{"id":1046,"date":"2010-07-02T17:29:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T21:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2010-07-02T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T21:30:15","slug":"tip-quick-corn-on-the-cob-for-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/02\/tip-quick-corn-on-the-cob-for-one\/","title":{"rendered":"TIP: Quick Corn on the Cob, for One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1047\" title=\"corn1\" src=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/corn1-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/corn1-300x228.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/corn1.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this household, I cook just for myself quite a lot, and though I love corn on the cob, I don&#8217;t usually cook it since it either requires a big pot of boiling water, or a grill.<\/p>\n<p>Recently (okay, the other day), I picked up some corn at the market and as I was doing so, spoke with a woman who was selecting her corn. \u00a0She and I got into a conversation on how to cook corn for one person &#8212; the microwave. \u00a0I have done this before &#8212; a bit of water on a plate, covered with microwavable plastic, and cooked for 3-4 minutes. \u00a0Her suggestion was just as easy &#8212; wrap the cob in a wet paper towel and cook for 3-4 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>This worked out fantastically. \u00a0I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ll be eating a lot more corn this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this household, I cook just for myself quite a lot, and though I love corn on the cob, I don&#8217;t usually cook it since it either requires a big pot of boiling water, or a grill. Recently (okay, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/02\/tip-quick-corn-on-the-cob-for-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[125,448,441,29],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corn","tag-tip","tag-tips","tag-vegetables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}