you gotta have skills



like salsa making skills

yesterday after giving my sister a hard time about never coming out to kickball, she finally made it out. too bad nobody else did. we didn't know what to do with ourselves since everyone flaked or was TOO HUNGOVER to play, so i turned to her and asked "wanna make salsa?". she gave me a funny look and said "sure. i guess. i'll just watch you do it" so we walked over to the co-op, got all the ingredients, came home and went to town. my sister has a tendency to overexagerate about the greatness of things, but she insists it was "the best salsa" she's ever had.

ingredients:
4 garlic cloves
4-5 tomatoes
3 tomatillos
4 hot peppers of your favorite variety
1 small onion
1 lime
cilantro
some salt (optional)

leaving the shell on the garlic cloves, put them in a skillet (NO OIL!!!) turned on high along with the tomatoes, tomatillos and peppers and blacken all the ingredients (give them a turn now and then so they are almost entirely black). once everything is nice and burnt looking, let it all cool off.

squeeze the juice from one lime into a blender or food-processor and throw in the peppers, garlic (now shelled), and pulse-blend until finely chopped.

throw in the tomatillos and tomatoes and continue to pulse-blend until close to desired constancy then throw in some cilantro (i use about half the amount that comes in a bunch at the grocery store) and blend to final consistency.

chop up the onion and throw it in.

get some chips.

eat it.


via tiny clanger (can't give you a link to her website..so i'll give you the link on her website i liked):
The Vice Guide To Everything

some good advice in there...i swear!