On ode to sweet corn-----

16 years ago

But I have no idea how to compose one. I've been growing the bi-colors for the last few years and they are so good. I always pick 15 years, Leone always eats 3 and I (gulp) always eat 5. We freeze the corn from the other 7. I plant at 10 days intervals so the season is extended and we are looking forward to the old open pollinated Stowells Evergreen which is so slow and so darn tall the wind often blows the very tall stalks over but the flavor of the corn is really superior, not as sweet, but more of a true corn flavor and the color is white.

Oh, and fritters made from the freshly picked corn are so good I am always in danger of eating too many.

Tonights menu will be sliced tomatoes, cucumbers in sour cream, fresh beets, marble size with their tops, sweet corn and I think there is a cantelope that will be ready. Not sure we will need it after feasting on the other.

Love this time of the year when we can eat out of the garden.

The garlic is cured, the onions are curing and almost ready for braiding, there will be about 30 lbs. of them. We really don't need to can any more tomatoes this year but the stewed tomatoes will have to be replenished and more pickles to be made. Enough about food, making me hungry. Think I hear a tomato sandwich calling me.

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calliope
16 years ago
OK Gandle, I am sure you are up to composing an ode to sweet corn. I'll think on it as well, as I am singing sweet songs to my crop this year. My first and main crop was butter 'n cream. My second crop is .......blush.....forget the name but it's an old fashioned open pollinated yellow. It has a super fast maturity date and that's a plus when one is trying to squeeze in one last planting. Agree with you, not as sweet, but tastes like we remember real corn tasting. I planted it because some garden space opened up and one can NEVER grow too much corn.

I started picking my corn way on the early side and my dh is revolting, telling me to wait until the ears are nice and plump. Well, excuse me, they were delicious and not at all wasteful as so much shall come on so closely that better to eat on the small tender size than waste it. He's not the one who'll have to get it canned or frozen.

I got really lucky with the rains this year for such a dry summer. They came at pollination and are coming as the kernels fill. The ears are very well filled out, not missing many kernels at all. The coons haven't found it yet. Did I say the coons haven't found it yet? The deer have, but after munching the top out of one plant and leaving their signature hoof print left it alone, preferring the soy bean fields behind and down the road toward town. rofl.

Even now that the locally grown is in season, the prices at market are holding from 35 to 55 cents an ear. My corn is throwing out consistantly two ears per stalk. Whoopee! This years I promised myself we'd have so much of it, we'd founder on it.
tibs
16 years ago
I'm going to a corn roast this friday for some home grown. And home made icecream. I am going to bring Elaine B's World Famous Hot Fudge Sauce. Elaine was a woman I worked with years ago. On any birthday of fellow staff, I would make the cake, another person would bring in the icecream and she would make this sauce. She would bring in a hot plate and start warming it up about an hour before lunch. Due to the location of outlets, the hotplate was under her desk. I was caught crawling into her office on my hands and knees with a spoon between my teeth to raid the sauce. It is good you don't even need icecream.
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shilty
16 years ago
Yessssssssssssssssssss!

Ode to sweetcorn - whatever you raised, however you like it, enjoy it now... it is never quite the same frozen in the winter....

But my mom and dad had it down to a science...30 minutes from stalk to freezer, 6 minutes parboil, a quick ice water bath, slice it from the cob, and pack it in quart containers ASAP....

Fried, or quickly heated with butter...you can almost think it just off the cob....

An ode indeed...
norar_il
16 years ago
All the talk of corn is making me hungry, but I need the recipe for the hot fudge sauce. Really, I NEED it! Please.
Janis_G
16 years ago
I don't want to hear any more talk about corn!
Sweet corn has always been my second favorite thing
to eat, tomato sandwiches with mayo being at the top of the list.

Unfortunately I can't eat it any more and I could just
cry every time I think about it. So y'all just go ahead
and eat your fresh corn and your corn fritters and i'll
go sit in the corner and cry.
oakleif
16 years ago
I'd like the hot fudge sauce receipe too. i like corn but there are several things from the garden that come ahead of it.tomatoes, cukes,new potatoes,green peas,fresh onions,cantelopes and watermelon.
leaveswave
16 years ago
Oh, I'd like the corn fritter recipe. I've never heard of this and it sounds interesting...
andie_rathbone
16 years ago
Sweet corn is one of the true treats of summer. As I kid I loved going to visit my aunt & uncle & cousins on the family farm in central Illinois about this time of year. We'd pick the corn right out of the field & throw it into a big cast iron kettle of water.

Talk about tasting wonderful!

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