Quick and fresh homemade salsa

Mid summer harvest

Saturday, July 23, 2022

Here is our homemade and very quick salsa recipe using everything from the garden.  It is a little on the spicy side, so you may want to cut back on the hot peppers if you like a milder taste. 

Homemade homegrown salsa recipe:
 Quart of thawed frozen homegrown tomatoes 
1 cayenne-frozen, thawed or fresh off the vine
1 jalapeno-frozen, thawed or fresh off the vine
1 bell pepper-frozen, thawed or fresh off the vine
1 fresh onion, 
a couple of cloves of garlic-fresh or pickled
a healthy handful of cilantro or tarragon
Throw them all into the food processor and viola!  Fresh, spicy salsa.

All the extra tomatoes that come off the vine, I will slice up and freeze so I can use the rest of the year.  Any frozen from the previous year goes into sauce in the fall.  I wait until it is cooler before I can!  Preserving the tomato harvest

I do the same with sweet and hot peppers, freeze the extras that we can't eat fresh.  I freeze the small ones whole and slice up the larger sweet peppers.  They retain their flavor for a couple of years without blanching.  Preserving peppers

As the cilantro goes to seed, I use tarragon as a substitute.  It adds a slightly different taste, but is still quite good.

For garlic, I pickle my harvest so it lasts for years in the refrigerator.  Have garlic any time you need it, just pickle some!

I haven't had the best of luck with large bulbing onions in the garden, but the Egyptian walking onions do great in the garden or in a pot!  For this salsa recipe, I pull one onion and use both the bulb and the stalk.  Egyptian walking onions