Corn Biscuits with Lemon-Dill Butter and Performance Anxiety

Three ears of corn have been glaring at me ever since I picked them up last week. Normally, I am pretty decisive and even more so when it comes to cooking. It's definitely unusual that an ingredient, about which I am especially excited, would manage to escape my pot for as long as these ears of corn.

It's kind of like when you get a new pair of shoes that you've been eyeing for weeks. You spend time imagining all the ways you'd wear them, look again and again at pictures of them on the website, maybe make them your screensaver, and just generally muse about how great they'd be if you owned them. And then you finally get them and you adore the shoes so much that you don't actually want to wear them for fear you might ruin them. You know that feeling? That's kind of how I felt about this corn.

I've been waiting since last summer for it. First of the season - we hadn't seen each other in a long time. In my rational brain, I know there is more corn to come, but in my irrational brain, which I'm sorry to say sometimes dominates, I wanted my first go'round of the summer to be the best. I've been so long without it that I became overwhelmed with ideas. So overwhelmed that I couldn't pull the trigger and just cook the dang things.

It didn't help that so many of my fellow bloggers have been doing such amazing things with their corn. I've been getting pummeled with inspiration and recipes that have only made my, shall we say, corn performance-anxiety, worse.

Right after I got home with this corn, I saw Laura's unconventional but no-less-amazing-for-it tacos and I thought, oh yeah, that's it. But then, not long after, I came across Heather's summery looking soup and was convinced it was the answer. And yet, somehow, the weekend flashed by and still there were three ears of corn sitting in my veggie bowl.

They escaped my grasps on Tuesday, even after I came across this poetic soup recipe from Nicole, followed by these refreshing looking wraps that Kate made. You see what I mean?

Yesterday, I had had enough. This corn was getting cooked. But it was kind of late in the morning when the mood took me - too early for lunch, too late for breakfast. So, after a little bit more research, I came across Joy's biscuits and knew they were a perfect fit. Sometimes, it's all about timing.

I put my own spin on them by whipping up a lemon-dill butter to slather on the warm biscuits - I think dill and corn make a beautiful couple. Plus, as I'm sure you've noticed, my biscuits are star shaped. Not because I was feeling particularly patriotic or creative, but because, much to my chagrin, this is the only cookie cutter I own - and yesterday, it doubled as the only biscuit cutter I own.

In the end, the corn did not disappoint and it was exactly as I imagined. Or, at least, one of the ways I had imagined it.