Posts Tagged With: stocking stuffer

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INGREDIENTS

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1 jalapeno chile or serrano chile

6 ounces cherry tomatoes

6 ounces golden berries

½ red onion

½ cup fresh cilantro

1½ tablespoons lime juice

¼ ounce pepper

½ ounce salt

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Serves 4. Takes 30 minutes.

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PREPARATION

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Remove seeds from chile if you desire a milder salsa. Dice cherry tomatoes, cilantro, golden berries, jalapeno, and red onion. Add all ingredients to mixing bowl. Stir with fork until well blended. It should last for about 5 days if stored in the refrigerator in an airtight container. Golden berry pico de gallo goes well with tortillas chips or as a side to any Mexican dish.

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TIDBITS

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1) This recipe asks you to use a half a red onion.

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2) Sure, you could buy an entire red onion and use half of it. But can you do with the unused half?

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3) You need an entire red onion to participate in red-onion bowling leagues. So that’s out.

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4) People really don’t appreciate red-onion halves as a stocking stuffer.

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5) I suppose if you have twelve red-onion halves and your opponent has twelve white-onion halves, you could play onion checkers. But as of press time, America displays a rather striking lack of interest in such a pastime.

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6) And you know in your heart of hearts, some neighbor, perhaps just a block away, needs a red-onion half. Perhaps she needs it to make her own Golden Berry Pico de Gallo. Whatever, she needs it and would dearly love to obtain your red onion half.

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7) Wahoo! The answer’s obvious. Organize a market for such a thing. Set it up for Every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 11 am. Bring your half vegetables and swap for the half vegetables you do need. You save money. You cut on waste. And don’t have to waste time and gas needed to go to the store for just a half a head of lettuce. You’ll make America safer from a possible oil embargo.

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8) And you’ll meet new people. Perhaps a romance will bloom. How cool is that?

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– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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