Adventures in Salsa

This will be my last post. The semester is winding down and so is this blog. I hope that everyone has learned a little bit about salsa and heard about some cool things.

For one last bit of salsa news I'm going to share a story from my trip home. I was home for the long weekend this weekend. On Friday I was looking for a something to eat and thought I'd have some chips and salsa. In the fridge I found giant bottle of salsa turned upside down, a telltale sign that it's almost empty. I poured it into the bowl and got about a tablespoon of salsa out... gee, I'm so glad we saved that... My dad came into the kitchen and saw me rinsing out the jar. "You finally finished the salsa," he says, "we've been working on that for about two months now." I proceeded to correct him because I remember being home for spring break (about three weeks ago) and him opening that jar. So his two month exaggerating was a little off... He wasn't very willing to admit to this since without me in the house he's the only one who really eats salsa. That means he'd eaten the whole thing by himself in that short amount of time. I guess salsa loving runs in the family. Good news though, we went to the grocery store yesterday and got some more. We're having fajitas for dinner tonight and I'm going to celebrate this blog by having some salsa!

Salsa DNA

As I was looking for something to post about I found this interesting website claiming to have the secrets to the perfect salsa. In San Diego there is a restaurant called Papalote. This Mexican restaurant is held as having the best salsa around. All the locals are very passionate this salsa. The author of this article is trying to discover the secret recipe of this salsa. When the owners of the restaurant refused to disclose the family secrets then she tried other methods. Trying to create the salsa backwards was their best option. The salsa was pureed so in order to try to decipher the ingredients they strained it. When they still couldn't quite tell what all was in it they resorted to the next thing, DNA analysis. Come on now. Is this really necessary? If I ever find a salsa that I like that much, I think I'll just buy it. Going through all that trouble to break down each and every ingredient to recreate a salsa? These people need more things in their lives. http://www.chow.com/stories/10111