By Kelli Bowen
It's corn!! If you haven’t been keeping up on your viral ag-themed videos lately, do me a favor and Google “corn kid interview.” You’ll be delighted by a young man who really loves corn. I feel you kid. If you have extra time, Google “corn kid interview song” and just sit back and enjoy drifting down the rabbit hole of corn-jams.
It is sweet corn season and we love us some sweet corn. We love growing it. We love picking it. We love eating it! The only thing we don’t love is husking it, but even that still is a small price to pay for corn!
Miss E and Miss A both put down cobs of corn like it’s their job, although Miss A is currently missing a front tooth so she sometimes requests the corn be cut from the cob for easy eating. Boiling corn is the old standby preparation method. If we have a lot of people together, we’ll use a stockpot or use the outdoor turkey fryer filled with water and boil it that way.
Hubby’s favorite method of preparation is to grill it. He opens the corn husks, gets the whole husk and cob wet with water and then throws it on the smoker. This might be my favorite method too…it is delicious AND I don’t have to touch anything! Unfortunately our grill is currently broken, so grilling corn isn’t an option for us this year.
I tried sautéing the corn this year. I mainly tried this method so I could obnoxiously overuse the word sauté. For sautéing, I took 3 tablespoons of butter, melted into the pan, added 6-8 cups of corn(cut from the cob), 1 tsp of salt, 1/4 tsp of pepper and then sauté away! It just takes a few minutes to get everything warm and then you’re good-to-go. I do believe it helps if you work “sauté” into every other sentence as you prepare the corn.
If there’s an abundance of corn, we save some by freezing it. The recipe we use is very simple:
Freezer Corn:
20 cups of corn (cut from the cob) in a roasting pan, one pound of butter, a pint of half and half, a teaspoon of salt, a teaspoon of sugar, and then pop it all in the oven at 325 degrees for one hour. Stir every 15 minutes. Cool. Scoop into freezer bags and toss into the freezer. Just thaw, heat and eat for some summer freshness anytime.
It’s Cooooooorn! It’s got the juice…! Now go Google.
Kelli makes her home in Cass County with her husband, two daughters (10 and 7) and two dogs. She works for a regional seed company by day and tries to be an alright mom, wife, friend and writer by night.
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