Kristi's Creamed Corn | Bill & Kristi Hustedt

Ingredients

• Eight ears sweet corn, in husks
• Quarter pound (one four-ounce stick) salted butter
• Third-cup all-purpose flour
• One cup half & half
• Two cups whole milk
• Half of a small yellow onion, peeled, cored and cut in 1/4-inch dice
• Half of a red bell pepper, stemmed, seeded and cut in 1/4-inch dice
• Two cloves garlic, peeled and minced
• One cup grated pepper Jack cheese
• One cup grated sharp Cheddar cheese
• One tablespoon Tabasco Sauce
• Half-teaspoon grated nutmeg
• One teaspoon salt
• One teaspoon freshly ground white pepper
• Eight slices Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon, cooked until crisp, then crumbled
• One bunch of chives, chopped (to make a quarter-cup)