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Olathe Sweet Corn Salsa – Recipe & Directions

Sometimes it’s nice to just stay home and have a little romance and fun while cooking together. Cooking together cuts the work in half and creating a meal together can be really sexy.

Sometime the week before, visit your local Farmers Market  and you should be able to have all of the ingredients for a fabulous Grilled Corn Salsa with a little California twist.

Visit your local farmers Market this week and purchase:

• 6 ears of Olathe Sweet Corn,
• 2 Poblano Peppers,
• 1 Jalapeno or Anaheim Pepper (optional)
• 1 bunch of cilantro (optional)
• 1 red pepper (optional)
• 1 red onion
• 1 Tbsp local honey
• Juice of one fresh lime juice
• 2 avocado’s (optional) – California twist
• Salt and pepper to taste

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Directions

1. Turn your grill on to medium to preheat.
2. Leave the husks on the corn and soak them in water. Remove the silks but leave the husks on. The water trapped inside the husks steams the sweet corn for the most amazing results. . it’s ok if they look burned.. it will be fabulous!  Grill on medium heat for 15 to 20 minutes.
3. Place your peppers on the grill for 15 minutes or until they are blistered.  Take them off the grill and immediately put them in a plastic bag. This makes it much easier to take the outside skins off. After a few minutes in the bag, peel the skins off, pull off the stem and the inside membranes and chop.
4. Chop the red onion and cilantro finely.
5. Shuck the cooled corn and hold either on the top of a bunt pan like the video shows or with a smaller bowl inverted into a bigger bowl and slice the kernels off of the corn cob.
6. Into the bowl of corn, combine all of the ingredients of choice above. If you love avocado chop it in the skin into cubes and add at the last minute so it keeps its shape.
7. Spread tortilla chips on a baking sheet and heat at 400 for 3 minutes. Even if your chips are a little stale this will make them taste fresh, crispy and hot.
8. You can even eat this with a spoon it’s so wonderful.
9. Keep it simple with the meat or fish to go with it.  Brush Extra Virgin Olive Oil on any meat, chicken or fish and season with salt and pepper adding any other seasoning you prefer.  Grill after you take the corn off the grill and serve up along side it.

The inspiration for this Salsa came from Barb at Vino Luci’s recipe. As usual I didn’t have everything she listed in her recipe and I like things a bit spicier so I added the Anaheim pepper that I had on hand. I thought I had some cilantro but didn’t but I did have some Avocado’s so we gave those a try. The combinations of the the spice of the peppers, sweet of the honey and smooth of the avocado was unbelievably delicious.

Keep it simple with the meat or fish to go with it.  Brush Extra Virgin Olive Oil on any meat, chicken or fish and season with salt and pepper adding any other seasoning you prefer.  Grill the meat after you take the vegetables off.

Pour a glass of your favorite wine, enjoy the meal, each other and a DVD at home.