Homemade Salsa

I had so many tomatoes recently coming out of my garden, that I knew I wanted to make some fresh salsa from them soon. This weekend I set out to do just that! The weather was perfect - it almost felt like fall, with the nice chill in the air! I love the taste of fresh homemade salsa, nothing compares to it in my opinion.

This salsa is truly a "little bit of this and a little bit of that" kind of recipe. I think that is why I like it so much! You really can't make a mistake...and even if you think you have, 99% of the time you can add other ingredients to fix it! I love fresh cilantro in my salsa, really I like it just fresh out of my garden on so many dishes, but it adds so much flavor to salsa. You certainly could scale down my recipe if you don't like as much garlic flavor or cilantro. Just add what you think you would like and then taste it, if it isn't enough add more! Easy as that! Hope you enjoy :o)

Homemade Salsa

(recipe by Liesl)

10-12 fresh garden tomatoes (3-5 of those, with the seeds removed, set aside)

1 jalapeno, seeded

4 garlic cloves

1/2 cup fresh chopped cilantro

1/2 red onion

juice of one lime

good pinch of salt

In a food processor, combine and finely pulse, jalapeno, garlic, and onion. Empty contents into a large bowl. Cut about 7 to 9 of the tomatoes into large chunks. Add to food processor and pulse several times. Empty tomato mixture into bowl with the other ingredients. Cut the remaining tomatoes (the ones without the seeds) into good bite size chunks and add to bowl. (I like to have some larger chunks of tomatoes in my salsa so this is why I do that.) Stir to combine all ingredients. Add the juice of one lime, salt and cilantro. Stir to combine. Serve with tortilla chips.