With gray skies, falling rain and cooler temperatures moving in, you know it’s August in Fairbanks.

If we’re lucky, and we should be going in to September, we should have at least a few more good weekends to celebrate the end of summer. The perfect way to do that is with this nod to Mexican street corn.

It’s often called elote, and it’s basically the Mexican name for grilled corn on the cob. It’s usually loaded up with cilantro, crema, onions and seasonings. If you want to make it a little easier to spoon into your mouth — literally — you can call it esquites. That’s the name for the grilled corn that is removed from the cob, seasoned and flavored, and eaten with a spoon from a cup or a bowl. Either way you make it, it’s delicious and a great accompaniment to end of summer grill sessions

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