this week's stovetop: black bean and corn salsa

Last weekend was HOT in Cambridge, and even stove top cooking was painful. Anticipating a similarly hot week ahead, this week was featured lots of salads: a black bean and corn salsa to use the 8 ears of corn and some of the tomatoes I got from my half of a Red Fire Farm CSA Food Share, a shell pasta + caprese salad that made good use of fresh basil (and more of the tomatoes!), standard lettuce side-salads and a veggie-full cheesy polenta I whipped up on Wednesday night when I finished the salsa.

The best of the week's meals? The salsa, hands-down. Check it out for yourself here: http://www.food.com/recipe/black-bean-and-corn-salad-dip-66294

in the sky

This week, I learned that an asteroid has been named for my friend Michele, who we lost this past spring.  While it's dubious I'll ever find asteroid 15338 myself perusing the night sky (it's one of the many asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter), I'm glad it's up there.