If you know anything about boxing, you would know that the current middle-weight champion belongs to a lanky looking fellow named Kelly Pavlik, who happens to be from my original hometown of Youngstown, Ohio. That being said, he had a rematch this past weekend against the one from whom he took the title from, Jermain Taylor. This rematch wasn’t for the belt, but just a big paycheck for both the fighters as it was a Pay Per View fight. Now of course, yours truly happens to be the hostess with the mostess, so I had a spread of food for my brother in law and father in law who came over to watch the fight with my hubby and myself. First off on the menu, a very tasty and basic salsa. This one is not a spicy salsa at all, in fact, it almost tastes a little sweet, though no sugar was added. If you like it hot, you can leave the seeds in the jalapeño if you wish, but since I served something else on the menu that was spicy, I left this salsa mild. Here it is:
Basic Salsa makes about 1 1/2 cups of salsa
- 1 can of fire-roasted tomatoes (if you don’t have this, don’t sweat it, just use regular)
- 1 jalapeño, seeds removed and roughly chopped
- 1 small yellow onion, roughly chopped
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 lemon
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro
- couple tablespoons of olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Combine tomatoes, jalapeño, onion, garlic and the juice from the lemon in a food processor. Pulse until smooth but still slightly chunky. Drizzle in a few tablespoons of olive oil (enough to get consistency right as salsa will be too thick without the oil), add chopped cilantro and salt and pepper to taste. Pulse once or twice again and serve.
