Recipes from Helle

I guess thats what you would call this particular recipe. I came up with it this morning quite by accident and thought I ought to share it with you all as it is a wonderful summer garden dish. Its a really simple side for whatever sort of evening you may have planned. I made a very small experimental dish of this so feel free to adjust the amounts on this recipe. The current measurments make about 2 cups of relish or whatever you want to call it.

• 2 ears of sweet corn
• 1/2 cup diced tomatoes (preferably fresh, but I don’t have any ripe yet so I used canned with great success)
• 3/4 red whine vinegar (gives a nice sweet and sour touch)
• 3 spicy banana peppers

So this is really pretty simple. Toss the ears of corn into lightly salted water and bring to a boil. Cook at a rolling boil for 3 minutes and remove from heat. In the meantime, thinly slice the banana peppers into rings and place in a bowl covering with the red wine vinegar. Add the tomatoes and stir. Run cold water over the ears of corn till they are cool enough to handle. (An alternative is to use leftover corn from another meal) Stand the corn on end and slice off the kernels and add to the rest of the ingredients. Mix thoroughly and refrigerate for a couple of hours. Its that simple! And its delicious. Don’t ask me how to serve this tho, because I just came up with it today. I plan to serve it as a topping for a garden fresh salad along with marinated artichoke hearts. Sound good? I think so.

Bon Apetit!