Curious 52, Week 18: Cinco de Mayo

When Maggie informed me that my blog post for Curious 52 this week would cover a salsa lesson, I wept like a child. She calmly explained that she meant salsa the food, and that in any event Thai had already covered salsa the dance in week 3.

 Easy Homemade Salsa with Watch Learn Eat

Serendipitously, a friend of mine then invited me to his house for a fajita dinner. I shopped using the attached ingredient list, but I didn’t manage to actually take the lesson before I got to his house (let alone make the salsa). Fortunately, Easy Homemade Salsa taught me how in about three minutes. There were some nice touches I hadn’t used before, like red bell pepper and olive oil. And the close-up video of each of the steps was helpful, especially watching how an expert de-seeds a jalapeno pepper:

I was in an unfamiliar kitchen and making salsa for 6+ (while reluctantly sharing a knife and cutting board), so i’d say the whole process took me about 30 minutes (including taking the lesson!).  Here is my project with some of the delectable result:

So aside from how to make salsa, what did i learn from this?

• Like Maggie, I am quite the procrastinator (I actually knew this already).
• Watch Learn Eat can teach salsa fast.
• Chopping tomatoes is slow. I really want one of these vegetable choppers:

 

Follow Curious on Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter.