Are you feelin’…..Corny?

I was feeling sentimental and this past weekend Joe (The hubby) and I hit the local farmer’s market and bought 38 ears of corn.

 

 

I was planning on carrying a tradition that has been in our family for years: parboiling corn, cutting it off the cob, and then freezing it to be enjoyed during the winter months. We got our huge bags and headed down to the Naperville Farmer’s Market where the famous “Beautiful Corn” man was yelling about how beautiful and sweet his corn was even though the kernels were little this week. He promised they would be good. The corn was bicolor.

 

 Our family had always used the light yellow sweet corn my grandfather grew in his gardens. I remember waking up on the summer mornings as a child to the sound of the my grandmother, aunties, and mother talking and also the sound of the water boiling. I would wake up to the smell of hot, sweet corn that had been boiled and cut, and the corn milk laying all over the countertops. So we got the corn home, and went to the Lake Geneva wine festival. When we got back that afternoon, we took all the husk off and the hair which is the first step. 

 

 As you can see from the pictures, the dog had fun with the corn as well too.

 

Then we got a huge pot of water boiling which we had from the canning of the pickles and boiled the ears for 5 minutes. After putting them into an icebath we carefully cut the kernels off the cob and ran our knives up and down the empty cob to get some of the milk out.

 

 

 

 Once that was finished, we bagged them and stuck them in the freezer.

We have our own special way of vacuum sealing the bags. Take a straw and cut it into half. Close up your freezer bag except for  little opening (and my aunt says you must use the press and seal, yellow and blue make green bags). Suck the air out of the bag being careful not to accidentally blow back into the bag. Once you have sucked in as much air as you can, draw out the straw with your teeth and quickly close up the little opening at the same time. Put in freezer, and then be prepared for a little taste of summer in the long winter months!

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