I made my own fresh tomato salsa yesterday. Just ripe tomato, lime, onion, cilantro and…was there anything else? In fact I made a whole Canadian-Mexican feed for 12 (even though there were only five of us) in about 45 minutes. This is nutty and may have to be explored more. I don’t know if it was a life filled with Dora and Diego or the Taco Bell ads but one kid insisted we had to have tacos this weekend and I obliged. When they want BBQ, the marinade gets started the night before.
I suppose now I have to spend the winter going through Rick Bayless’s books…or maybe just getting it for free off the interweb.
Update: and they are good for breakfast, too. Reminds me a lot of eating Lebanese food in the 80s care of my pal’s mom teaching us all the way of kibbe, mishi, falafel, babaganoush and tabouli. Heck, I used to make my own Syrian flatbreads. Life before kids. Nothing like a big table spread and time to chow down. We Scots? Innards. Nothing but mammal guts. Quite different thing all together.
While we are at it – fresh figs. Bought a flat from the ever excellent Produce Town, Joe’s Figs of California for $6.99. Joe, sadly, has no website. Figs go with coffee. What other fruit does that? Yet figs are not fruit. You know that, right? In fact, figs and beer are closely related.