Corn is a special side dish in Jennifer Garner’s household.
The 52-year-old actress shared a cooking video of her kids making a creamed corn recipe that they’ve dubbed “Grandma Corn.” As the name suggests, it’s her mom, Patricia Ann “Pat” Garner, who created the delicious dish, so she joined Jennifer in an Instagram post on Sunday, June 2.
“Grandma’s Corn 🌽 My sisters and I grew up eating this corn. Tastes like summer,” Garner captioned the video from “Pretend Cooking Show.”
“I make it without sugar and they seem to have no problems eating it – although of course the kids prefer it made by the Queen herself. We love their grandma,” she added.
The mother-daughter duo worked together to create a variation on creamed corn that Pat, 86, learned from her neighbor, Marge Aldredge, who is mentioned in the caption and greeting.
Their demonstration is complete with some fun conversation and footage of Pat throwing corncobs “for the bears” in his West Virginia backyard.
In one of the opening clips, alias As Pat cuts the corn off the cob, the graduate nervously but lovingly chides her: “Mommy? Mommy? Don’t cut it at yourself.”
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“Then cut it off!” Pat replied, admitting that that was the only option.
Jennifer eventually took over, telling Pat, “Mom, there’s no question about you. But right now, all of America is worried about you. And so are a lot of people in England, Brazil and other countries.”
She also confessed that while watching her mother prepare corn, she realized she’d been cooking it wrong “for the last 18 years of raising children”: Instead of using just the tips of the kernels to soften them, like Pat did, she was cutting off the whole kernel.
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Still, Jennifer says her children Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12, whom she has with ex-husband Ben Affleck, often request corn dishes.
Jennifer and Pat discussed seasoning the food and whether they had actually seen a bear eat the corn cob that Pat had tossed over the hill (they hadn’t, but wish they had).
“It’s so good. Thank you, Mom,” Jennifer said, tasting her creamed corn at the end of the episode.
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Jennifer has been spending quality time with Pat since her father, William, passed away in March at the age of 85. Over Memorial Day weekend in May, Jennifer took Pat to see her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and her parents were there when Jennifer received her star in 2018.
“It’s still there,” she wrote on her Instagram Story alongside a photo of her feet resting on the star. She also snapped a photo of Pat standing on the star.
