You may remember
this post from a few weeks ago about how I love love love salsa, especially homemade salsa - it just seems to taste better than the store-bought brands. I love the taste of fresh tomatoes from the garden. I love the feeling I get when I open a jar of homemade salsa in the middle of winter, it brings me back to the summer months. I was lucky that my good friend Jenn decided to come over and help me out because, let's face it - trying to get anything done while tending to a toddler and a newborn can sometimes be task in itself. I have had a few people ask me what recipe we used to make our homemade salsa. I would like to say that we followed one, but that was not the case. We kind of threw in a little of this and a little of that and hoped for the best. I was pretty happy with the end result, but it was a little on the sweet side. Next year, I think I will add a little more spice. What is your favourite salsa recipe?
I tried to remember exactly what we did but my life is kind of a blur lately. It went something like this...
Ingredients:
- 60 Roma tomatoes, peeled
- 2 large red peppers
- 2 large green peppers
- 5 large onions
- 3 heads of garlic
- 2 large cans of tomato paste
- 5 Jalapeno peppers
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 cups vinegar
- 8 teaspoons of sea salt
Directions:
- Blend - or if you like your salsa chunky, chop - tomatoes, peppers, garlic, jalapenos, and onions.
- Place in large pot. Add sugar, vinegar, tomato paste, and salt.
- Simmer for 2 hours, stirring often.
- Jar and process... then enjoy!
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| Jenn working hard. |
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| The finished product. |
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| Little Miss L. couldn't wait to get her hands on a jar of salsa. |
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| Mommy, can we please eat it now?!?! |
