Tagged: garlic

Salsa Verde

Spicy Salsa Verde

Salsa Verde is to Mexican cuisine what tomato sauce is to Italian food.  Salsa verde is similar to red salsa, except that instead of using red tomatoes, it uses the small green tomatillo. Its most popular use is as a chip dip, but also used as a sauce on meats and poultry.  This salsa verde recipe, found at whatscookingamerica.net, makes great use of the tomatillos, cilantro, and hot peppers in late summer shares.  Feel free to reduce the hot peppers and increase the tomatillos if you don’t want it too spicy. Makes approximately 2 cups. (more…)

Tomato Garlic Salad Dressing

Tomato Garlic Salad Dressing

Now that we have tomatoes to spare, why not try an easy salad dressing with some of the tomatoes that are “riper” than others. As we start to ease back into salad greens, it’s a good time to broaden our salad dressing repertoire, too. (more…)

Chimichurri

Chimichurri

Chimichurri is an Argentinian sauce simi- lar to pesto. It is usually used as a mari- nade for grilled steak, but can also be used just as a spread over some crusty bread.The variations are endless with this recipe. (more…)