My favorite nearby farmer’s market is presently having a “you pick em” Roma tomatoes sale…$.65/lb!!! What! I couldn’t believe it! I spent a few minutes picking through their plants, grabbing the ones that were about to fall off and perfectly ripe! It was quite therapeutic to be out there in the field, by myself, hanging out with the tomato plants, longing for those “simpler” times of the olden days!
With my 12 lbs of tomatoes ($7.80!), I made spaghetti sauce that made enough for 6 meals. I also made 2 batches of salsa. (They gave me 6 hot peppers free!) I plan to get more tomatoes next weekend and will share my homemade spaghetti sauce with you all!
Homemade Salsa
Servings: 4 persons
Ingredients
- 6-8 tomatoes (enough to 3/4 fill the food processor)
- 1 green pepper
- 1 onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 4 hot peppers
- splash of vinegar
Instructions
- Put it all into the blender/food processor and go! Make it as chunky or pureed as you like!
Jennifer says
Wow – and I thought I got a good deal at $1/pound last week. In which I bought 8 pounds. I used 3 lb. for tomato soup, and have used a few more for other things, and now trying to figure out how to use up the rest of them! My absolute favorite salsa recipe actually calls for canned tomatoes, but I think I’m going to be experimenting it with fresh ones now!
How fun to go get to pick your own though – I had to pick mine out of the basket at the grocery store – not nearly as much fun!
Sherry says
Yum! WE love fresh salsa!
Jill says
Sounds delicious, I could use some right now!
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