This morning I got up early and made a test batch of pickled corn. The last time I tried fooling around with corn I found the color of the final result to be a tiny bit pale. So this time I added some turmeric. I also felt that the earlier version was a little bland. So I went to my secret supply of carefully-frozen peppers that I procured last season from my fellow Greenmarketer, Tim Stark of Eckerton Hill Farms. Tim is a tomato specialist, and his heirlooms are widely prized (and written about, by Tim, in his cool new book "Heirloom". But Tim also grows the finest array of unusual chili peppers I've ever seen. I'm particularly fond of his Aji Dulces, a small round red pepper with medium heat and an unforgettable sweet aroma. I still had two Aji Dulces left in my freezer, and hopefully that'll be enough to bring some zing to this small batch of pickled corn. I'm calling my recipe Handy Corn and assuming all goes well with this batch I'm going to make a single commercial run while the best of the local corn is still around to sell at the Greenmarket and online. Stay tuned for more details about Handy Corn!
Posted by Rick at August 1, 2008 02:13 PM