Staycation, Day 1: Homemade Salsa
Sunday, August 30th, 2009 | 6 Comments »
FLAME BROILED tomatoes and onions
There’s a tomato blight occurring throughout the northeast which has made a noticeable dent in the variety and abundance of tomatoes available at the farmers’ market and in our CSA share. In spite of the blight, there are still a lot of tomatoes to be had, what with it being hard to keep a good tomato down in late August. So we picked up a bunch of your garden variety red tomatoes (plus some fancy heirlooms too good for salsa) at the market on Saturday and made Mattbot’s Famous Salsa, a tried and true recipe that involves Googling “best salsa recipe” for 15 minutes before arbitrarily picking one.
This particular recipe employed Burger King’s patented flame broiling method. I stuck all the veggies above plus a jalepeno and anaheim pepper, plus two huge cloves of garlic—under the broiler for about 10 minutes. When they had cooled a bit, I squeezed some of the water from the tomatoes and tossed all of the roasted veggies into the food processor with a big handful of chopped cilantro and a 3:1 ratio of cumin to salt (to taste, natch). I hit pulse a few times and… picante! I paired the chips and salsa with a Lagunitas IPA, which lately has been my go-to beer.
. And don’t skimp on the chicken, get one of those pampered free range birds that only urban liberal elites eat, it’s worth it.
