Corn Casserole

I promised y'all a great time, and here I am. I'm grating it. I was up in the valley this morning looking for corn, tomatoes, and squash, and you can see that I'm grating this corn on a little corn grater. It's just a wonderful little invention. I can't imagine trying to do creamed corn with a knife, because you've got to get in there and actually get the cream and the milk out of that corn

And it has a little blade right here that actually busts the tops off

And then in the center, it's got little arms that stick up

And then down here, on this blade, it actually removes the milk

You know, I've spent many a summer as a young bride putting up creamed corn for the winter

And it really is a job, but you just have to do this with all this beautiful fresh corn coming in

and just rotate your corn just like I'm doing, and you can turn him upside down

and get every drop of that milk out of him. Look at that wonderful corn

And like I said, there is no way you can do this with a knife. So we're just going to keep going until we have enough for supper

You might want to wait and make creamed corn when hubby's home so that he can lend you some of his manpower

And by the way, don't wear any good clothes on cream corn day

You see I gonna be polka by the time we get through All right we all through having our great time now So we going to take our corn and put it into a baking dish

Now, if this corn had been a little on the dry side, you could always just simply add a little bit of milk, giving you more liquid

But we've got so much juice in this corn, I think it's going to be fine

The only way you can really mess a fresh cream corn dish up is by getting old corn

If you've got to hold the old corn, it's going to be dry, and it's really not going to be any good

So if I were you, I wouldn't even waste my time and labor on trying to prepare it

Now, I'm fixing to taste this corn and see how sweet it is. This is so delicious

All I'm going to add to this is straight butter. At home, when I'm doing this dish, this is the only food besides a baked potato

that I will sometimes cook in a microwave. You can take this corn now and cover it in a plastic wrap

put it in the oven for about four minutes, take it out, stir it, put it back in for about four more minutes

and you've got creamed corn. But I'm going to stick this in our regular oven today

And we're going to cook it for about 10 minutes. Then we're going to go into the oven

and we're going to stir it up because it will begin to cook faster around the edges than in the center

So we're going to keep stirring until that corn is evenly cooked. And it doesn't take much

much actually just heating it completely through and we'll be ready