Good ol Fashioned Salsa

Salsa is about as easy a thing that you can make and will probably take about 30 minutes of your time. I have just started playing around with making my own salsa and I can honestly say that I am probably going to keep making my own salsas. You can adjust your salsa anyway you want, and you can make as much of it as you want, where as the store bought stuff your paying $3.00 for 750 ml. I just spent $6.00 and made a big bowl ful that has lasted me 4 days of constant munching.

As I said above you can make your salsa anyway you want but I would recommend that you try the basic recipe first if you haven't make salsa before.

Ingredients

Tomatoes. I used 4 for my recipe.

1/2 Red Onion.

4 jalepenoes, seeded or not seeded depending on if you like it spicy or not, I like mine a bit spicier so I leave the seeds in.

Fresh Cilantro, the mandatory staple of salsas

Juice of 2 limes,

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Black Pepper

Salt to taste

My secret ingredient is some kind of powdered cheese that I will not divulge.

Chop the tomatoes, onion, jalepenoes, and cilantro and put them into a bowl. If you have a food processor then this will be much easier.

Roll the limes to get the juices inside flowing and then cut them in half. Squeeze the lime juice over top of your salsa mix.

Drizzle some Extra Virgin Olive Oil over the mix next until you are satisfied with the amount.

Put in anything else you think would taste good.

Mix your salsa well and add black pepper and salt to taste. Salt is good in salsa because by design it is used to draw the moister out of things. In a salsa the salt will also help all the ingreditent mix their flavours well together.

The taste or your salsa may not be very good if you taste it right after you make it. The reason is you need to let all the flavours of your ingredients mix with each other. I recommend giving your salsa a few hours covered in the fridge or leave it 24 hours.

Remember to love your salsa and it will love you back. Use only the freshest ingredients and if tomaotes are not in season then I don't recommend using them if they are yellow and imported from Nigeria or where ever.

Just grab some nacho chips and go to town. Enjoy.