Eat fresh.
Eat Maryland.

What to Do When the Market Has More Than You Can Eat

Sometime in late July you will stand at a farmers market booth with eight ears of Silver Queen in your hands and wonder if you should buy more. Buy more. Cut the kernels off the cob, spread them on a sheet pan to freeze individually, then transfer them to a bag, and you are done in fifteen minutes. Corn frozen this way in July tastes closer to August than anything in a grocery store freezer will in February. The same logic applies to blueberries from a pick-your-own operation like Larriland Farm in Woodbine or Butler's Orchard in Germantown. Rinse them, dry them, freeze them on the pan, bag them. No blanching, no processing, no equipment beyond what you already own.