I’ve been battling a pretty bad pain flare this week, the result of this oppressive heat as well as overdoing it a bit last weekend. I’ve spent most of my time off my feet, but I have summoned up the energy to put together quick dinners the last couple of nights.
Mike brought home some gorgeous bi-color sweet corn on Wednesday, which I cut off the cob and tossed with black beans, garlic scapes, zucchini, heirloom tomatoes and my chile-lime vinaigrette. I reserved a bit of that same vinaigrette to brush over fresh sea scallops before searing them in a hot pan and serving them on top of the corn salad.
On Thursday, I chunked up three big heirloom tomatoes, also from Wednesday’s greenmarket haul, and tossed them with minced Rocambole garlic, a generous amount of salt, some good olive oil and a big handful of green and opal basil from the garden, sliced into chiffonade. I let the tomato mixture marinate on the countertop for about an hour and then tossed it with hot cooked linguine and a mixture of grated Parmagiano Reggiano and Pecorino Romano cheeses.
Mike’s cooking tonight and I plan to take it easy this weekend. Hope you all enjoy whatever you have planned.
Sorry to hear you haven’t been well this week, but damn if you don’t put on a nicer spread when under the weather than most of us do when healthy. Way to show that pain who’s boss!
Hope you feel better soon and have a restful weekend.
Well said Amy!
Jennifer, I couldn’t imagine a more beautiful corn and bean salad topped with scallops. And that corn Mike brought home looks gorgeous! The kernels shine like pearls! Very well done.
I hope you are feeling better!
Thanks, ladies.
That corn looks so good, I was WAY upstate two weekends ago and had some of the first New York State sweet corn of the year, it was so good that I have been jonesin for it ever since. I like your blog, espically the pictures, food is very hard to caputure on film. This was my first visit, but it won’t be my last.
Thanks very much!