Salsa: the miracle food-product

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

FACT: chopping up tomato, garlic, onion, serrano and cilantro with lime juice, tequila and salt is better than salsa.

fixed.

[trippinprincezz13]

FACT: chopping up tomato, garlic, onion, serrano and cilantro with lime juice, tequila and salt is better than salsa.

fixed.

This. I've had a few jarred salsas that aren't bad, but those ones are also usually more than I want to pay for a salsa. Making my own is just cheaper, more delicious and pretty easy.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

FACT: chopping up tomato, garlic, onion, serrano and cilantro with lime juice, tequila and salt is better than salsa.

fixed.

well yeah. but I really wanted to use giant exclamation points.

[Suu]

I am perfectly happy with Tostitos jarred salsa. In fact, I won't eat ANYTHING ELSE. Pace sucks. Old El Paso really sucks. If I gotta have it from a jar, it's Tostitos or GTFO.

I also like their cheese dip.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

b-b-b-b-b-but

b-but it's so easy to make.
like seriously. ten minutes, boom, fresh yummy salsa

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The jar kind is handy to keep around because it's basically pickled, and keeps forever.

You can also jar your own, which is a nice thing to do with extra garden tomatoes. I didn't get to do it this year because my housemate kept insisting she wanted to do things with the tomatoes, then picking a bunch of them and letting them rot. Next year I will ignore her and do as I please with the tomatoes.

[LMNO]

Ok, to be honest, I really like Green Mountain brand.

I just wanted to be a prick.

[East Coast Hustle]

Green Mountain Gringo salsa is awesome, especially the roasted garlic salsa.

I went out of my way to carry their salsas and tortilla strips when I had the pizzeria/store.

[LMNO]

Yup, that's the one.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I like Green Mountain. I'll eat Tostitos.  I prefer to make my own because I like very chunky roasted veggie salsa and that is really expensive to buy.

[Jenne]

Making salsa is like making nectar of the gods in this family.  And we can put back about a gallon of the fresh stuff in no time flat.  My husband's mom makes an Afghan variant I'm not too fond of but some may like nonetheless.  She doesn't add lime but instead uses a fuckton of peppers and onion, with very little tomato.  I told her I like balance, and so I like the cilantro and tomato notes to come out rather than the dominance of onion and pepper.  I also like a lot of lime juice and the juice from a can of pickled jalapenos in it as well (not the jalapenos themselves unless they're fresh,  just the juice from the can).

[East Coast Hustle]

I've got a couple different kinds of vinegar that work great depending on the flavors you're working with.

For example, coconut vinegar goes awesome with fruit-based salsas such as peach or mango.

cane vinegar seems to complement corn salsa really well as well as any salsas using alot of roasted peppers.

[Kai]

damn this thread makes me so hungry for fresh salsa

[Triple Zero]

The jar kind is handy to keep around because it's basically pickled, and keeps forever.

You can also jar your own, which is a nice thing to do with extra garden tomatoes. I didn't get to do it this year because my housemate kept insisting she wanted to do things with the tomatoes, then picking a bunch of them and letting them rot. Next year I will ignore her and do as I please with the tomatoes.

ooh could you post recipe/instructions for this? please?

[Triple Zero]

(reading on..)

RECIPES

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