The heat broke a few days back and there’s enough energy at the end of the day for some food prep, but not so much full-on cooking. Here’s an all raw recipe that is better the second day. It even puts up in the freezer pretty well. It looks like mostly all corn in the picture, but we got orange tomatoes from a farm stand, so it looks more uniformly yellow than if we’d used red tomatoes.

• tomatoes, minced
• corn, off the cob
• green peppers, minced
• cilantro, finely chopped
• red onion, minced
• green onion, coarsely chopped
• garlic, minced
• red onion, minced
• lemon or lime juice
• tequila
• salt

Mix everything to taste, adding the salt last. Citrus can make food taste more salty than it actually is.

It is a perfect fourth of July. I’ve been swimming with my nephews and snacking and hanging out in the sun with my whole family. We’re firing up the grill and austin, who’s almost 4, is looking forward to corn on the cob.