Yet again another Salsa recipe...

I was at a wedding the other night and the first dance was a spicy hot salsa. I can't dance a salsa, I actually don't know any dances and the newly wed couple were beautiful, graceful as well as radiant making me rethink my lack of dancing knowledge. So this recipe is for them... Kinda, they are doing the honeymoon thing faraway.

This is a nice basic rule as suggested by Diane Kennedy the Mexican cuisine equivalent to Marcella Hazan. This is loosely based on a 3-2-1 concept. 3 parts tomatoes, 2 onion, 1 cilantro- salt, pepper, lime juice, and jalapeno (to the hotness you want, I like it hot).

Top photo by my husband (he was so impressed with the dance that I may just be able to drag him to a dance class or two)

photos by me.

What we had for Lunch

Soba Noodles, Veg and Sauce. I can pretty much make it in one pot (Kudos to Mark Bittman for the idea) and the babies love it. I can not make enough of it. 


When water comes to a boil in a large pot add frozen veg (such as peas), return to boil, add noodles, set timer for 6 mins. Make a  salty, sweet, sour dressing in a squirt bottle (soy sauce, mirin, lime juice).  With two minutes left add fresh veg (in this case carrot) finish cooking. Strain, (haven't found much of a need to rinse as there is less starch), plate. Add greens (pea shoots- Billie loves sprouts), drizzled with a bit of peanut oil and let babies squirt the dressing. 


The nice thing about this formula is the fact that I can mix it up and it is still a hit. If I wanted softer carrots I would have added them in earlier, had I thawed my peas I would have added them in later etc and so on. Hot, cold it doesn't matter babies love it. Elijah abandons all decorum and slurps his noodles.