I warned them. On my way out the door to the farmer’s market Thursday evening I told the boys that I was hoping to come home with a big load of corn so they’d better get their shucker game face on.
At the market, I walked right up to my favorite organic food grower, took a look at her corn and said, “Can I have all of it (please)?!”
She’s always great to work with, I trust how she grows her food and she is very fair with her pricing. In fact, she only charged me for 10 dozen ears, when in fact she sent me home with over 13 dozen!! That’s a stinkin’ lot of corn.
I’m still sore.
The boys helped me lug it out of the van (Matt was at work so he missed all the fun!) and they went to town shucking while I started boiling water in my big stock pot.
And they shucked. And they shucked. (13 dozen is no less than 156 ears of corn. They did the math.)
Just for fun, check out these pictures from their shucking time two years ago. They are so much bigger now. Wow.
In case you’re wondering, you can read about the process of freezing corn here. I did invest in a cool Kernel Cutter from Pampered Chef this year and it was GREAT to work with! So much better than a regular knife!
Yes, I thought you’d like to see the gigantic mess I made in the kitchen that night. Not pictured: My hair looking like a half-shucked corn cob. By the way, did you know that corn is very, very sticky? Just so ya know.
I’m happy to report that I got 61 bags of corn for all of this work!!! That’s enough for the whole year, so I am officially checking “put up corn” off my list!! Hallelujah! (You can read more about the Seal-a-Meal I used here.) The cost for all of that ends up being about 66¢/bag for the freshest, sweetest, organic-est corn there is…woohoo!
In other news, I made a big peach cobbler (recipe found here) with some of our Michigan peaches. Oh, it is so much fun to surprise my husband with his favorite treat. The kids didn’t mind either.
And here is our menu plan for this week, filled with so many summertime goodies!
Sunday, August 8
Oatmeal, peaches
Roast, potatoes, carrots, gravy
Black bean salsa and chips, watermelon
Monday, August 9
Peach cobbler
Turkey/cheese melts on biscuits, carrot sticks with ranch dip, cherries
BBQ meatballs, new potatoes from the garden!!, green beans
Tuesday, August 10
Mini breakfast pizza, strawberry-peach slushies
BLTs, watermelon
Taco salad, creamy orange cooler
Wednesday, August 11
Peanut butter honey toast, blueberries
Spaghetti, fried okra, corn on the cob
Pizza, grapes
Thursday, August 12
Scrambled eggs, fruit-kefir smoothies
Feeding YC women’s soccer team: Nacho Bar with all the fixin’s, homemade ice cream sandwiches
Egg rolls (experimenting with recipes on this!), watermelon
Friday, August 13 (Happy Anniversary to us!!)
Crepes with jelly, bananas
Cheesy turkey sausage stromboli, fruit salad
Cookout with friends
Saturday, August 14
Whole Wheat Donuts
Leftovers
Lamb chops, green beans, tossed salad
Stay tuned this week for a very fun Back 2 School Bash!!
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YUM! It’s hard to beat sweet corn from the midwest!! Enjoy! The Michigan peach cobbler looks good too! :)
So, if someone tells you what a good job you did you have to reply “Awww, shucks”. ;) Sorry, couldn’t resist. Nothing like fresh corn in NE!! YUM!!
:)
WOW!! Now that makes me wanna go out on Saturday and get a bunch of corn. What is a good price for a dozen corn? I even want that kernel cutter. That is going on my Christmas list, that is unless one of my friends has a party. ;)
I paid $4.00/dozen for organic, fresh, local corn. I could have gotten it for $3.00/dozen, but I didn’t know how it had been raised and I really like supporting the gal I usually get it from.
So, I paid $40 and she gave me extra and I got 61 bags of corn out of it. I feel great about that price!!
The pictures bring back memories from when I was growing up. We used to go to the sweet corn festival and you could have all the free sweet corn you could carry. We brought the pick up truck one year and they filled up the bed of the truck for us. We were shucking, blanching and freezing for days. It was so worth it though, I love bi-color sweet corn.
That looks like my kitchen a few weeks ago. We bought 2 bushels from a local farmer. I don’t know how many ears that came out too, I think around a 120. It was a lot of work! I ended up with 4 gallon ziplocs that I cut off the cob, and 4 bags of corn on the cob. There are 7 of us (and 1 on the way!), so I don’t know if it will last us a year or not. We eat a lot of corn. It sure is good though!
So what do you plan to do with all the corn in your garden? Because if you did 61 bags now….your eating corn at least once a week! :)
We’ve just been eating the corn in our garden fresh off the cob…with lots of butter and salt!!! It’s almost gone, so yes, the 61 bags will last us the rest of the year and we won’t have to hold back!
They don’t call us “Cornhuskers” for nothin’! (I’m a reader from Nebraska) : )
Hey, neighbor!
Those photos are inspiring. That took alot of work but your family will be able to enjoy all that healthy food long after the fresh corn crops from this year are gone, and at a great price! I think I will be picking up some local corn (though not near as much!) and doing the same thing now!
All I gotta say is WOW! You are a corn maven.
That isn’t a bad price for per bag of frozen corn. YUM. Can’t wait to start getting some produce from my plants. BUSY time of year for sure right now.
My dad freezes his corn right in the shucks! He froze over 100 ears this year! The he just thaws it in the fridge and either cooks it in the microwave or on the grill! It’s great!
Oh and my hubby’s favorite is peach cobbler too! He loves applecrisp too and my dad’s apple trees did GREAT this year.. in fact I had apple crisp for breakfast! Yum!!
Looks wonderful..I’m trying to find that cobbler recipe from that link but I am having no luck..is there another way to find it? thanks
Sorry I probably wasn’t specific enough. It’s in my Gardening and Canning ebook: https://www.heavenlyhomemakers.com/heavenly-homemakers-guide-to-gardening-and-preserving-ebook
That is the most impressive housekeeping feat I’ve ever seen. Incredible! You must have one big-ole deep freezer! What are you going to put-by next???!
Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes!!!
This looks like a great week! Do you have any tips or recipes for homemade ice cream sandwiches?
I’ve actually never tried it before and will be experimenting with them. I’ll be sure to take pictures and share if they turn out well!
Please do! I want to make them for a coworkers birthday next week.
I sure hope you made CORN BROTH from those ears of corn after you sliced off the kernels . . . !!!
Hmm, never heard of it. There was pretty much nothing left on the cob at all after I scraped ’em so clean…what do you do? Boil the cobs in water to make broth?
I just finished up 100 ears of corn this round. (I did 100 ears 2 weeks ago) The first batch I froze and the second I am canning. There, is no room left in the freezer! I will be putting a post on my blog later about canning corn. Here’s a fun tip, set your ear of corn in a bunt pan then take a fillet knife and cut away. This was so much faster than any gadget I have ever used and ruined. The bundt pan catches the corn and the mess was a bit less. :)
Now I need to go clean all that stickiness off the floor and get to work on the half bushel of tomatoes I pulled in today. In August it never ends and I love every minute of it!
The annual Powell family ‘Corn Day’ was last week..92/93 yr old Grandparents, Aunt & Uncle, Mom & Dad, 5 cousins and hubbies, and 10 Great Grandbabies!!!!! We froze 90+ quarts of corn….we set up shop in the grandparents garage….Pick, Husk, Cook, Cool in cooler 1, change to cooler 2, really cool in cooler 3 (that is the grandkids job, then we have great Amish tools to cut the corn off into bowls..then the last job is to scoop into containers and freeze!!!! Of course lunch is a BIG part of the special day! We all look foward to the process every year!!!!
Glad your corn day was a success like ours!!!! And Ohio is sooooo glad to have Nebraska join the Big 10 BTW ;)
Hi, Laura,
I was just noting that when your emails come in to my box the sender id and subject say Heavenly Homemakers;Heavenly Homemakers, so, when I move these into the HH folder I need to change the subject or something to find what I am looking for. I was wondering if it would help others out there as well, if you could find a way to put something like, Homeschool Hubbub or Meals for the week, etc. in your subjest area? I sure enjoy the information you give and thank you.
Hmm, I’m not sure I have any control over the subject line on the email. I’ll have to check into that.
You may be right about that. I note the same thing on some other blogs that i dont keep around. Not as important as yours!! Oh, well, just thought i would ask. Thanks for your eamils none theless. Just love them!!
Awesome corn party! I really need to put up corn this year, thanks for reminding me! :-)
Holy cow, I’m so jealous of all that corn. I think I’m drooling, lol.
I love those large stainless containers in the background of the third picture! Would you mind telling me where you found those?
Ah yes, the beautiful stainless steel!!! Some of them were my moms and I was able to bring them home to use after she died. I LOVE them and they remind me of her every day!!! Otherwise, I believe I got the huge bowl and the huge stock pot just at Walmart. I don’t have a lot of other choices in my small town…Walmart or online is how I shop!