5 Minute Salsa, Inspired by My Garden-To-Be

So happy to have Spent this Mother’s Day with my guys, along with my sisters and their families, my parents, Scott’s parents and my grandparents. I wish my sister in law & co. did not have the stomach bug and the NJ/NY coalition lived a bit closer. Still, it was a total love fest here, not to mention a bit of crafts and cooking mayhem which I’ll be sharing all week.

Saturday afternoon, I came home to this very wonderful surprise (sort of…Ryan has been telling me about it for 2 weeks).

This is my garden-to-be, full of tomatoes, kale, onions, beets, corn and lots of herbs (soon to be relocated to the ground).  We’ve done well with our container gardening for the past few years and I’m graduating to raised beds.  Looking forward to a summer of gardening with Them and homegrown salads and sauces for all.

Until my salsa garden grows in, I think I’ve found the perfect waiting-for-ripe-tomatoes fix with this 5 minute salsa from Mountain Mama Cooks.

Photo by Mountain Mama Cooks

We don’t usually do Mexican with Grandma Pearl and Grandpa Seymour, but when I spotted the recipe – mason jar and all – I couldn’t resist adding it to Sunday night’s BBQ.  I almost had all the ingredients in the house. My sister tells me Ro-tel canned tomatoes & chilies are a stock item in most midwest pantries, but not in mine (until now). The can looked like it had enough green chilies to spice up my family, so I skipped the recommended jalapeño pepper. Honey? Cumin? In salsa? Is that the secret?

On your marks, get set, go.

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