London Broil
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Black Beans over Cilantro Rice
I’m not sure if you have a Shop Rite near you – but I love their Can-Can Sale. One of the things I just stocked up on was Black Beans, since they were on sale for 48 cents a can! In my effort to eat …
SALSA – canned tomato version
When people ask you what your favorite food is, what answer do you give them? For me I have to always say that it is a tie between Chips & Salsa and Dark Chocolate (I know, its a strange “combination” – but as long as I eat them separately, who is to judge)!
The more I have started to make my own salsa, the less I care for the stuff that you get out of a jar from the store. I love making garden fresh salsa and salsa verde and chunky pico de gallo – but this salsa right here made from canned tomatoes and some fresh ingredients is seriously some of the best salsa that I have tasted AND its easy to make year-round AND its cheap AND in case you didn’t hear me the first time it’s delicious!!!
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[Canned Tomato] Salsa
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Serves: 2 quarts
[Canned Tomato] Salsa
Ingredients
- 1 can (28 Ounce) Whole Tomatoes With Juice (or diced)
- 2 cans (10 Ounce) Ro*tel Tomatoes (Mexican flavored Tomatoes – pick your flavor)
- 1/4 cup Chopped Onion (1 small onion works)
- 1 – 3 cloves Garlic, Minced (depends on your preference)
- 1 whole Jalapeno, Quartered And Sliced Thin
- 1/4 teaspoon Sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Ground Cumin
- 1/2 cup Cilantro (more to taste!)
- 1/2 whole Lime juice (about 1 Tablespoon)
Instructions
- Note: this is a very large batch. Even in my food processor it leaks out a little bit, so I usually make this as a two step process & then mix it together in a large bowl.
- Combine onion, jalapeno, garlic, sugar, salt, cumin, & lime juice in a blender or food processor. Mix until a medium/fine chunk. Add the whole/chunk tomatoes and Ro*tel tomatoes as well as the cilantro. Pulse until you get the salsa to the consistency you’d like—I do about 10 to 15 pulses. Test seasonings with a tortilla chip and adjust as needed.
- Refrigerate salsa for at least an hour. Serve with tortilla chips or melted cheese nachos or for a healthy alternative (and one of my favorite super-healthy snacks) with some celery.
adapted from The Pioneer Woman
And I leave you with this, Today’s Question of the Day… how do you like your salsa?
featured as a Top 10 of 2011….
My Chocolate Cake Cheesecake was featured on a very tasty “Year-End Wrap-Up” over at Cupcake Apothecary where there are (as always) tons of goodies to tempt your eyes and tastebuds!
Chocolate Covered Oranges
Was one of your News Years Resolutions to “Make Healthier Eating Choices”? BUT – do you love Chocolate too much to give it up in the effort to eat healthier? Well… you are in luck, I have the perfect solution for you! These Chocolate Covered …
525600 minutes
– from RENT
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear.
Five hundred twenty-five thousands six hundred minutes,
How do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife.
In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure a year in the life?
How about love?
How about love?
How about love? Measure in love
Seasons of love. Seasons of love.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes!
Five hundred twenty-five thousand journeys to plan.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?
In truths that she learned, or in times that he cried.
In bridges he burned or the way that she died.
It’s time now to sing out, tho’ the story never ends
Let’s celebrate – Remember a year in the life of friends
Remember the love!
Remember the love!
Seasons of love!
(RENT)
My 525,600 minutes of 2011
- Teacher by Day – Chef by Night had its first photo published to FoodGawker & has gotten a total of 21 photos published there
- I have had over 50,000 hits on my blog in its lifetime and averages about 150 views a day
- Teacher-Chef got a page on Facebook
- We totaled a car on the PA Turnpike, with a cake that survived the accident with the deer
- Rich moved in, we’re not engaged, but one day
- I got tenured at school
- Our school is a Leader in Me school & I love my staff
- I burnt popcorn in the school’ microwave, setting of the smoke detectors and causing the whole school to be evacuated
- I started (and ended) a Game Design Program (some things are not as good as they seem)
- I attended two wonderful couple’s weddings
- Went to NYC for my 28th Birthday and rode the Toys R Us Ferris Wheel to celebrate (and went to the Harry Potter exhibit and had great pizza with fun people)
- My “little sister” turned 16
- I only worked 2 jobs this year, for the first time in about 8 years!
- My dad retired (as did both of Rich’s parents)
- Rich started his MBA program at Lehigh
- I gained weight (thanks blog)
- My dad got a new baby (puppy – to hold him over until grandchildren)
- I took my grandmother to see Wonderland (which was only on Broadway for about a month)
- Two new babies will be born to 2 of my favorite couples in 2012
- I went to see Adam Pascall & Anthony Rapp (original leads from RENT) at Steel Stacks
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