Garden Salsa

One of the things I was most excited about when we bought our first house was the fact that I could grow my very own garden! The backyard needs a lot of work and doesn't have a good place for a garden just yet so i dug up a small area along the back of my house to plant some tomatoes and peppers to get me by until next year when i will have completed my garden box. I planted 4 tomato plants and 3 pepper plants. I ran out of room for the third pepper so I had to plant it in a pot. Come to find out as time went on, our dirt is so crappy that only weeds are capable of living in it. All of my plants died except for the one little pepper in a pot. So here it is..... my pride and joy... a little stunted in growth....

Since I only had these three little peppers I decided that they were perfect for making garden salsa (the rest of the ingredients stolen from my mothers always successful garden)

My husband the vegetable model

I decided to keep it simple and follow the recipe that came with my magic bullet.

1 full tomato
1/4 full sized onion
1 clove of garlic (didn't have so i used garlic powder)
a few sprigs of cilantro
1/4-1/3 Jalepeno Pepper (used an anaheim chili instead since that's what my mom grew this year)
salt and pepper to taste
1/4 green pepper (not in recipe but i added anyway since i grew my very own peppers!)

Give it several quick pulses. Salsa should be chunky.

Voila!! Atempts 1, 2 and 3. Moral of the story... magic bullets turn salsa into soup very easily.