My oldest-one-of-three put a big smile on my face this evening when she walked into the kitchen and began her crazy antics and gave me a hug - all because I had made salsa!
I began baking when I was much, much younger and in my momma's kitchen, and I haven't stopped baking or cooking since. To me, one of life's joys is to be able to make something yummy and have people enjoy eating it. Give me a house full of people, a kitchen full of food, and I'm happy!
Tonight, my youngest-one-of-three and I picked some tomatoes from our garden; jalapenos were harvested a few days ago. Our dinner menu for this evening included tacos so the obvious side dish was salsa. I began several years ago making fresh salsa and my three kids and the hubster eat it up. It's quite a mystery to me though. If I put any of the individual ingredients in front of them, they wouldn't touch any of them with a ten foot pole! Put them all together though, give them a few pulses in the food processor, open a bag of tortilla chips, and the kiddos come running.
As we were eating dinner and dipping into the salsa bowl, my oldest says, "Have you made out your will?" I responded, "Maybe..." Her reply, "Well, you have to add the salsa recipe to it and will it to me!" My reply - another smile!
Here's my ingredient list if you want to give it a try. Amounts are more or less to taste; there's really no recipe. My hope is that it will bring smiles to your home as well.
Roma tomatoes - 5 or 6 usually
jalapenos - 1-2
2-3 cloves of garlic
red onion - maybe 1/2, depends on how strong it is
handful of cilantro
salt - maybe a tsp
sugar - maybe a tsp
Put everything in a food processor and pulse away! If it's too spicy, add more tomatoes.
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| I added yellow pear tomatoes tonight as well just because we have surplus from the garden! |
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