Award Winning Salsa Recipe

Salsa!

Just looking at this picture makes my mouth water! haha! This is not my award winning salsa, this is my mom's salsa! Its restaurant worthy people! Its so good, I'll even eat it with a spoon or drink it through a straw! You can blame that weird trait or quirk on my birth mom, who also would do the same! haha! Here is how to make it!

INGREDIENTS:this makes a huge bowl. For two people cut the measurements in half.

1. 4-6 fresh tomatoes, chopped.
2. 2 cans of whole peeled tomatoes.(28 oz)
3. 1 onion, finely chopped.
4. 1 bunch of cilantro.
5. 2 tablespoons of crushed garlic.
6. 1 tablespoon of salt.
7. 2 tablespoons of lime juice.(fresh lime tastes best)
8. 1 can of green chillies or jalapeños. (to taste)

DIRECTIONS:

     Pulse canned tomatoes about 2-3 seconds in a food processor, then put in a bowl. (longer, if you like smoother salsa) Pulse cilantro in food processor with some of the juice of the tomato juice, pulse until finely chopped. Add in the onion and garlic.(may need to chop up a little for the onion and garlic) Add the lime juice, salt, and chillies or jalapeños to the mix and stir.

This tastes better the second day after the ingredients mix and sit together.

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Something Sweet Saturday: Oat Meal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oat Meal, Chocolate Chip Cookies

       I am not a big sweets eater. Strange, I know, but I love Oat Meal Chocolate Chip Cookies. 

Plus, you can justify eating them for breakfast even more because they have oat meal in them!

I am sure most of you know how to make these, or that there is a similar recipe on the bottom 

of the lid of the oats container! Its for Oat Meal Raisin Cookies but all you have to do is switch

the raisins for chocolate chips. I took it a little further though. The ingredients call for "all-purpose 

flour. Well, I switched it out with wheat flour. Most of the time when you do that it does NOT taste

as good, am I right? haha! And! my husband is certainly not a fan of wheat things, but I'd thought I 

would try it. For the sake of trying to just to be good steward of the body we are given haha! Well,  my husband didn't even notice and he said that it was the best batch I ever made. SCORE! So here is the list of ingredients and directions.

   INGREDIENTS:

1. 1/2 cup(1 stick) of Butter, softened. *you can put it in the microwave for 5-10 secs or let sit out until it is soft.
2. 3/4 cup of firmly packed Brown Sugar.
3. 1/2 cup of Granulated Sugar.
4. 2 Eggs.
5. 1 teaspoon of Vanilla
6. 1 1/2 cups of All-purpose Flour, OR Wheat Flour.
7. 1 teaspoon of  Baking Soda.
8. 1 teaspoon of Cinnamon.
9. 1/2 teaspoon of salt (optional).
10. 3 cups of Quaker Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked.)
11. 1 cup of Chocolate Chips.

  DIRECTIONS:

1. Heat oven to 350F. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars on medium speed with a mixer until creamy.
2. Add eggs and vanilla, beat well.
3. Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt; mix well.
4. Add oats and chocolate chips; mix well.
5. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto a cookie sheet. * I use a ice cream scooper to get the size I want. It easier to scoop out and it wont blend back you spoons haha!
6. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. I let them sit on the cookie sheet to cool for a few minutes. *this makes around 4 dozen.

   NOTES: To keep the cookies soft longer, put a piece of bread in the container with your cookies. I  promise it helps haha! Also, if you don't have a mixer, this is really easy to mix by hand. It's what I do every time I make them. I do not have a mixer yet! haha! 

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