Salsa

Ingredients:

  • 3 cloves minced garlic
  • 1/4 onion
  • 1/4 green bell pepper
  • 1/2 of a diced jalapeno pepper (more or less to taste)
  • 1/4 C chopped fresh cilantro (not dried!)
  • juice of 1/2 a fresh lime
  • 1 tsp. sea salt or whatever your favorite salt
  • 8-9 Roma tomatoes
  • 3 tomatillos

Directions:

I’ve often cut everything up by hand. Pulse the food processor or it can make this too blended up and not as good. Consistency should be chunky, not mushy.

Comments:

This can be better or worse the second depending on the pepper – simply add more stuff to it fix it.  The recipe is from my camping food processor cookbook. It was a very cool device that spun blades around kind of like a salad spinner, but it melted into oblivion when our property was consumed in the Black Mountain Fire of ’03. I still sometimes get tears in my eyes when I first smell wildland fires in the summer. This salsa always cures those blues.