You Make Me So Very Happy, I'm So Glad You Came Into My Life

Juicy open-faced turkey cheeseburgers with baked garlicky fries. But the special guest was the first sweet corn of the season.

And sweet it was. I get all gooey inside just thinking of all the corn dishes I'm gonna make. Salads featuring corn. And salsas. I love mixing it in with my burger meat or veggies burgers. I love it whole and on the cob. I love it chunked in my chicken, zucchini and corn rice dish. Corn in my quesadillas is splendid!

If corn was a person, they would be super friendly and kind. It would say I have youthful skin. It would help me wash the dishes after dinner and make me hot tea without even having to ask.
If corn were clothing it would be a bright spring dress that looks good on me and doesn't show my flabby parts.
If corn was a bed it would be king-sized, centered in an empty room with a cool breeze and have firm but soft mattress with 300-count Egyptian cotton sheets newly laid upon it.

I love corn!!!

You Make Me So Very Happy

In the last couple of years that National Thai has been open here in Fort Greene, we've been blessed to get smokin' hot amazing dishes delivered for a very reasonable price. They even use these super sturdy plastic containers that I've kept and now reuse for all my leftovers. Got a whole set. But the very last time we ordered from them the curtain came crashing down. It wasn't bad, it still tasted good, but it wasn't spectacular. And they forgot my rice. Spectacular Thai food grabs you by the shirt collar and slaps you about the face until you're sure you're alive. It's invigorating. Your nose is running, you're breathing passages are cleared. It's restorative. Non-spectacular Thai is a dud firecracker. Like I said, it only happened once but it was a risk to order again and take the chance. But National did not disappoint tonight. And God bless 'em, it was a Monday when you can really benefit from anything that doesn't suck. Fireworks, slapping, the whole nine yards. The Pork and Pineapple Fried Rice was a dream and a real surprise. The Beef with Green Curry is the real super star. The Kang Kyo Whan Nuur. With just the right heat, lemongrass, coconut, curry. And the vegetables, the eggplant, plenty of bamboo shoots, carrots and peppers and finally the thin sliced beef. Thank you National Thai for coming through for us in our time of need.