Tiptoe Through Tomatoes

Come on, sing along. Huh? You don't know that song?  Oh, you heard it with tulips, not tomatoes?  Well, I don't have any tulips, but I DO have tomatoes.  Let's sing!

Well, okay.  We can sing later.

Then let me tell you about this Salsa.  First, I have to say that I'm not really that much of a tomato eater.  I remember eating really tasty tomatoes from my grandmother's garden when I was young.  I still wasn't keen on them, but if you haaad to eat a tomato, those were the ones.  They tasted like...tomato.  I think the reason I don't like tomatoes that well is because most of the ones I have had in my life were picked shortly after the blossom fell off the plant, looong before the tomato was ripe.  My grandmother's would practically fall off the vine into the basket.  They had a deep intense red color to them, unlike the pinkish greenish tint of grocery store varieties today.

Okay, so enough complaining.  After all, the tomatoes that I used for this salsa were picked on Monday and are beautifully ripe.  The onion, Cilantro, and peppers were also fresh from the garden.  The onion and peppers were picked on Monday.  The Cilantro was cut about an hour ago.

I didn't have any Serrano or Jalapeño peppers, so I used the (I think they're Banana) peppers that I picked at our CSA this week, plus a few that were given to me by our contractor who keeps a big garden every year.  They give a nice 'kick' to the flavor.

The recipe is easy and the flavor is dynamite...and that's coming from a reluctant tomato eater.