We love our garden, and our cows do, too! We went seriously big with our garden this year – a quarter of an acre. (An acre is about the size of a football field.) And we had some seriously big problems at the beginning of the summer. We lost a lot of seedlings to heat and weeds, so we replanted a lot of things very late in the season. I actually just picked our first zucchini in the middle of August!
We have four things that are doing really well this year – blackberries, sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes. I made 3 dozen half-pints of blackberry jelly. We are selling sweet corn at our family’s veterinary practice. I have canned 70 quarts (!!) of green beans this year, and the tomatoes are just getting ready to make some serious fruit.
Raise your hand if you are excited about corn season as I am! (Insert hand-raise emoji) Oven Roasted Corn on the Cob is the perfect side dish for cookouts and parties. Juicy sweet corn smothered with butter, parmesan cheese and fresh parsley. Eeekkk. I might have just squeal a little in excitement.
Okay, well, it’s not the corn’s fault. It’s mine. But for conversation-sake, let’s just blame it on the corn for now since the husks caught on fire.
Fortunately enough, the flames died down and the corn was left unharmed, charred and roasted to absolute perfection.
Ingredients
5 ears corn, husks and silk removed
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
Cut 5 squares of aluminum foil 1 1/2 times the size of the ears of corn; place each ear of corn in the center of a piece of foil.
Stir mayonnaise, Parmesan cheese, chili powder, ground black pepper, and fresh parsley together in a bowl until it forms a thick paste; rub about 2 tablespoons of the paste over each ear of corn. Wrap the aluminum foil around the corn and seal. Arrange corn on a baking sheet.
Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes, turn, and continue baking another 10 minutes.