It’s the rare occasion that I make something from Family Circle magazine, but the July issue featured a couple of recipes that I made within 24 hours of first spotting them. We enjoyed both recipes on Father’s Day—a wonderful blueberry shortcake and this excellent strawberry salsa.
If you’ve never tried a fruit salsa, you are missing out! I highly recommend you go out and buy a pound of strawberries and make this delicious salsa. It would work as a side dish with fish, chicken, or pork; but I made it as an appetizer for Father’s Day. It disappeared very quickly. I could hear my mother saying, “If there are no leftovers, you didn’t make enough.”
True for sure—next time I’m doubling the recipe!
One year ago: Tomatillo Salsa
Strawberry Salsa
Ingredients
- 1 lb. strawberries, hulled and diced
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced green onions
- 1 jalapeño, seeded and diced
- 1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
- 2 tbl. fresh lime juice
- 1 tbl. agave syrup or honey (I used agave)
- 1/8 tsp. salt
Directions
Gently mix ingredients together in a bowl. Serve with tortilla chips or over fish or chicken.
Source: A recipe from the July 2012 issue of Family Circle magazine
I know it’s redundant, but I am an Italian foodie. My two sisters and I grew up in a thoroughly Italian household with a Sicilian mom and a Neopolitan dad—both equally good cooks. My dad and uncle owned a small Italian restaurant together, and it was the place to go for great home style Italian food, including wonderful homemade pizza. My dad has passed on; but, to this day, even if my 80-plus-year-old mom doesn’t know you’re coming, she’ll pull a 5-course meal out of the fridge in no time flat.
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