It's the Most Delicious Time of Year!

It's the perfect time to eat local at Dorisdale Farm!  Our sweet corn is delicious with great quantities of both white and bi-colour varieties. Our green and yellow beans are dripping on the plants due to the sunshine and the much needed rain over the last 24 hours. Garlic has been picked, cured and selling as fast as we can clean it!  Our freezers are stocked with Dorisdale Beef perfect for summer meals.  Amazing!

It's the perfect time to think about preserving/pickling/canning/freezing to keep the taste of summer  at your table all winter long!  Pickling beans is on the agenda for us.  

I recently had a shocking bean picking experience!  We try to utilize our land efficiently for producing food for the sweet corn table and also ensure our cattle's feed needs are met. This year, one of our green and yellow bean patches is immediately beside the house along County Road 2.  (Yes - perfect for people to honk as they drive by!)  Friends and family know that I've had a history of back issues but have been doing much better after surgery in August 2015.  Picking beans means I have to adjust, bend, lean and move around constantly.  Usually that works and keeps me picking but I discovered it's not a great option when there's a strand of electric fence along the last row of yellow beans.  Definitely electrifying and unfortunately, I didn't learn my lesson the first time!! When beans have to be picked, they have to be picked!  Enjoy your freshly picked beans and think of me:)

Each year we have a number of questions about our favourite recipes.  Here's my longstanding favourite way to freeze corn all season long.  Thinking of my Aunt Sara Campbell as I share this family recipe with you to enjoy. 

~Carolyn


Aunt Sara's Easy Freezer Corn

Ingredients:
10 cups corn kernels
2 tsp salt (or less)
6 tsp sugar
3 cups water

Directions:
With an electric knife, cut kernels from cobs of corn (remove the husk and silk first!!).  Hold at the top of the cob and watch your fingers!!  Putting the cob in a tube pan works great. 

Measure raw corn kernels into large pot.  Add sugar, salt and water.  Bring to boil over high heat.  Boil for 2 minutes.  Remove from heat and let cool.  Portion into freezer bags (corn and liquid) and freeze.