I am really late putting this post up, but my computer hasn't been allowing me onto my blog account so I have been literally locked out of all the fun. Finally I called cousin Ben Simmons, computer consultant, who fixed it for me, and now I am happy to be writing my second post. Andy has done all the others. :)
So, we love corn! Homegrown, home-boiled, hot, buttery corn in August! This year, to support our corny habit, we grew corn in our garden. During the summer, though, we had a huge wind storm, and two of our four rows of corn were completing blown over. As we surveyed the damage the next day Andy and I mourned! I had no idea you could be so sad over corn! I was really devistated! But Andy, the Superman that he is, was determined to save the corn. He put bricks between each stalk of corn, then chairs at the ends of each row, with heavy rope to hold the rows of corn up. I didn't think we would harvest any corn, but to my great delight, Andy's Superman skills worked and the corn was saved! Early September, for one of our Friday night dates, as we were broke and had no money to spend in town anyway, we decided to pick, shuck, cook, cut, and freeze our corn (about 80 ears). So, with the girls help, that is exactly what we did. Imagine three chairs around a big, black Darth Vador garbage can, with little helpers trying to scrape 
silk off the corn. It was great fun! Andy told stories about his yearly shucking as a boy during corn freezing season. See the bucket of corn we had when we were finished with Darth (1st picture). Oh, we were so pleased! Next step, cook the corn. We brought out our camp chef so we won't have to cook inside on my two little burners (which are the only two burners that work in my kitchen). But the propane ran out, and having no time or money to replace the propane we brought the corn inside and cooked it on our two little burners! It can be done! While we were cooking, Andy quickly looked up a freezer corn recipe online so we would know what to do. It told us we should cook the corn for about 8 minutes, then put it in freezing cold water until the corn was cold, then cut, bag, and freeze it. So, that is what we did! Quiet a few hours later, much longer than we thought it should take, we fi
nally finish! Above is what was leftover when we were done, and a picture of our corn, bagged and ready to freeze! 80 ears of corn made 40-2 cup servings! Well, we needed to celebrate our accomplishment, so we pull out the quickest treat we could find, which of course was... POPCORN! The girls really loved that part!
So, we love corn! Homegrown, home-boiled, hot, buttery corn in August! This year, to support our corny habit, we grew corn in our garden. During the summer, though, we had a huge wind storm, and two of our four rows of corn were completing blown over. As we surveyed the damage the next day Andy and I mourned! I had no idea you could be so sad over corn! I was really devistated! But Andy, the Superman that he is, was determined to save the corn. He put bricks between each stalk of corn, then chairs at the ends of each row, with heavy rope to hold the rows of corn up. I didn't think we would harvest any corn, but to my great delight, Andy's Superman skills worked and the corn was saved! Early September, for one of our Friday night dates, as we were broke and had no money to spend in town anyway, we decided to pick, shuck, cook, cut, and freeze our corn (about 80 ears). So, with the girls help, that is exactly what we did. Imagine three chairs around a big, black Darth Vador garbage can, with little helpers trying to scrape 
silk off the corn. It was great fun! Andy told stories about his yearly shucking as a boy during corn freezing season. See the bucket of corn we had when we were finished with Darth (1st picture). Oh, we were so pleased! Next step, cook the corn. We brought out our camp chef so we won't have to cook inside on my two little burners (which are the only two burners that work in my kitchen). But the propane ran out, and having no time or money to replace the propane we brought the corn inside and cooked it on our two little burners! It can be done! While we were cooking, Andy quickly looked up a freezer corn recipe online so we would know what to do. It told us we should cook the corn for about 8 minutes, then put it in freezing cold water until the corn was cold, then cut, bag, and freeze it. So, that is what we did! Quiet a few hours later, much longer than we thought it should take, we fi
nally finish! Above is what was leftover when we were done, and a picture of our corn, bagged and ready to freeze! 80 ears of corn made 40-2 cup servings! Well, we needed to celebrate our accomplishment, so we pull out the quickest treat we could find, which of course was... POPCORN! The girls really loved that part!What a night! Well, at church that Sunday I talked to a great gardener who had also been freezing her corn. She told me her recipe! Cut off the cob before cooking! Ah! Then blanch! No cooling in freezing cold water! Well, we ended up doing our corn the hard way! Oh, well, next year we will know what recipe to use instead! We have eaten some of the corn, and we all agree, it is worth all the work!
Yay! We loved the update! Jealous of all the corn! it looks amazing! Loved the pics too! Miss you guys!
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