Today’s Stone Fruit and Port Galette recipe symbolizes the seasonal transition when late summer succumbs, just a bit, to the approaching fall.  It’s the unofficial end of summer.  School starts next week, much to the chagrin of two certain children, the peach trees are bearing less fruit, and we’ve spied early pumpkins on the vine at our local farm.  Last night’s temperature hovered in the low 50s and the kids asked for hot cocoa, I was happy to oblige.  It was the perfect night for a backyard movie with warm sweaters and cozy socks to stave off the chill.   Autumn is certainly in the air!

If you are looking to up-the-ante and give traditional corn a flavorful kick-in-the-cob, look no further than this Summer Corn with Chili-Lime Mayo. For me, corn on the cob will always conjure up nostalgic memories of summer.   We’d gather and grill in my grandmother’s small concrete backyard of her 4-story apartment building in urban New Jersey, eating and talking outside amidst the low hum of the window air conditioning units, while the summer heat made our bare legs stick to the plastic fold-away lounge chairs (it was the 1980s).  My grandmother would secure our buttery corn cobs with little yellow plastic picks, the ones that resembled mini corn, so…