Grow it! Cook it! Eat it! Live it!

This weeks recipe is a grilled salsa.  I have been picking more tomatoes that we can eat fresh lately so I decided to make some salsa.   I really enjoy a salsa with a smoky flavour so I grilled all the veg before blending it.  I grilled Tomatoes (2 beefsteak tomatoes, and about 30 grape tomatoes), onion (about 4 large slices), garlic (3 cloves), one habenero, one cherry bomb pepper, and one yellow bell pepper.  I blackened the peppers so that I could remove the skin.  The onions and tomatoes I grilled till soft and the garlic I grilled till soft and removed the skin. Once everything was grilled and skinned I put it all in a blender with about 1/4 of lime juice, 1/2 cup of cilantro chopped, 1 tsp of coriander seeds, 1 tsp of zilitol (a sugar substitute) 1 tsp of salt and 1 tsp of pepper.  I blended it up and then canned it.  (Note this recipe was for a hot salsa because of the habenero you can adjust ingredients to match your spice level).

Thanks to Sharon for linking up last week with her Pumpkin and Silver Beet Lasagna.

Each week I will post a recipe that highlights cooking and eating locally grown food. The recipes can be for fast meals, dinner parties, picnics, etc.  I will try to focus on foods that I grow in my own garden.  Please join me in celebrating the outdoors, food and gardening by posting a recipe that you have cooked this past week and linking up.  I will post a new recipe each week on sundays and you can link up throughout the week.  Please link directly to the post not your blog, and don't forget link back to this series on your post.

1. Live in the Yard: Grilled Salsa	2. Live in the Yard: Leek & Potato Soup with Crispy Bacon and Potato Skin Bits	3. Brocoli and Sardine Cakes	4. Hedgerow Jelly
5. Live in the Yard: Thai Beef Salad	6. Sharon's Patch - Pumpkin & Silver-beet Lasagna	7. Braised beef in tomato sauce	8. Garden Fresh Salsa Cruda & Pico de Gallo
9. Live in the Yard: Fajitas on the fire.

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