I’m obsessed with dill. It changes everything it’s added to.

*Digression. In my recent adventures in Hollywood-land, I left my regular cooking gig for a new “fancy” gig that promised significantly better compensation. In a series of funny/shocking/sad events, I am no longer at the fancy gig. Anyway, I’ve been MIA and regrouping. Call me for the scoop if you want more. I may write a comic about it. Back to salad…

Summer! Fresh Corn!

This is my brother’s favorite salad. It was born from a July trip to the farmer’s market in Silverlake. Sometimes I add cilantro in addition to the dill. Sometimes I add radish. This is a flexible recipe.

Cilantro and dill are both strong flavors, but they actually work when combined together.

Summer Corn Salad
1-2 Ears fresh corn
English Cucumber, or Persian Cucumber
Cherry Tomatoes, Yummy Tomatoes
Dill
Cilantro
Lime Juice
Safflower or Grape seed oil
Cumin
Flake salt

I cut off the corn from the cob. I taste the corn, if it tastes awesome, it can be eaten raw. Generally, I heat up a tiny bit of oil in a pan and and cook the corn with about a 1/2 Teaspoon of ground cumin. Once the corn is just slightly browned, I transfer it into a bowl and cool it off in the fridge or freezer.

While the corn is cooling, I chop up the rest of the ingredients.

Mix everything together, drizzle with oil (olive oil is too strong tasting, so I use grape seed or safflower), squeeze lime juice over it, sprinkle with salt and pepper, toss and serve.

It’s very refreshing and summery. Also very good with black beans if you want to make more of a meal out of the salad.

*The post should really be titled “thoughts in progress.” I’m not cynical about love; despite (or inspite) of my own fair share of debilitating heartache. I’m actually a romantic. What I’m interested in is a new model of romance. The hollywood stuff, the novels of yore, and the engagement photo albums on facebook aren’t cutting it…for me. I’m not sure they’re working for anyone. In my comic, I’m specifically interested in the feelings of INSANITY. The feeling you get when you meet someone, and you lose your mind (sometimes after only one conversation, one cup of coffee, one kiss). Your world stops, logic stops, normal behavior stops. That kind of feeling has been misleading and false in my experience. In contrast, when I’ve met someone that I slowly develop feelings for, it seems to work out “better” (for lack of a better descriptor). But maybe I’m wrong?

*To be clear (and I know it’s in the comic itself), Jon gave me permission to comic about him. Anything that happened is fair game. Jon and I weren’t good at being a couple, but we’re really good at being friends.

To any other ex-boyfriends: don’t worry, I promise to ask permission first.

TO BE CONTINUED…

PS One thing about the crazyness of not really having a permanent home, is that my scanner is in storage :( And since I haven’t been in an office, I can’t use their scanner. So that’s why the comix look a little less clear and perfect than I would like. You can also see the edge of my finger holding down the post-it (because my brother has no tape in his house, and that is where I am right now).