Picnic Food
We're attending a big picnic this weekend, one of the few events that I have an old standard recipe to bring. I started making this long, long ago, before I really cooked at all, so by today's standards it's pretty simple, kind of a dump recipe (dump in this, this and this). But it's still quintessential picnic food to me, coming from Colorado. One of my former supervisors used to make something similar, white beans, tuna and red onion, as her picnic staple.
Mine's a corn and black bean salsa. It involves opening, draining and rinsing a can of black beans and a can of corn (dump, dump). Then you add chopped red onion, scallion, tomato and cilantro, cumin and lime juice. It tastes better afer it sits for a bit. I bet fresh corn would be nice, but that's another one of those things I don't get my hands on very often. I serve it with tortilla chips, but I've seen people eat it like a salad, with a fork, too.
My other picnic standard is the fudgy brownies I wrote about awhile back.
Hi Kim!
My friend, Carmen, makes a similar dip with black-eyed peas and a small bit of vinegar. It is our "party" staple and a wonderful leftover snack. I believe it is a former Cooking Light recipe and so, so good. Enjoy the picnic!
hi kim, funny, i've done some posts on picnic recipes as well in june... i just love picnics, discovered them here in the uk where you even get picnic concerts in summer - listen to nice classical music, gaze at the stars in the sky and sip a bottle of whatever with your glorious food... couldn't get any better. i'll try your salsa, my (teenage) daugther's a big fan of sweetcorn so I'll earn some brownie points here! eternally grateful!