Southwestern Chicken Salad

This is my new favorite salad! I have an inkling it will be yours too, if you adore southwest flavors half as much as I.

A mix of crisp and cool romaine and iceberg lettuces tossed with corn fresh from the cob, earthy black beans, meaty olives, tomatoes and red onion then topped with homemade tortilla strips for crunch and tender, rotisserie chicken. [Read more...]

Blueberry and Corn Salsa

Blueberries and corn.

An unlikely combination you don’t often see together and your first clue this might not be your everyday salsa.

Would you believe me if I said the combination is full of potential?

Three possibilities depending on whether you use it as a salsa, relish or salad. [Read more...]

Beef and Corn Enchiladas with Spinach Cream Sauce

Corn tortillas filled with ground beef and corn then smothered in a vibrant, green spinach sauce and baked until hot and bubbly. The filling is mildly spiced so as not to detract from the clean, sharp taste of the sauce, the true star of the show. [Read more...]

Corn with Queso, Cilantro and Chile (Mexican Street Corn)

This recipe gets its inspiration from Mexican street corn. Piping hot corn on the cob is smeared with mayonnaise and dredged with Queso or Cotija cheese, fresh cilantro, chile powder, lime and plenty of salt and pepper. [Read more...]

Roasted Corn in Chile Coconut Milk

I have been obsessed all summer long with the combination of corn and coconut milk! The two ingredients naturally complement one another, so well it’s almost as if they were created for each other. I like the result that comes from marinating my ears of corn overnight in it. Not only does it plump up the kernels but the existing juiciness and sweetness of the corn is amplified, the flavors intensify giving the corn a melt-in-your-mouth characteristic that I am addicted to. [Read more...]