In class cooking: Salsa-licious

The thing about salsa... Fresh salsa recipes are easily modified.  There are no rules as to how much of a certain ingredient you need to put in, but there are guidelines.  Start with the recipe below, and before you begin ask your group the following questions: how spicy do you want your salsa to be? how much garlic do you want to put in?   do you want big chunks in your salsa or small pieces? Cilantro: smell it.  Do you think you will want a large or small amount of this herb? Remember: It is easy to add MORE to a recipe, but very very difficult to remove a certain ingredient.  Start small and add more to taste.

Fresh salsa recipe:

3 large tomatoes
½ chopped onion
1or 2 garlic cloves, minced
¼ c finely chopped cilantro
1 tbsp lime juice
½  jalapeno pepper, finely chopped
salt to taste

1.  chop tomatoes, place in bowl.
2.  After discussing questions above, measure and chop other ingredients.  
3.  Mix all ingredients together

Home-made Pita Chips:
2 whole pitas
1 tsp olive oil
tyme
garlic salt

1.  put the olive oil in a small bowl.
2.  Use your brush to lightly kiss the pita with olive oil, on one side
3.  lightly sprinkle the thyme and garlic salt on the pita
4.  cut the pita into wedges
5.  spread the wedges on a cookie sheet
6.  bake in the oven for approximately 8-10 minutes