Elotes - Mexican Snack Corn - Sophisticated Veggie

 I cooked some blackened salmon in a cast iron skillet on the bbq grill. After the salmon was cooked and removed, I rolled the grilled corn in the remaining butter. The skillet was so hot it browned the corn in the butter. Making an unusually tasty dish.


Remove the corn husks and silk. Soak the ears in salt water if you like. Place the corn on a pre-heated bbq grill, over medium heat and close the lid. I had the corn cooking side by side with the salmon. Rotate the corn when you flip the burgers, steaks, poultry, fish, etc.


After removing the main course from the cast iron skillet, put the ears in, one at a time, and roll around in the remaining butter. Put them back on the grill and lower the flame as much as possible.

Elotes, traditional Mexican snack food, are a grilled or simmered ear of corn, rolled in mayonnaise, a sprinkle cotija cheese, lime juice and chile powder. Variations are endless and will not be considered here. I used lemon juice, and smoked paprika.


Lastly, some use the herb epazote with corn. It's somewhat traditional.

Sentimental Vegetarianism

Sentimental Vegetarianism by P. Morton Shand

New York : Knopf, 1928 - (page 160)

The Sentimental Vegetarians are the most numerous and illogical of the different sects of dietetic vegetarians, quasi-vegetarians, frutarians, nutarians and the raw vegetable nourishment stalwarts. If the pretensions of the sentimental vegetarians are to be taken seriously, not only must humanity forgo all animal foods, including milk and eggs, from ethical motives, but true to the essentially democratic principal of "sois mon frere, ou je te tu," every single race of mankind should be constrained -- by force of arms failing peaceful persuasion, since the offence is greater in the eating than in the killing -- to abstain from meat nourishment for all eternity.


After making the world safe for vegetarianism, the next step would be the organization of armed, vegetarianized, humanity (or vegetarianized armed humanity - it does not matter which, but propagandists would declare there was a world of difference) to prevent non-carnivorous animals being devoured by carnivorous, and to put a stop to the outrage of carnivorous animals preying on each other.


A Book of Food
by Morton P. Shand
(NY : Knopf, 1928)
(page 160)

Note: The French phrase: "sois mon frere, ou je te tu" is figuratively translated to mean: "be my brother, or I will kill you" 
see: Zanoni, by Edward Bulwer Lytton