The sweet part of the day was the sweet corn and time spent with a good friend. Barb, and I decided to spend the day freezing sweet corn. It took most of the day to get the job done. We had to travel early in the morning to pick up the 150 or so ears of corn. It's some variety of the Olathe Sweet Corn which is quite well known. Let me know if you've heard of it. It's truly wonderful tasting corn, and it grows so well around here.
Most area residents look forward to this time of year when the corn is plentiful. There is an annual festival in honor of the corn harvest. You can get the festival details here. It's set to happen on August 24th.
Now back to my adventure with the corn. After loading it into Barb's car and unloading onto her deck table, the real work started. All of the ears had to be shucked. While that was happening, Barb started two big stock pots so we could blanche the corn. Thank goodness Barb has an oversized two bay sink. We used ice water to cool the corn when it was done blanching and then it was all laid out to dry.
The next phase was physically the toughest for me. The corn had to be removed from the cob. Barb recently had shoulder surgery, so I did most of the removal. While I was doing that, Barb measured out the cut corn and put it in quart sized freezer bags. We haven't done a final count yet, but we ended up with somewhere around 50 to 60 bags.
Was it worth all of the time and effort? Well...the short answer is yes, but it really was a lot of work. I know we will be thankful to have the bounty during the winter months. It will be a little reminder of summer from a bag out of the freezer.
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