Salsa

Tack salsa up on the list of absurdly easy AYearFromScratch recipes. This can also hardly be called a recipe. It's more a collection of things you like.

Start with some of your favorite fresh ingredients. White onion, tomato, red and yellow peppers, cilantro, salt and pepper for seasoning, lime to keep things from browning and whatever hot peppers you like and your guests can handle.

Most of what goes into a salsa is the dicing. So, here are a few tips.

Cut into the skin of the tomato, and cut around the center. You'll get a fillet of tomato.

Go over it once more to cut out all the seeds and juice. Reserve that and the core for some other use (like tomato soup, or tomato paste).

Now cut the tomato to even sticks, between 1/8 and 1/4 inch thick depending on your preference. I like chunkier salsa when I make it at home.

Take a subset of those tomato sticks and cut them in the other direction, making even squares.

The process for the pepper is almost identical. For non-hot peppers, cut off the top and bottom, then split the pepper open and cut out the white core.

Look familiar? It should. Cut it into even sticks, and then into a dice.

As your going, throw the finished veg in a bowl. Keep on adding things until you think you have enough. Toss with salt and pepper, and then squeeze lime into the mixture to taste. 

Make sure you don't include the stems of the cilantro when you chop that. And, if you're cutting hot peppers either be very careful, or wear gloves. I'm dead serious here. Also, the capsaicin can linger on the cutting board, so when you go to clean up, don't stop being careful.

When all is said and done, it should look something like this.

This will be the freshest tasting salsa you've ever had. That is because it's the freshest salsa you've ever had.

Enjoy.