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claudiaGood Eats

Farmers markets are overflowing with corn right now and what we bought last weekend was some of the freshest, most beautiful corn we’ve seen in a long time. Must be all that rain. 🙂

Anyway, here’s a fun salad recipe from the new Keepers cookbook by Kathy Brennan and Caroline Campion. We made it last weekend for a cookout at our place and there was nary a kernel left in sight. Celebrate the seasonal bounty with this easy recipe. You may find yourself making it over and over again.

 

A Most Delicious Corn Salad

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To make:

3 cups fresh corn kernels (about 4 large ears)

6 radishes, thinly sliced

1/3 jalapeno, seeded and ribs removed, finely chopped

3 tbsp fresh lime juice

2 tbsp coarsely shopped cilantro leaves

1-2 tbsp olive oil

Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and season with fine sea salt to taste. Can be stored (covered) in fridge for 1 day. (We served it with a roasted pork BBQ pork butt, homemade jalapeno cornbread and fresh cantaloupe.)

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a day on the down

claudiaFriends, On the Road

This morning I stopped to let a bunny cross the road. He sat up, took a long look at me, then hopped away into a field. He wasn’t worried…nor was he in any particular hurry. It was such a sweet little moment, and made me think of our trip to England this past spring and a day we spent in the countryside, in Hampshire, with painter Aldo Galli, exploring the beautiful (and very real) area known as Watership Down. Aldo created all of the new illustrations in the 40th anniversary edition of the beloved novel named after the same and — lucky for us — has become a friend. Mike and I took only a few photos that day (we were just too busy taking it all in), but Aldo recently sent us some more, this time featuring the big, beautiful rabbits that still inhabit the area, captured during one of the many walks he regularly takes on the Down.

We think the rabbits there have long since accepted him as one of their own.

newtownchurchyardcollageNew Town Churchyard, from the novel

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The Beech Hanger

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pickin’

claudiaOn the Farm, Stuff We Like

Before summer slips on by, were you hoping to visit a farm and pick some fruits and vegetables? This site – pickyourown.org – helps find places nearby where you can pick to your heart’s delight. And folks only pay for what they carry out. There’s also canning tips, pumpkin patches, corn mazes, Christmas tree farms and lots of other good stuff.

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