I was just reading the comments to my last post, and happened to scroll down to the recipe, and realized I left out the all-important step of cutting the corn off the cob (and throwing out the cobs).

Some of you will be thinking, “What kind of a moron does she think I am?”, while others will be thinking, “Ohhhhhh, I just figured, you know, raw foods and all, you just throw it all in.”

That’s the thing with cooking. Or in this case, un-cooking. It’s interesting what people will and won’t take as obvious. When I was watching the demonstrator who sold me my Vita-Mix, at one point he made a smoothie and just threw in THE ENTIRE STRAWBERRY. With the green tops. I nearly lost a hand trying to reach up and stop that berry from hitting those blades. “Calm down, calm down!” Joe soothed, “It will all get blended! It’s all okay!” He probably thought, if anyone needs a smoothie, it’s this woman.

I was in awe of his calm under these circumstances. It was completely unimagineable to me to do such a thing. A few minutes later he handed me the most delicious fruit smoothie I ever tasted. I was so surprised by this, that if he’d then gone on to make corn chowder by throwing in an entire cob of corn, it’s likely I wouldn’t have asked any questions.

Of couse some ideas don’t change. It’s worth noting that to this day, I’ll drink a smoothie made almost entirely of kale, but if I decide to add a few strawberries to the mix, I’ll cut off the green tops. Go figure.