A Taste of Summer

Slesel Eylül 27, 2022

Corn, Tomato and Zucchini Relish

Cook's Notes: A taste of pure juicy bliss eating tomatoes from your garden. Add in other fresh veggies and you have a taste of summer in a bowl. Recipe adapted Food and Wine Magazine. A product called Ken's Light Northern Italian with Basil and Romano can be substituted for the dressing in this recipe, add right before serving.
Ingredients:

1/4 cup rice wine vinegar

2 TB. packed brown sugar

1/2 tsp. sea salt

1/4 cup olive oil

1 clove garlic minced

1/4 tsp. minced ginger or

1/4 tsp. Dijon mustard

1/4 tsp. pepper

1/4 tsp. ground cumin

3 large ears of corn

2-1/2 cups cherry tomatoes (1/2 inch pieces)

1 cup diced zucchini or yellow squash (1/2 inch pieces)

1/2 cup diced green pepper (1/2 inch pieces)

1/2 cup diced red onion

1 jalapeno, or to taste, minced

3 TB. minced basil

Directions:

In a small saucepan, boil vinegar, brown sugar and salt just until dissolved. Pour in a large bowl.
In same saucepan heat olive oil on a medium heat, add in garlic, mustard, ginger, pepper and cumin. Saute about a 1 minute.
Slowly whisk oil mixture into vinegar mixture and mix well.
Blanch the corn in boiling water 2 minutes, place in an ice bath to cool, cut kernels off cob and add them to the bowl with oil and vinegar mixture.
Add in tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, minced jalapeno, basil and red onion, gently stir mixture.
Refrigerate 4 hours

Stuffed Mini Pepper Poppers

Cook's Notes: Recipe comes from Rosalba via Kathleen. We had a lovely platter with 15 Mini Pepper Poppers set out for a summer appetizer. As we all happily munched away suddenly I discovered we did not get a photo forcing a little creativity to rearrange another dish for a photo.

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