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Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.” Today’s Oldie But Goodie recipe is for Spicy Corn and Chile Salad. It’s just the thing to warm up those cold winter days. You…
Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.” Today’s Oldie But Goodie recipe is for a Spicy Corn and Chile Salad . You’ll find it here. You don’t want to miss…
We’re under an extreme heat “dome” here in SoCal.
An hour ago Alexa told me the temperature was 104 degrees F. Just now, with a little more cloud cover, Alexa says it is 84 degrees F. Is that kind of precipitous temperature drop even possible?
I suspect the extreme heat here in Southern California is affecting Alexa’s judgment. Don’t get me wrong; Juliet and I will take what we can get. We’re hating this heat. It is so hot and uncomfortably-humid here that even the bouncy little squirrel who lives in the tree in our backyard has lost his customary perk. He normally torments Juliet and leaps from branch to branch in the tree. This morning he is stretched out on one of the limbs with his sweet little “arms” dangling over the sides and a “What The $#&!” look in his beady little eyes. It’s that hot.
Since we are in the midst of this heatwave, I opted for a recipe for a raw corn and chiles salad rather than revving up my stove. It is a Lidey Heuck recipe from The New York Times and it is cool and wonderful.You can find the original recipe here.
Here is the recipe as I prepared it in my kitchen. I didn’t have shishito chiles and it was too hot to drive to a market to search for them, so I substituted a large green pasilla chile.
