So, I have a "salsa garden", thus I will make salsa! Well, all the websites with wonderful recipes have comments on them like, "I made a double recipe of this today and I'm going to make another tomorrow!" "They are such great and easy gifts for friends" etc. Well, I'm not sure who these people are but they are probably the same people who say things like, "oh, my hair just looks like this when I wake up!" and "My house is always this clean!"
This was my experience of making salsa....
Day one:
Lug 5 gallon bucket of Roma tomatoes inside.
Wash in large colander-fulls and get the water boiling for some peeling fun! (turn off water, go get crying Baby, nurse, feed snacks in high chair, start water again...)
Start putting tomatoes through peeling process, actually quite fun! (stop, get Baby out of high chair, put in walker, talk and sing repeatedly while peeling and chopping)
Tomatoes look disgusting once peeled!
Day 2
Realize that half a bucket-full isn't going to make even close to 7 quarts of peeled, chopped and de-seeded tomatoes-- go and pick everything that resembles red in garden.
(put baby to bed)
Start process again. Peel, cut, core, chop, wait for water to boil, chop onions, cry, chop garlic, (stop, get crying baby, nurse, put in high chair... etc) peel, cut, core and chop more tomatoes---realize that these are not getting even close to 7 quarts- divide the recipe by 4/7 (that's fun!)
(put baby to nap-- two hours have passed)
Chop jalapanos, burn fingers (even with gloves!) try to nap through burning fingers, get frustrated. Start throwing everything in chopping machine, get frustrated after 6 hours of salsa... husband comes home and takes baby then helps cook and can all....
4 quarts of salsa. Yes, seriously.
See what I mean?
