This is an easy one dish dinner that my wife and I like to have every now and then. Use this recipe more as a guide to create your own warm pasta salad meals.

Serve this simple side dish over a bed of crisp greens with a light vinagrette in place of your regular dinner salad.

This recipe came about because I was needing a chile fix one night and I just looked through the pantry and refridgerator to see what was available. Since that night this dish has become one of my favourite midnight snacks and, since it makes too much to finish comfortably in one sitting, lunch at work the next day.

It does not have the rich flavoured sauce like Dave's kung pao chicken. It goes straight for the throat with the flavour and heat of Chinese tien tsin chiles riding in on a rich tasty wave of sesame oil.

This simple salad is best made when the corn is fresh from the field. I have made it with canned and frozen corn and it was okay, but it was not as good as when I used fresh corn.