Sylvia's Scenario

I have another summer garden recipe but it's not zucchini this time. We also have an abundance of tomatoes.  Depending on what you have in your garden, this recipe also has corn, pototoes, basil, chives, and dill.  But even if you don't have a garden, this is a good summer soup anyway.  The corn-on-the-cob this summer has been amazingly sweet.  When I saw this recipe, the first thing I thought of was "Oh boy! I can buy more corn!"  The other thing I thought of was how I can use some coho salmon that Lauren brought home from Alaska.  She returned last week after a visit there for the first time to spend some time with her boyfriend's family who is from Alaska.  And they did A LOT of fishing.    Her boyfriend's parents have two boats; a working boat and a recreational boat and they went out in both multiple times. They caught so much fish and Lauren caught some, too.  She was thrilled.  I can't believe how much she knows about fishi...

I recently returned from a trip to Iowa where Bruce and I visited his parents and a few nieces and nephews.  Bruce is from Iowa and we actually lived there a couple years in our early days of marriage and the main thing I remember about those days is all the corn. Lots and lots of corn growing in Iowa. Everywhere you look. I didn't know until I moved to Iowa that all this corn you see is growing to feed cattle, not for people.  I remember when Bruce started explaining to me how it all works.  The Iowa corn goes to animal feed, or for seeds to grown more corn, or for making inexpensive additives for processed foods.  I was so confused about it at the time.  But it did explain why Bruce always called corn-on-the-cob "sweet corn". I finally said to him during our early days of dating in Seattle, "why do you always say 'sweet corn', all corn is sweet!"  I wasn't from Iowa so I didn't know that there was 'seed corn' and '...