My family loves the Hispanic Culture. From the people, to the feista’s to the food. My community has a large Hispanic Population, so with that comes several Mexican Restuarants in town. And we normally eat at our favorite mexican resturant or cook Mexican food at home twice a week.
My kiddo’s think that every Wednesday before youth group, we should stop and let them pick up Mexican food. Most Wednesdays we do, but tonight our youth group is going to another campus so we have to leave early, so I decided to cook at home before we left.
First, I started with the salsa-I really love making this and it’s not a Mexican Dinner without salsa! A friend from years ago taught me and after tweaking for my family a little I finally found the perfect recipe!
My salsa recipe will make a quart size mason jar.
Here is what it consists of:
1 Lg can of crushed tomatoes
2-3 jalapeños (add an extra for more heat)
1 bunch of green onions
2 heaping tables of minced garlic
1- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
A few leafs of cilantro
In blender, mix jalapeño with a couple tablespoons of water and purée. Best if peppers are sliced down middle. I leave seeds for extra heat.
Next add tomatoes, minced garlic and salt and nd and a few leaves of cilanteo blend a couple of times.
Then take 3-4 green onions tops and dice them down to the white onion part. if you do not like chunks in salsa then blend them up with the rest of the mixture. If you do like chunks, don’t blend the onions but just stir them in salsa.
Pour in jar and leave overnight so the flavors will mix together yum!
Now that i’ve made you extremely hungry for Mexican food, I wanted to share with you about Link Parties. After a lot of time and research on how to find amazing blogs to follow, and raise my stats in the process, I came across Link Parties @ http://www.beautythroughimperfection.com/link-parties/
You may be asking yourself “What is a Link Party”? Link Party participating is a great way to gain some traction and grow your blog. You get your posts in front of hundreds of other bloggers this way, and can connect with some new ones via comments! It’s fun, but can get tiring too. It can be tedious, but definitely worth it! You more or less share a blog post onto another blog.
I wanted to share with you three amazing blogs that I linked up with today:
http://www.notjustahousewife.net/2014/05/show-me-what-ya-got-166.html
http://www.adornedfromabove.com/
Hope you will drop by their blogs and link up as well! Happy Blogging!
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Exactly!! You can’t eat Mexican food without some homemade SALSA! :D ….Great recipe btw!
Hi, Thanks for stopping by! The amazing think about the blog I shared about the Link Parties, http://www.beautythroughimperfection.com/link-parties/ is that she actually has compiled a link of blogs that participate in link parties by the Days of the Week! How awesome is that! My goal is try and link to 3 parties every day for the first few weeks. I know that might be hard but i am challenging myself to do it lol. Then I plan to starting linking every other day. It’s really just however much traffic you are looking at getting on your blog. And this way you are finding Amazing blogs in the process!
My family is involved in Mission work in Guatemala. We travel every year to work with an organization called “James 127 Project”. I feel the Hispanic Culture in my blood! You should really try some of the amazing dishes the restaurants have to offer. If you need some good suggestions, just let me know!
So how often do you have link parties? I live in an area where there are a lot of Mexican and restaurants from other south of the border countries. I know I need to try more, but when I go the restaurant, I don’t know what to order (sort of like my experience at authentic Chinese restaurants).
*Mexican restaurants.