Today, October 22, 2021, Friday, I stopped by the State Farmers’ Market in Raleigh. My only goal was to see if I could buy some more raw peanuts, and I was able to do that again. This has been a very good year for raw peanuts.

But, as I started to walk up and down the aisle, I immediately noticed some corn on the cob, still in the husk. I thought I had gotten the absolute latest corn on the cob a couple of weeks ago at the Farmers Market, but, no, here was some more. I did walk past this at first. I ended up buying a half dozen of the corn. The sales person was a young Hispanic woman and I told her I thought I had bought the last corn a couple of weeks ago. Asking her where this corn was grown. I think she said it was grown in Johnston County, but whichever, it was NC local. She also said, that you could grow almost anything in NC until the first frost.

I focused on several apple displays and eventually on the way back, stopped and bought several apples/types of apples at one stand. More fried apples;-)

NOTE: Dula Beauty Apples were first grown from Limbertwig apple seeds planted around 1877 by a Julius Abram Dula (1834 – 1915) in Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina. Dula did fruit breeding as a hobby, and introduced fruit spraying in his area. [ https://www.cooksinfo.com/dula-beauty-apples ]

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The corn on the cob was great. I microwaved a couple of ears, with husk still on, for about 5 minutes. When you leave the husk on, or wrap husked ears in wet paper towels, the kernels cook in their own steam. The corn wasn’t tough.

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NOTE [ 10/24/21 ]: I tried the Dula Beauty apple this morning for fried apples. It is a firm apple, sweet but with a tartness. So, I would put the Dula Beauty with the Gala apple as being too tart for the fried apples I like.