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Farmers’ Market Corn and Peach Salad

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This salad is the direct result of a trip to the farmer’s market. I hesitate to give an exact recipe, since the hope is that you tailor your family’s meal after what you find at your market! So consider the recipe below as a guideline only.

We set out with the intention of making a Corn, Nectarine, and Blueberry Salad that I’d spotted in a magazine, and I printed Travis a picture of each ingredient we hoped to find. This turned it into a neat scavenger hunt.

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Any similar hunt will be a great way to engage kids with the market and the sellers! If you don’t have exact ingredients in mind, then challenge your kids to find things you spot along the way: “Find me a root vegetable” or “Find me something red!” you can say.

Don’t forget to check out the other fun that a farmers’ market has to offer while you’re there.

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Travis got to sample fresh lemonade, pick out a toy made from organic catnip for our cat, check out homemade crafts, and more. Nibbling a bite of fresh basil was a must!

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Babies love the scents and sounds of a farmers’ market, too, so consider adding this to your summer hit-list of baby field trips!

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As it turns out, we couldn’t locate everything on our scavenger hunt ingredient list, but we did find perfect corn, and the biggest scallions we’d ever seen!

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So when we got home, we improvised the salad. We had beautiful local peaches in place of the nectarines, and no blueberries (but the salad was just fine without them!), and added lots more basil and scallions than called for since we had a big bounty. I present to you, our Farmers Market Corn and Peach Salad.

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Ingredients:

  • 3 ears fresh corn
  • 2 peeled and chopped ripe peaches
  • 1/4 cup chopped scallions
  • 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon fresh-squeezed lime juice
  1. Cut the kernels from the corn cobs and place in a large bowl.
  2. Add the remaining ingredients and stir to combine.

Potato Corn Chowder

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This creamy blended soup is perfect almost any time of year. Use fresh corn in the summer or canned corn when it’s out of season. Although the ingredient list is longer than I generally strive for with kids’ meals, it comes together fairly quickly.

Ingredients:

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/2 cup chopped white onion
  • 1 minced garlic clove
  • 2 small red potatoes
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 (15-ounce) can corn
  • 1 cup vegetable broth
  • 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
  • 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
  • Sliced green onions (optional)
  • Chopped, cooked vegan bacon (optional)
  1. Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic; saute for 3 minutes.
  2. Peel and chop the potatoes. Add to the pot, along with the salt and black pepper; cover and steam for 4 minutes.
  3. Stir in the corn, broth, and milk; bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for about 5 minutes.
  4. Transfer the mixture to a blender, along with the nutritional yeast, and process until smooth. Note: If you prefer, puree only a bit of the soup (about 3/4 cup), and leave the remaining soup chunky.
  5. Ladle into bowls, and top each serving with green onions, bacon pieces, and additional corn kernels as garnish, if desired.

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Q-Tip Painting Indian Corn

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It’s official, the fall equinox is tomorrow, meaning it’s the start of my favorite season, and that we need some autumnal decorations around our home! What better way to celebrate the harvest and this fall crop than with a cute little craft involving real hay?

I cut half ovals from yellow construction paper to be ears of corn, and shapes from brown construction paper to be the husks.

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Travis hasn’t been so into painting projects lately, so to keep this one novel, we use q-tips as our paintbrushes! Little dots of red, yellow, and orange gave our corn the speckled appearance of Indian corn.

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Glue your husks to your corn shapes, and let dry.

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The biggest hit by far was when I told Travis we’d add real hay to our corn husks. Look for it at any craft store or farmers’ market this time of year.

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Definitely the perfect finishing touch.

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