deliciousness

I am happy to report that our garden is in full harvest mode!  This weekend we picked tomatoes, potatoes, beets, peppers, onions, radishes, basil and other herbs.

Of course, the first thing we made was salsa.  My grandma is the queen of makin' salsa, so I use her recipe, if you can call a "little bit of this and a little bit of that" a recipe.  You can add the ingredients you like and leave the rest out, and you can add extra amounts of the things you love to taste.  We love the taste of the garlic, cilantro and the lime.

Here is the basic salsa recipe:

2 cups chopped, fresh tomatoes
1/2 cup chopped white onion
2 cloves minced garlic
1 chopped jalapeno
juice of 1/2 of a lemon or a lime
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
salt and pepper to taste (sometimes when you can't get the taste just right, you need more salt)

Mix all ingredients together until you like the taste (the jalapenos will get a little hotter as the salsa sits) and then refrigerate it for about 2 hours. Serve it with tortilla chips.

You are going to want to make a lot of this so double it if you have more than a couple of people who will eat it.  The fun thing about salsa is that it is pretty much fat free.  Of course, the chips add fat but if you pile the salsa onto a few chips, you are doing just fine!

Happy snacking!