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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I'm looking for a good salsa recipe. For the first time I'm being buried in tomatoes and need to make into something.
64 posted on 07/31/2009 8:23:35 AM PDT by painter (No wonder democrats don't mind taxes.THEY DON'T PAY THEM !)
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To: painter; All

Salsa! Love it!

I usually wing it because I’ve made it for so many years, but here is a very good recipe I made up long ago:

Too Many Tomatoes (Fresh) Salsa

5 or 6 medium sized fresh tomatoes, any color combo, cored and finely diced
1/2 red or sweet white onion, finely diced
1 jalapeño chili pepper, stems, ribs, seeds removed*, finely diced

*Use a SPOON to take out the seeds and ribs of the jalapeno pepper. Yes, your thumbnail works just FINE, but you will pay for it dearly, LOL!

A ‘drizzle’ of good olive oil
A ‘splash’ of red wine or balsamic vinegar
1 Tbsp. of chopped garlic
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro OR 1 heaping teaspoon of ground cumin
Salt and pepper to taste (I don’t add salt to anything when I’m cooking)

Chop, mix, eat. :)

Just keep bumping up the amounts to fit your tomato harvest.

If you want a cooked salsa try this recipe. It’s made in your crock pot so you don’t have to heat up the house by running the stove:

http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Slow-Cooked-Salsa

And here’s a recipe for cooked salsa, using up about 40 roma-type tomatoes at a time for salsa. If you need to use a combination of tomatoes, just slowly cook it down longer to make it less ‘wet.’

http://www.recipezaar.com/Easy-Cooked-Salsa-30052

You can’t go wrong with either ‘Taste of Home’ or ‘RecipeZaar’ recipes, IMHO. Both are great sites and the recipes always turn out right.

I also like fruit in my salsa, though it drives Husband ‘round the bend, LOL! Add crushed (canned, drained) pineapple to ANY salsa recipe and it’s a winner to me. :)


108 posted on 07/31/2009 5:20:08 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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