Food Watch: Tomato Season

Food Watch/Food Found: I have been buying tomatoes for about a month now. Every time I am in town I pick up a basket or two. They are only $4.99 for this huge basket of them. My plan was to make tomato soup, salsa, tomato sauce, spaghetti sauce, ketchup, BBQ sauce, pizza sauce, and a couple of containers of just diced up tomatoes for later. I spent a little while every day making something. It didn't take too much time.

The one thing that I made a lot of was salsa. I use a lot of it. I put it on meats, in scrambled eggs, on sandwiches, hamburgers, and in cheese sauce. Since I do a lot with it, I made a lot and froze it. I made it so frequently that my daughter asked me if it was an automatic response to make salsa every time I get up.

My mom cooks her salsa, and I have seen a lot of other people do the same. Mine is not that difficult, and only has a few ingredients. My kind of recipe.

I used two big tomatoes, 2 jalapenos (insides taken out), half an onion, salt and pepper to taste. I put them all into the food processor and pulse until it is the desired consistency.

You can make this any way you want. I like recipes that you can adjust the ingredients to your own taste.

The tomatoes can be de-skinned and de-seeded, if you wish. I don't take the seeds or skin off.

You can take out the seeds and membrane of the jalapenos depending on how you want your salsa. The more seeds and membrane you keep in, the hotter it will be.

You can also change out the onion to be yellow, white, red, or even green onion. It's all up to your own individual taste. You can also added calantro, but I'm not a fan of it.

Because those are the only ingredients I put into my salsa, it makes it good for a lot of recipes.

Salsa
2 Tomatoes
2 Jalapeno (take out seeds and membrane)
1/2 onion
salt and pepper

Puree in food processor.