We have received the gift of vegetables from our friend Erik and by vegetables I mean a huge produce box of assorted veggies. I’m gonna be spending the foreseeable future cooking a lot of different veggies so buckle up kids because we’re in for an adventure. Erik’s a teacher in a nearby school and his school was doing some sort of vegetable/food drive and he managed to have a lot of boxes to give to his friends. I’m not exactly sure what happened but I’m not mad about it. The box came with fresh corn on the cob, cherry tomatoes, a cucumber, acorn squash, zucchini, lettuce, a bell pepper, and potatoes. We don’t tend to go through veggies too quickly so this is gonna be a trick and I’m gonna guess I’ll be eating the bulk of it because Caleb is pretty indifferent to veggies.
This was the perfect time to get a recipe via Instagram from Jenna Fisher from The Office. I’ve been following her lately because of her podcast with Angela Kinsey about their time on the show but Jenna also posts other things going on in her life and different things that she’s currently promoting. She’s currently doing a partnership with King’s Hawaiian bread and flashed a recipe on her story for this Avocado Corn Salad. I managed to get a screen shot of the recipe because I’m not sure where her physical copy is from exactly but she loves it and the ingredients looked like something I could tackle so I gave it a shot.
This was a great use of some of the veggies we got and all I had to do was buy some avocados and we were ready to roll. I followed the recipe which was pretty simple and made my own salad. Caleb also picked some orange cherry tomatoes at work in their garden so I used these which was a cute softer touch to the salad. I didn’t make a full batch because I was going to be the only one eating it and I tend to get bored of dishes and I’m not a fan of eating them every day for the whole week. I also cut back on tomatoes a little because I’m not a huge fan of them but in the end they added such a nice fresh acidic brightness. The cucumbers were a great crunch and the corn was a little sweet which worked so well with the creamy buttery avocado. Everything was balanced and really good. I would recommend this to anyone who likes these ingredients and wants a quick fresh salad. I’m getting a little avocado fatigue so I would hold off on making this again but it’s really my kind of salad.