May 2010

A Great Way To Eat Your Veggies!

To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, and to kick off the season for awesome produce, I decided to whip up a batch of salsa fresca.  A bowl of this and a bag of tortilla chips and I'm set for dinner!  If you want something more filling and protein-packed, you can use a can of vegetarian refried beans - either as an additional dip, or to top your chips and bake up a batch of nachos.

You can find a lot of salsa recipes online if you go looking.  But the truth is that salsa is one of those things, like salads, that's more of a procedure than a recipe.  All you need is a mental map of the different elements, and then you can customize it, mix and match ingredients, and skew it towards whatever looks good on the produce aisle today.


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