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learnteach ([personal profile] learnteach) wrote2006-06-15 05:04 pm

Salsa Notes

Speed salsa: total time, 20 minutes.

Bad ergonomics. Put it all on one surface so no dancing.
baggo tomatos (4 lb roma)
2 peppers (green yellow bells)
3 jalapenos
head young garlic
snip cilantro
1/2 large sweet onion (walla walla. Woo)
salt and pepper

seed and stem jalapenos, mince, add garlic and keep mincing. Seed and stem peppers, chop. Mince cilantro. (As you do each ingredient, throw in mixing bowl.) Stem and seed tomatoes, puree roughly. chop 1/2 onion. Add salt and pepper. Mix.

Cut thumb on knife, oops, pepperjuice! Trying a different mix of ingredients, more fire less pepper, less cilantro. We'll see. I think I can get this below 10 minutes if I can be speedier with tomatoes, and group the gear more logically around the sink.

EDIT: Too sweet, sweet onion and sweet garlic too much. Not enough bite, little bit of afterfire. Go to 4 jalas, 4 peppers, regular garlic, two snips cilantro. Think I'll try again tonight.

EDIT2: Half the tomatos, twice the cilantro, half a lime, 3 jalas and a Habanero. Bite and burn. Added corn to the first one, it'll be a sweet salsa. The rest of the ingredients are cooking down to become pasta sauce, yum!

[identity profile] d-mon-chick.livejournal.com 2006-06-16 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Watch those knives, I got into the idea of speed salsa once...chopped the end of my thumb off and it took months to fill back in.

And, I finished my last batch of John's famous salsa today. Now what will I put on my mid morning cottage cheese snack?

More salsa!

[identity profile] learnteach.livejournal.com 2006-06-16 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
You want a hot batch? I'm planning to work on this until I get the speed part down. BTW. YOU ROCK! Thank you for the spiffo prezzie!

"USE IT OR LOSE IT".

I'll post a picture later.

[identity profile] ladybrid.livejournal.com 2006-06-16 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
remember vinegar helps cancel sweet, and encourage the other flavors. even a tiny tiny bit... oh never mind, lime is good too!

[identity profile] light-hands.livejournal.com 2006-06-16 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds Awesome! I would lose the cilantro in mine, but that's cause I'm one of those NO CILANTRO geeks.

No putting of body parts in the salsa allowed! Might get you disqualified.

[identity profile] catagon3.livejournal.com 2006-06-16 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
What?! There's someone else out there in the wide world besides me who doesn't do cilantro?! Cool.

Ok.

[identity profile] learnteach.livejournal.com 2006-06-19 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
I'll make you guys a cilantroless version sometime.