Whenever my husband asks me what kind of vegetables I want to plant, I always respond that I want a salsa garden.
I love the idea of going out into my yard, picking this, and picking that, and coming up with some delicious salsa.
Our tomatoes started fruiting some weeks ago, but we have been enjoying them as is, and hadn't had "enough" for salsa making.
When the kids pick them right off the vine and pop them in their mouths, when you slice them up and serve them for dinner, and when you just generally keep eating them after you pick them - salsa becomes something far away
But this last week, we had "too many" tomatoes
And finally didn't finish them
I took these beauties off just one of the plants. These are pretty small and not very sweet. The others are like candy.
Neither variety is the best tomatoes for salsa, they have a lot of seeds and because they are so small, there is a lot of skin.
Still, not the best still means, home grown with no pesticides, super delicious and of course, nutritious.
They are pictured next to two pasillas and two jalapenos which also went into the salsa
I also stuck some coriander seeds in there which are currently abundant as two cilantros recently reached their full glory, then died and dried leaving behind bunches of corriander seeds.
I then roasted the whole thing in my gas oven on the highest rack
And then I put it all in my modern day mortar and pestle (ninja) with just a little bit of salt
Voila
Salsa
It was super delicious.
Buying Salsa doesn't break the bank
But being able to have meal staples right outside your yard really does help keep the grocery bill down.
Boring quesadillas with this Helixical Salsa? Not boring at all.
Thank you for taking time to read my post
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