To Kentucky We Did Go

I was able to head up to the land of the Mennonites in Kentucky with my fabulous sister-in-law, Tara and my niece, Hope. Tara has a wonderful cooking website that you should check out. We were on a mission to find corn, green beans, and whatever else happened to look good. I bought a box of corn, but found out that we were a little early for the green beans. Tara picked up a few more things - peaches, pickling cucumbers, and eggplant. We stopped off at one of the little stores and I treated the kids to a snack of their choosing. We had a fun time driving through the little Mennonite community and buying the freshest veggies to put up for the summer. We finished our trip to Kentucky with lunch at a little Mexican restaurant and then headed back to Tara's house to begin our corn process. The last time that I had made corn with Tara was back in 2008. I definitely loved putting away the corn with Tara and Hope, but it is definitely messy. Abby Kate, Joshua, and Jackson even provided helping hands this year.

We ended up with 2 boxes of corn to put away.

Shucking corn is a great upper body workout. 

Helpful hands help wash and silk the cobs of corn.

I love this picture.

And then we cut the corn off the cob - all 160 ears.

We ended up with 3 of these big bowls of cut corn.

Then we boiled the corn off a pot at a time. 

Our finished product!

This picture makes me so happy!

I'm excited to know that we will have fresh corn for the year now!