Game of Thrones fans awaiting the next season. I had this vision of plucking some ripe, plump ears of sweetness off of the stalks, soaking them overnight, and roasting the daylights out of them in my outdoor oven that I built earlier this summer.
Nature had other plans.
To say that our surrounding landscape is dry is like saying that Houston is only a little bit on the wet side right now. Understatement city! We have been under an extreme fire danger warning for a LONG time now, the air is reminiscent of a young adult dystopian novel setting, the sun has been blood red from smoke haze for days, and any idea of building a fire is so high on the stupid scale that only a few humans have actually engaged in flame construction. Thankfully.
So, until it rains, no roasted in my outdoor oven corn enjoyment for us. I think I will try Aunt Deb's method on my gas grill, but tonight I just cooked my corn the way my grandma always did, boiled it for a bit.
To say that the ear that I inhaled was corn-tastic would be doing it an injustice. It's like eating an entire mish-mash of summer in one blissful bite. Sigh.....
Tonight I kept it simple, for I find that fresh, homegrown food doesn't often need a lot of adornment. I just whipped up some melted garlic butter, brushed it on my corn, salt, peppered, parmesan, and paprika dusted my ear, and went to kernel-stuck-in-my-dratted-teeth land.
You'll have to pardon my lack of exuded corn on the cob ingesting excited-ness. I am still recovering from fair and I had a co-worker quit and another have emergency family health stuff, so lots and lots of labor makes for a deflated 
Yum.
I've had a hankering for some corn with cilantro-lime butter for most of the summer, so I am going to visit that flavor town, but honestly, I'm open to any recipe or corn eating method suggestion from ya'll. What are some of your favorite flavor accoutrements to add to corn on the cob? Lay it on me like buttah on my corn!
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