Corn and Blueberry Salad

4 ears of fresh corn

1 cup of blueberries

1 large cucumber, sliced

1/4 cup finely chopped onion (I like red)

1 cup chopped fresh cilantro

1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped

Juice of 1 lime

1 tablespoon of olive oil

1 tablespoon of honey

1/2 teaspoon of ground cumin

Cook the corn: Place in a pot of boiling water, covered, for 5 minutes. And when it’s cool, cut it off the cob.

Make the dressing: Combine lime juice, oil, honey, cumin and a tiny bit of salt.

Put all these things* in a bowl: Combine corn, blueberries, cucumber, onion, cilantro,  jalapeno and dressing.

And you’re done.

*Sometimes I add chicken or shrimp to this. Which is awesome too.

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More to come…

Watch for it.

Also, related, I have a thing for coffee mugs and bowls that sorta resemble coffee mugs. I like them. I like to own them. But they don’t stack well, which isn’t awesome for a kitchen with 60 inches of cabinet space for dishes.

So I’m thinking whenever I get this kitchen fixed up, I’d like to celebrate with brand new matching (matching!) and stackable dishes. Some like this perhaps. From Benjamin Hubert studio. Don’t you just love the little matching spoons?

It was great to have some of my BFFs from home there.

And one of my super cool Kirtsy partners., Gabrielle Blair

(Babies are the new black, BTW)

(Also the new black…being named one of Time’s Best Sites of 2010! Go Design Mom!)

It was a really fun way to get together with some friends in NYC before the gigantic BlogHer conference.

Liz and Kristen from Cool Mom Picks (and Mom 101 and Motherhood Uncensored) stopped in. Gorgeousness.

And my superhero Liz Stanley.

The woman whom I’ve had on speed dial for the last two months (along with Jordan Ferney above), while putting together a collection of 84 pieces of art to be auctioned off for Gulf Coast Cleanup. It was fun to talk to her about something else for a few minutes.

She’s standing in front of the bathroom that I am stealing.

Heather Barmore looks like she’s up to something here.

And wouldn’t you love to know what Alice and Natalie are hearing back there. It appears to be both shocking and hilarious.

Joanna Goddard opened her first bottle of champagne

(I assume not the first she’s consumed, just the first she’s opened by herself)

And then Jenny promptly drank it.

(And friends, the Mumm champagne was over-the-top yum. My favorite: the red. Red champagne! Seriously.)

Speaking of champagne, I picked up some pomegranate seeds at a little shop on the way to the event.

Pomegranate seeds in champagne = Perfection.

I’ve been craving this almost every day since.

More perfection: Susan Wagner’s necklace.

Here’s another look at it, as she smiled with Chris Jordan (who lives up the road from me, but whom I never see except for when we’re in different states) and Happy Gretchen Rubin (who is 87 shades of awesome.)

And speaking of awesome, I give you: Isabel Kallman’s shoes.

Just think how awesome you would be if you wore these.

Think how high you could jump!

And on the subject of jumping, I’m not sure if this was because of the champagne or because of the shocking and hilarious news they were delivering a few photos above, but Zan and Antonia started to fling themselves out of the window.

Or perhaps they were just catcalling the neighbors.

It’s sometimes hard to tell.

Meanwhile, Jenny and also co-host Helen Jane and I were in the bathroom.

Of course, you may remember I am stealing this bathroom.

And Maggie and I toasted to Mighty Events.

It was a good time.

And you can win a super rad parting gift bag from this Federated Media cocktail party in New York.

A beautiful Lola Epiphanie camerabag stuffed with Photojojo’s Fuji Instax Mini 25 Instant Camera and film.

So amazing right?! I know. I hope you win it.

Just leave a message over at Mighty Girl (it’s linked here), and perhaps it could be yours. That would be awesome.

These soap rings from Nancy Wu Design are high on the list.

The overall design aesthetics of the Ace are classic modern, sparse, simple. Perfect. And the bathroom was a simple, clean, black and white.

I’ve been thinking about the redo of the bathroom in this house…right now it’s a lovely* mossy green…and I’ve thought through a lot of different base color options, but I think the absence of color is just the thing. Especially after seeing the way it was done at the Ace. (*And by lovely, I mean horrible. )I’m not designer (obviously…design friends, help!), but it has a 1920s feel…and not just because we chilled the champagne in the bathtub…which works perfectly in this house. I’m digging the black grout with the white tile. The black doors and trim. The classic faucets and fixtures.  I really love the stencil on the mirror and may just replicate exactly, in tribute to NYC.  Why not? I think the Ace was just the inspiration I needed to get things moving. Wait, that sounded wrong again. Keep thinking about design.

On the way to Jenny’s house, I was crossing the Devil’s Backbone (that’s really what it’s called) and I thought, A.) If I have to go over the Devil’s Backbone to get to Jenny’s new place, that must mean that one of us resides near the Devil’s Brain and one near the Devil’s Asshole. (I don’t want to think about which  lives where.) and B.) I’ve never dug up a dead body before, but surely I can do this. This is what my grandmother would have done. Without blinking. In fact, this is just the kind of thing that randomly occurs in Central Texas. Get used to it.

Oh how my life has changed.

So I went. And it wasn’t all that bad. (Well, it was kind-of bad. But mainly, it was just great to help.) Most importantly, we did it. We took care of it. In 10 minutes time, we were able to lift a major weight that had troubled a friend for days. Not by thinking (obviously) or analyzing, or proselytizing. But by doing.

Teamwork.

Soundtrack: Predictably, The Geto Boyz

Laura’s Salsa a Go-Go

A number of homegrown tomatoes

Jalapeno peppers

Garlic

Onions

Cilantro

Lime

Miller Lite

Salt and pepper

The truth is, I don’t have a recipe for this. I just throw in what I have, and it tastes a little different every time. It all really depends on how many tomatoes I have. And I go from there.

Optimally I put in the following in a food processor and blend: five to eight tomatoes (random sizes and colors…the more different types the better), 2-3 jalapeno peppers, a cup of chopped onions, 3 cloves of chopped garlic, a huge bunch of cilantro, the juice of a whole lime, a cup or less of beer, dash of everything else.

Experiment. And enjoy!

(Listen to them here.)