Recipe inspiration for sweet corn season

I've found some delicious-looking recipes (below) both from our Food & Drink section, as well as from some fabulous foodie blogs, featuring this seriously sweet vegetable. Then again, it's always great simply steamed or grilled and eaten straight off the cob.


Buy it sweet, and get it while it's cheap!


Creamy Corn Chowder with Bacon (CL Tampa Food)


Mexican-style grilled corn recipe: A union of sweet, smoky and salty goodness (CL Tampa Food)


Roasted Corn and Bacon Salad (CL Tampa Food)


Bacon and Sweet Corn Bread (Simply Delicious)


Mexican Sweet Corn Salad (Expat Recipe) -


Polenta and Sweet Corn Pancakes (Ko Rasoi)


Sweet Corn Ice Cream (The Knead for Speed) - Using vegetables in ice cream -- genius! And no ice cream maker is needed for this recipe. (For those with a gluten allergy, substitute a GF corn bread mix.)


Shrimp and Sweet Corn Stuffed Shiitake Mushrooms (A Box of Kitchen)


Sweet Corn Pudding (Circle B Kitchen)


Image via The Prana Mama.

If you've been grocery shopping recently, you may have noticed an abundance of corn wrapped in their green husks (or cellophane and Styrofoam) in large piles in the produce section. That's right, it's sweet corn season!

Lucky for us here in Florida and for those who live in California, we can purchase sweet corn when it is at its freshest, with little travel time between farm to produce stand, as it is one of the major crops grown in these two states. And since it's so plentiful at this time of the year, it's also very inexpensive.

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