Few weeks back, I joined the madness and shared my first instavideo after a long photo shoot. Once done, we sat for lunch and gobbled up what we prepared together (yes, it was one of those weekends). After a while, I checked my instafeed and turns out the video reached close to 700+ likes in like an hour (woot!) and a comment that said I reached the popular page. Wow, that’s something! Of course, I was excited and thrilled but what followed after that was horrible. There were a series of nasty, rude and mean comments. I just don’t understand what fun do people find in saying such awful stuffs! All that ‘yay, in popular page’ turned to ‘bleh, I hate it’. The next few hours, I kept deleting and blocking users. Yeah, I figured it’s pointless to react.
I guess, this is how two sides of a coin work.
Likewise, my still-no-rain hot sunny days have a fulfilling happy side to it. Summer produce and I cannot get enough of those in my diet.
A visit to the farmers market and we come back with bag loads of stone fruits, watermelons, berries, zucchini blossoms, mangoes, summer corns and lots of heirloom tomatoes. It can be overwhelming at times with such different varieties of summer produce. These tiny heirloom tomatoes that we bought last time were not only cute as buttons but also sweet as candy. And for someone like me who enjoys photographing food, I find it very hard to not make a blog post out of it! Also, since the next day was Sunday and we planned to stay at home, grilled lunch happened effortlessly.
Go simple but go flavorful was the idea. Yogurt and spice marinated grilled salmon is always delicious but the star of the meal was the grilled corn salad with roasted tomatoes. And the gorgeous red chili oil vinaigrette added to the flavor magic. We poured some chilled beer, got some crusty bread on the side and relished the meal we prepared together. Aren’t weekends just so lovely!
And if you are wondering what was that video which received a lot of love and hate, it was this corn salad and grilled salmon that I tried to put on a slice of bread. Here is the link if you are interested!
Grilled Salmon With Corn And Heirloom Tomato Salad
Ingredients
for chili oil lemon vinaigrette
- zest of 1 lemon
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1 cup chili oil
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- freshly cracked black pepper
for the corn salad
- 1 lb cherry tomatoes
- 2 corns on the cob
- 2 shallots (finely chopped)
- 1 cup finely chopped fresh mint
for the grilled salmon
- 4 slices of salmon fillet
- 2 tablespoons yogurt
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- salt
Instructions
for chili oil lemon vinaigrette
- In a glass jar, pour all the ingredients and whisk until they're all mixed into a smooth vinaigrette.
for the corn salad
- Rub a little bit of oil on the corn and grill it in medium high heat by turning it occasionally. This should take about 30 minutes. In the mean time, throw the tomatoes in a baking pan, drizzle with some oil and roast for about 35 minutes.
- Once corn is grilled, remove the kernel by allowing it to stand on a wide bowl and using a sharp knife, slice downwards.
- In the same bowl, add shallots, roasted tomatoes, fresh mint and vinaigrette. Give it a toss and it’s done.
for the grilled salmon
- Marinate the salmon with yogurt, cumin powder, chili powder and salt. Let it rest for an hour.
- Once ready, grill it at medium heat for about 6 minutes on each side. Make sure after you place the salmon fillet on the grill, you do not move it or else, it will tear apart. Once it’s cooked through, it will easily come off and you will get a perfect grill mark too.
Notes
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nipponnin
I love the 'mood' in these photo. I don't know how to describe but...nostalgic, warmth...like that. Wonderful job! Lovely recipe, I'm going to make this weekend!
Eileen
corn and tomatoes are two of the vegetables that make the heat of summer worthwhile. 🙂 This looks delicious--and I love the pairing with grilled salmon!
Sarah Walton
Don't listen to the evil comments. If it's not constructive, then the criticism only makes the commenter look bad. Love your shots - the gentle smokiness is a real treat to look at. And those tomatoes - makes me jealous. I'm in Dubai, and we don't get any fresh local toms at this time of year, it's just WAY too hot. Keep up the good work
Nik@ABrownTable
I just made this for lunch today, it was delicious Kankana! Don't bother about the haters, sigh blogging sure does expose us to the good and bad sides of technology.
Asha
Ugh! That is so annoying. Negativity can be such a downer... Glad you aren't paying too much credit to it! 🙂
sowmya
Stunning pics and those tomatoes are so cute.. I remember watching the video u uploaded.. It really made me hungry..
Shruti@PartTimeChef
Two sides of a coin indeed..Glad that you took it in your stride. Colourful and beautifully styled photos. Gorgeous!
Deepa
Stunning pics and those tomatoes are too cute for words!
Little Kitchie
These photos are breathtaking!!
Nandita
Marvellous picture. Just loved that blue plate. Looks so dainty 🙂
Vishakha
Me and V are huge Salmon fans! Both the salmon and the salad look and sound absolutely delicious! Beautiful pictures ..the blue bowls and plates just add such a fresh / beach / sea feel to the images. Lovely!
Angie@Angiesrecipes
So summery and beautiful! These photos are dreamy and fantastic.
Sorry about those nasty comments...just ignore them.
Angie
Lizzy (Good Things)
As a post script, I am truly sorry to hear about the negative and nasty comments. Keep up the great work!
Lizzy (Good Things)
How lovely.... I can feel the sunshine streaming through this post!
Sarah
People will always be nasty! They can't seem to help themselves. But you do awesome work, do don't let the haters get you down. 🙂
indugetscooking
Lovely, lovely pics as always.
And look at the bad comments in a positive way. They say that people throw stones only at trees that bear good fruit!
Rosa
Scrumptiously summery! Heirloom tomatoes are so pretty and taste amazing.
Gorgeous clciks, as usual.
Forget about those mean people. They are just jealous. Unfortunately, the world is populated with as many good individuals as bad ones...
Cheers,
Rosa
Ash- foodfashionpart
I am not even kidding when I say, MY husband would love love and finish that plate now if he can. Stunning pics as usual.
About the nasty stuff...I know how hard it is to deal with stuff like that. I just don't get it,why hate:(, but I'm glad you moved on. Life is beautiful with a lot of beautiful people.
Peachy @ TPK
You are such an inspiration and I love your photos! Just ignore all those nasty things! I love that chili oil and lemon vinaigrette and I will make it one of these days...
Reem
Beautiful! !
I remember this video. . It made me really hungry. . 🙂
Gorgeous Pics as always... b/w I have the same turquoise bowls... you just made them look so pretty in pics. ..