In article >, "A.C." > wrote:


> i love salsa! it's nice, fresh and not to heavy. i've taken to getting a
> decent jarred salsa and adding fresh minced garlic, chopped onion, jalapeno
> and cilantro with maybe a fresh lime squeezed in. it's not as good as fresh
> but will fool the average non foodie and it sparks up the taste quite
> nicely.


Reminds of an experience I had in college. My roommate and I didn't have
much money, and very little cooking experience. He bought an all-in-one
box to make spaghetti. It had the noodles, a can of sauce and a little
packet of cheese. He added all this other stuff to it to make it taste
better, just like his mom did. By the time he spent all that money and
time, he could have just made it from scratch and saved the cost of the
kit.

If you take what you have above, and substitute diced fresh tomatoes for
the jarred salsa, you'd have a wonderful made-from-scratch fresh salsa
with very little additional work. Or am I missing something?

--
Dan Abel
Sonoma State University
AIS