“Grandma’s Sneaky Corn Pickles” in Chilled Corn Soup  

Corn. It’s literally everywhere right now and couldn’t be cheaper. $0.50 a cob is pretty standard, so I picked up, almost literally, a bushel at the Union Square Farmer’s Market during #cornweek last week.

What a good decision and conveniently I received an email from Tasting Table right after I got home touting the virtues of chilled corn soup. What better way to showcase the natural flavors of August gold!

This one goes out to my grandma, who, at 80+ years, has recently taken up a second career as an NSA operative and exhibits greater skills in Internet monitoring than any other member of our family. She, along with my grandfather, also happens to have a somewhat unhealthy obsession with “Brentwood corn,” which lamentably is 3,000 miles away from me in New York. Luckily local corn from the GrowNYC Farmer's Market makes for a nice, if possibly slightly inadequate, substitute.

The star of this is dish is the subversive little corn pickles (pictured below because, as I discovered, soup is difficult to photograph in a lunch box in an appealing way). Just like grandma, they’re a much more clever addition than you’d expect! They impart pretty much all of the flavor and take 10 minutes to prep. My new favorite summer treat! Don’t even think about skipping them.