Christine's Salsa

I LOVE my salsa!  I am snobby now and won't eat jarred salsa.

I don't have a recipe but here is what I put in:

tomatoes

cilantro

green onions

serrano pepper

canned jalapeno peppers

lemon

salt, pepper, onion salt, garlic salt

tomato sauce if needed

I use 1/2 - 1 serrano pepper.  They are super spicy and I am usually making salsa for people that don't like spicy.

I use just 1-2 of the canned jalapenos.  Then I pour a little bit of the juice from the can in.

If I use about 3-4 large tomatoes I use one bunch of cilantro and green onions.

Sometimes I chop it and sometimes I blend it.  Depending on how lazy I feel.

I spice to taste.

Christine

Sue's Salsa

I don't have recipe for this, but here is what I do:

5-6 Roma Tomatoes
Red onion (1/2- whole depending on size and how much onion you like)
A head of clianto- pull off leaves
Cumin, Garlic Salt, and Lime to taste
1 jalapeno (depends on if you like spice or not)

Put it in the food processor and puree until you like the consistance

For a variation: you can add a can of fire roasted romatoes along with the roma tomatoes to make fire roasted salsa. Yummy! Just make sure to add in some extra spices and onion if you add the extra can of fire roasted tomatoes.


[from Sue]

Bacon Wrapped Jalepenos Stuffed with Cream Cheese

Bacon Wrapped Jalepenos Stuffed with Cream Cheese

INGREDIENTS:
•15 jalapenos (when cut in half, makes 30)

•2 pkgs cream cheese

•2 packages of bacon

•toothpicks

Cut jalapenos in half and clean out. If you like them hotter, then leave some seeds. Shove as much cream cheese as you can on that half and wrap with a slice of bacon. I try to cover the open end and the top really good there is less cream cheese leakage;) Stick a toothpick in from the top to bottom to hold bacon in place and prevent rolling up for falling off.



Cook in preheated oven at 350′ for about an hour or desired crispiness



*I pipe the cream cheese in from a plastic baggie (Sandwich size)



*****You need to be VERY CAREFUL! I wear gloves now. The first time I did this I knew not to touch my eyes while cleaning the seeds out but I didn't realize it just seeps in your skin. My hands were on FIRE for the next 24 hours. It started slow, just like a little burning. I kept washing my hands but but an hour or two later it still hurt. They were beginning to swell. I tried everything: soaking in vinegar, water, milk, sour cream, hydracortisone, ice packs, aloe. Ice packs were the only thing that helped for more than 10 min. I would have rather cut my hands off then deal with that. So just scraping the seeds out with my thumb did all that. Maybe I am allergic to something in them.

[from Molly]