Quarter Baked Corn recipe

 

I found this recipe via Youtube, via Tiktok and it looked easy enough for me to make :)

The recipe I saw instructed us to season these corns with salt, peppers, and various spices (of your choice) 

Season them with salt, peppers and various spices along with olive oil and put them in the oven for 20 minutes at 430F, 220C.

This was very easy to make, the hardest step of this recipe is hacking the corn into quarters... 

The recipe called for a DIY spice... so I chose this steak seasoning from The Keg which worked very well since it contained everything I needed and more :). The highlights of this seasoning are garlic powder, onion powder, salt, red pepper and dill seed.

This is the olive oil I used, you can use any sort of olive oil to create the mixture.

Once you have rubbed your corn with steak seasoning and olive oil, you can put the corn in the oven. I wanted mine to be more flavourful, so I let it marinate for 20-30 mins. 

Set them in your oven or air fryer (both work as well). I find that every oven is a bit different... for my oven and air fryer, I put them in for 20 minutes at 430F/220C.

Your corn will curl when they are ready... they are almost ready in this picture. I took this picture at 12 minutes)

These are perfect :) These corns have the right curled curve and are ready to be eaten :)

I love how the corn kernels separate like this. This makes it easier to pluck them out with your teeth :)

They were good... the dill seeds were very aromatic and enhanced the taste of the corn :). The kernels were very sweet because they were evenly and perfectly cooked. 

Recipe Score: 8.5/10 (because hacking them to quarters requires skill and effort)

Lay's Chicken and Tomato flavoured chips short review

樂事薯片香濃雞汁番茄味 (北美板版)

I found this Lay's Made in Canada versions of Chinese (Mainland China) regional flavours, Chicken and Tomato chips. 

impressions:

• same Lay's signature texture and thickness (or rather, thinness, Lay's are thin)
• they are Made in Canada? :O
• has a strong tomato taste (but not like ketchup chips... only tomato and sweet)
• a slight chicken taste (sort of like chicken broth)
• they replaced the saltiness with sweetness :( WHAT??? they used sugar instead of salt!
• the taste is subtle, unlike most Canadian Lay's chips (e.g. Ketchup, Classic, Barbeque, etc)

I was disappointed with the chips being sweet. I like my chips, savoury, and they took that away with these chips :(... this might be a cultural thing where the Chinese prefer sweet chips? (Or rather, Asians prefer sweet chips. I'm thinking of Chinese sweet snowflake crackers, Japanese sweet Cheetos and Korean honey curls.).

I enjoyed the tomato flavour (not to be confused with ketchup chips). The tomato flavour was light and sweet, with no tanginess. There was the chicken flavour, but it was more of a brothy chicken flavour instead of real chicken. These chips reminded me of the Baked Chicken and Tomato rice dish.

It isn't bad... but I really wished they used more salt and less sugar.

Score: 7.8/10
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