SALSA JUSTICE

Have you heard of this stuff? It's called salsa and it's CRAZY good! It's refreshing but fiery hot at the same time. I'd never tried it before, but we at FOOD JUSTICE HOUSE thought we should make some...

FUN FACT: Salsa means SAUCE in Spanish.

In the FOOD JUSTICE GARDEN we grow peppers. Most of our crops died this summer, but the peppers survived the summer. This is a pepper:

Peppers are SPICY! We grow two types of peppers, jalapenos and habeneros. Jalapenos are spicy, but habeneros are SUPER SPICY.

FUN FACT: The habenero pepper is 10 to 30 times hotter than the jalapeno pepper.

Not that kind of Pepper!

We've been harvesting jalapenos for awhile, and we've just started to pick habeneros.  We thought it would be fun to make some of this super spicy salsa stuff.  We made our own recipe because we're smart and cool!  It's pretty spicy, be warned!  But it's super refreshing and has a delightful lime aftertaste.  Here it is:

SALSA FRESCA (this means FRESH SAUCE: this means no cooking, all the ingredients are just FRESH)

3 tomatoes, quartered

1/2 habenero

1/2 onion, cut in half

a handfull of cilantro

1 lime, juiced

1 clove garlic

salt to taste

Blend everything but salt in the food processor of your choice.  Be very careful when cutting the habenero...wash your hands after...don't touch anything after touching it...if you touch your eyes you could go blind or die...yikes!  Blend it to the consistency you prefer.  Salt to taste.  Serve chilled.  Yummmmmmm...

It should look like this:

Haha, jk, that would be strange!

It looks more like this:

Did not take this picture!

SALSA is cool and a great way to do justice to peppers.  MAKE BANKS PAY...for SALSA!