Summer = Salsa

Hot weather and spicy foods seem to go together. Our Market has just what you need to make all sorts of salsas. Try these links for recipes and inspiration!

Cooking with Salsa

Nutritionist Nancy Gerlach's article at fiery-foods.com includes some interesting recipes, including a noodle salad with Asian cucumber relish and a watermelon salsa with Walla Walla sweet onions to accompany grilled halibut.

611 Salsa Recipes: Clay's Kitchen

After searching the web we came back to this site — it has recipes from all over the US and no annoying ads. Just browsing the huge variety of salsa titles gave us lots of inspiration. To save you some time, here are a few recipes with fresh ingredients (except for citrus fruits) that can be found at our Market:

• Apricot Salsa: A cooked salsa to accompany grilled fish. The recipe calls for apricots, roasted red sweet pepper, tomatoes, onions, jalpeño pepper and apple cider vinegar. Flambé the dark rum at the end. Drama!
• Blueberry Salsa: This recipe calls for blueberries, red onion, jalapeño pepper, pink grapefruit, honey, lime juice. Good with salmon.
• Cabbage Salsa: Combines cabbage, carrots, radishes, scallions, and serrano or jalapeño peppers with lime juice, vinegar, and olive oil and cilantro. (The recipe mentions carrots, but they don't appear in the list of ingredients.)
• Roasted Corn and Tomatillo Salsa: Roast an extra ear of corn, some tomatillos and sweet red peppe;, combine with jalapeño pepper, garlic, cilantro, olive oil, white wine vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper.

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Just How Hot Is that Pepper?

Chile Heat Scale

It‘s scientific! Find out how peppers rate on the Scoville Organoleptic Test, a rough guide to the intensity of chile peppers. This site has the most complete chart and an explanation of the rating process. Brave souls who volunteered their taste buds, we salute you!