Memorial Day Munchies With Michelle: Want to See the First Lady-Endorsed Recipe for Corn Soup?
- Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:07pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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First lady Michelle Obama eats veggie pizza with local school children from Bancroft and Tubman elementary schools after harvesting vegetables for the third annual White House kitchen garden fall harvest, Wednesday, Oct., 5, 2011, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
We know many of you are cooking out this Memorial Day as you kick off the unofficial start to summer. And we know that many of you are just itching to know what the First Lady would cook on this day. At least the Associated Press thinks you might be wondering that. So, the outlet decided to post a summer recipe from Michelle Obama’s healthy-eating initiative: a book titled, “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America.”
Here, then, is the Michelle-endorsed recipe for corn soup with summer vegetables. It’s actually the work of Sam Kass, the White House chef, but it appears in the book. If you decide to cook it, let us know.
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CORN SOUP WITH SUMMER VEGETABLES
“This versatile soup is the essence of summer. Dairy-free and nearly fat-free, it showcases the pure, sweet taste of summer corn and can be served hot or at room temperature,” White House chef Sam Kass writes in Michelle Obama’s new book, “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America.”
“A garnish of summer vegetables, grilled and cut into bite-sized pieces, makes this soup your own unique creation. Try zucchini or summer squash, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers or mushrooms, alone or in combination. If you leave out the corn kernels and don’t thin the soup with the corn stock, this becomes a luxurious sauce for seafood like halibut, tilapia, or shrimp.”
Start to finish: 1 1/2 hours
Servings: 4
6 ears of corn, husks and silk removed
2 sprigs fresh thyme
Juice of 1/2 lemon (about 1 tablespoon)
Salt
Olive oil
Grilled vegetables of your choice: zucchini, summer squash, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, mushrooms
Carefully cut the kernels off the ears of corn. To do this, stand each ear of corn upright on its wide end, then use a serrated knife to carefully saw down the length of the cob, rotating and repeating until all of the kernels are removed. Set the kernels aside. Do not discard in the cobs.
To make corn stock, place the cobs in a large stockpot. Add enough water to just barely cover. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat and simmer for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until the water has a rich corn flavor. Strain the stock and discard the cobs and any solids. Set aside.
Reserve 3/4 cup of the corn kernels, then place the remaining kernels in a blender. Puree until smooth, about 45 seconds. If needed, add a bit of the corn stock to help get the blender started. Pour the puree through a mesh strainer into a medium saucepan. Discard any bits of skin.
Add the thyme and bring the soup to a gentle simmer over medium heat, stirring constantly. Do not boil.
As the soup heats, the starch from the corn will begin to thicken the soup. Once the soup has thickened to the consistency of applesauce, about 3 to 4 minutes, add the lemon juice and the reserved corn stock a bit at a time until the soup reaches the desired thickness. You should have 4 to 6 cups of soup. Season with salt.
Heat a small skillet over medium. Add enough olive oil to coat the bottom on the pan. When the oil is hot, add the reserved corn kernels. Do not stir until the corn has a nice brown color. Stir the corn, then remove it from the heat.
Divide the soup between serving bowls, then top each serving with some of the seared corn and any other grilled vegetables desired.
Nutrition information per serving (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 150 calories; 45 calories from fat (30 percent of total calories); 5 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 27 g carbohydrate; 6 g protein; 3 g fiber; 120 mg sodium.
(Recipe adapted from Michelle Obama’s “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America”)
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (117)
LouC57
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:05pmWhy is it the majority of the time you see her, she’s stuffing her face?
Report Post »drbage
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:27pmIt looks like she is trying to inhale the pizza instead of eating it. When is the last time that Moochelle actually cooked a meal herself?? And once again, since she and her husband are so concerned about unelected people making choices for the country, what qualifications does Moochelle have to be the food czarina for the country?
Report Post »Did she have this meal before or after we paid for her and her entourage to attend the Beyonce concert?
turkey13
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:01pmDoesn’t she know there is a shortage of corn on the cob. It is being used to make ethanol gas. Also, she should be worried about global warming! Can you imagaine the pollutents given off from from a charcole grill.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:23pmPretty sure there was pie for the piehole, along with the corn for the cornhole.
Report Post »smokie
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:34amHaha, I thought that too as I looked at the picture of her. She always looks as if she’s trying to shove as much in her face before she takes a breath.
Report Post »The cleaning staff at the Whitehouse must love her, they never have to clean any silverware with her about.
TMink
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:24amThe recipe she shared will make you fat! Look at all those carbohydrates!!!!!!! To be the anti-obesity first lady, she really needs to learn about diet and weight loss. That amount of carbs will make people so inclined fat!
Trey
Report Post »six6six
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:22amAnother series of classy comments from the classiest readers on the web. Nice job folks!
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:28pmEats like a pig. Stupid, classless libaturd bimbo.
Report Post »itchykitchy
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 8:49pmThank God, Oprahs not around anymore to promote her book along with gayle king. I can her opie now, when we was young we was poor. We was black and nobody treated us right but we always ate corn soup thats all we could afford because we was black and poor. And we was slaves and the slaves ate corn soup. So now in honor michele wrote a recipe for corn soup. Its high in carbs and sugar so our kids can watch their weight esplode.
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:01pmCorn and “corn stock,” high in carbohydrates, high in corn estrogen and low in nutriant dense nutrition! Rachet up the obesity!!!
Return to LIMITED but good PROTEIN sources–meat, fish, poultry, dairy; add NON-SUGAR vegetables (nothing that has “sugar” or “sweet” associated with their name such as, beets, peas, corn, beans; and top off with a moderate but whole source of animal fat that contains ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS (such as butter, cream, whole milk, etc.).
You will normalize your blood sugars continuously, lower your cholesterol by reducing the amount of insulin your body must circulate to control excess sugars, lower your blood pressure as plaque will not be “glued” to your arteries in clumps, and you will loose weight by keeping amount of protein moderate, WHILE NOT FEELING HUNGRY BETWEEN MEALS.
Slurge moderately ONCE-IN-A-WHILE.
Search on “normalizing blood sugars” following links to the writings of Richard K. Bernstein, MD, Nutitionist and Wound specialist–75 year old type I diabetic with little to no complications while controlling this NON-PROGRESSIVE disease using correct nutrition!!!
Put the pharmaceutical companies out of business by learning truth and controlling your on destiny imn this world.
Read the Bible for the advice on the “next world”!
THIS IS NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT–I HAVE NO ASSOCIATION TO DR. BERNSTEIN OR LOW CARB EATING. But the U.S. of A needs us to be healthy, good thinkers, and dedicated to save what we are on the
Report Post »teddie888
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:22pmSo no beans or peas cuz they a sugar veggies???
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:57pm“…“This versatile soup is the essence of summer…”
Report Post »Uh, not it ain’t, Moochie Cow… the essence of summer is BBQ’d hamburgers and potato salad.
So go stuff your fat black face back in Kenya.
mharry860
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:26pmHILLBILLYINNY, OK smarty pants, you read “Deadly Harvest”. I did too, following it 90% has resulted in my feeling 1000% better as far as my intestines go, if you know what I mean. I was just at BBQ and they had hot dogs and mystery meat hamburgers, I passed and came home to eat food that didn’t have an ingredient label. My gut will thank me in the morning. If you didn’t read that book, then you should write your own, because as obvious as it seems, it’s not.
Report Post »mharry860
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:35pmOops, read the first 3 paragraphs and I just knew it was “Deadly Harvest” by Geoff Bond. I missed your reference to Richard K. Bernstein. Although, maybe he referenced him in the book. I did a blitz read to pull out the important stuff.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:01pmGeez..I don’t have taxpayer paid servants like Michelle.
It’s just after noon, I have worked on my deck, did a morning run with my lab and changed my own oil on my cars (if you looked at my earnings; Michelle would say I am rich). I worked hard to get where I am at and still don’t pay people to tasks I can do..that’s how you keep what you have earned!
Since my dollar is worth about 10% less than last Memorial Day due to her husband’s failed policies. No to mention increased taxes, increase healthcare costs, increased food costs, increased energy costs and major loss on my home..looks like I will be doing my own work for the rest of my life.
For darn sure, I am firing up my gas grill, having some burgers, hot dogs, potato salad, homemade ice cream and a cold beer….that’s America! Oh btw my family has the right body-fat ratios because we cared for ourselves long before you and Barry entered the taxpayer paid Whitehouse dictating what we should eat!
So, Michelle slip into the taxplayer paid Whitehouse with your taxpayer paid servant and enjoy your soup with your taxpayer paid air conditioning!
Report Post »KarenMo
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:26pmMichelle can keep on stuffing her face with whatever she wants. Here in Missouri we are – and always will – grilling burgers and brats and drink our beer just like any good American. I could care less what her large and ever-growing elitist a** eats. Let’s Move — the Obama’s Out of the White House! Now THAT’S a campaign!
Report Post »lcltcc
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:22pmI don’t do a whole lot of work on my cars, but I do everything else that I possible can. I am an Army wife, I have learned to do many things, not because I had to, but because I chose to. My teenage son and I just built a deck around our pool, We just put in a new hot water heater, actually two, installed a new garbage disposal. During my husbands first deployment I repaired a portion of the porch on our 1880 farmhouse, tore out walls and ceiling in a room that was beyond repair (old plaster/lath) put in a new floor in the kitchen, that was just some of the stuff, I have also learned to do basic wiring. I like doing these things, I like NOT paying someone else to do it. We are not rich, but could afford to pay someone, I just don’t want to.
Report Post »LifesNotARehersal
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:55pmSo I’m confused, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton didn’t have servants at the White House?
Report Post »georgepatton
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:58pmGood meal for her….after all she’s a corn fed heffer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Chromo200
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:13pmExcellent .. made my day .. I will be laughing all day long and next time I see cattle out in the pasture I will think of this comment.
Report Post »Zoe
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:54pmActually no, I would prefer never to see her again…….
Report Post »red_white_blue2
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:02pmHERE HERE–In November, let’s tell her what she can do with her Socialist Diet!!!
Report Post »tommythekid
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:54pmhere in new england corn chowder is a favorite. personally, I hate the stuff. My wife and I are BBQ’ing hot dogs and burgers, and having salad, beans, AND American beer. But before that, I remembered my uncle Mike, who was a Pharmacists Mate at Normandy, and my Father, whose ship was ht by a Kamikaze off Okinawa. And I’ll also remember my paternal grandfather and Maternal uncle, who were both in the Mexican incursion and WW1. My grandfather was machinegunned, and my uncle was gassed.
Report Post »And to think that that dumbass on MSNBC is debating calling these men heroes. For my 2 cents, there isn’t any debate, much less a need for any debate. Thanks Dad, Uncle Mike, Uncle Johnnie, and Granddad. If it weren’t for you, we might not be speaking English today.
Tigress1
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:53pmMichelle, grilled foods are higher in carcinogens. Hate to rain on your parade!
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:52pmI could care less what this woman says or does the only time she has been proud of this country is when her husband became a lottery winner and gave her an open credit card paid for by us hard working AMERICAN tax payers
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:48pmIf I wanted to watch an animal eat, I’d buy a ticket to the zoo.
Report Post »adeleeeee
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:46pmWhat? This is how you make corn sup: stir and fry the corn with BUTTER and FLOUR! Gosh I can make a better corn soup than her! The most horrible thing is she make those healthy veggie less appearing!
Report Post »BTW I run a lot! So I can enjoy fried chicken French fries! I know how to live a healthy life. Get off first lady!
BurntHills
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:46pmUGG UGG UGG, the LAST thing we wanted to see today while waiting on the hog roast this afternoon was Flotus the Wonder Sow continually gorging herself. is that recipe from her Chicago chef she dragged with her– at our tax dollars expense?! she is DISGUSTING.
Report Post »Amica
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:43pmHow is 30% of calories from fat “nearly fat free?”
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:42pmhave a nice angry day people- it’s just soup
Report Post »football lady
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:53pmthen YOU eat it.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:03pm@Steelhead–No one person would know anger better than you.
Report Post »tommythekid
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:23pmyeah. you eat it.
Report Post »bulletsinthegun
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:19pmHope you choke on the soup. I will have a burger with cheese, bush beans and a bud thank you. Then mow the lawn with my gas lawn tractor and 2 stroke weed eater. then start my big John Deere and mow the lane.
Report Post »thebigquad
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:39pmWe grilled New York strips on Saturday night, hamburgers last night and I have no idea what my husband has planned for tonight, but I do know it won’t be corn soup. Bug off, Moochelle.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:37pmI could care less what this “woman” does or says.
I will have a Greasy Double Organic Cheeseburger (No pink slime, thank you) with Organic Bacon with Tons of Sea Salt and Organic Mayo.
I will have some greasy Organic steak fries, lots of spring Water Iced tea laden with unrefined organic sugar and then top it off with a organic sugar-laden cake
with lots of organic sugar-laden icing.
Our “Presidents” job is to ensure our Constitutional freedom and rights, and this skank is running her pie-hole about what foods people should eat.
Worry about your own pie-hole, Moo..chele.
Enjoy your Genetically Modified Organism corn.
Here is an education for her, and the leftists:
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewUP-Fdhqk
IIIcorp
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:53pmTry grilling your patties and at the same time grill strips of jalapeno bacon. Top your burger with bacon and some homemade guacamole. Decorate with a small American Flag. Serve with a good micro brew beer.
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:57pmGood Clip!!! Someone that makes sense… Loved Trading places also….To bad he isn’t around anymore, We need more people like him……
Report Post »mrdoogle
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:07pmExcellent post……this pig probably does not even kow she is eating GMO corn!
Report Post »Rock_Moninoff
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:37pmCristeta Comerford is the White House Chef, yet Kass, who is the Obozo’s personal chef gets all the press and credit. Wow, I can make soup. Wow I can plant a garden in the sludge the Clinton’s left behind. Eat up Moochie!
Report Post »Zarniwoop
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:32pmI think I saw this recipe in Pow Wow Chow.
Report Post »Slice_Of_Life
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:33pmTwo thumbs up! Excellent political humor.
OMG 2012
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:27pmNope.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:32pmSounds like a peasant soup to me .. no not this year .. if Obama is re-elected we may very well be eating something like it next year.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:27pmBurgers, hot dogs, chips, potato salad, and ice cold beer. That’s on the menu for me tonight. Moochelle’s “American Grown” book can start the charcoal up in my grill for all I care.
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:25pmCorn soup? Brisket, Potato Salad, Baked beans, Cole Slaw, Beer! and Blackberry Cobbler with ice cream. Wager her husband would rather come to my party.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:43pmand you would be right
Report Post »Girl Named Sue
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 5:11pmKids and their Grandma, too.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:23pmCorn prices increased 8.6% last week.
Report Post »DGuy
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 9:23pmBecause Mooshelle ate it all…
Report Post »RevDev
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:20pmThere is a reason they feed corn to bovine and swine. Stop meddling in our lives and stay out of our kitchens Moo-chele.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:20pmAfter you make the corn soup, don’t forget to send the cobs to Barney Frank. Waste not, want not.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:37pmIs that where the corn hole game came from?
Report Post »Amica
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:46pmEeeew! Eew eew eew!!
Report Post »tommythekid
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:58pmhe would enjoy that, wouldn’t he?
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:12pmI think she meant corn-hole soup. The very kind her & hubby like to spoon-feed us every day. Eat it yourselves.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:10pmIt is going to feel like 104 today and soup is what I want to eat? Go sit in your air conditioning some more Michelle, I have some more masonry work to do outside.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:33pmOopsie did you get your permit or did you mean you are going to look at some masonry? WINK WINK
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 12:39pmLucky for us we live in an unincorporated area of Texas. No permit needed.
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