Steph's Simple Life

Well for years now I've been making my own salsa, it's quick and it's easy and so much better than what you can buy in the store.  No matter what, I always have the ingredients on hand to make salsa. Life is just better with salsa, well until we fell in love with Salsa's cousin Pico!  Pico is a little more time consuming, but so worth it.  The last couple of month's I've been perfecting my pico, and adding it with avocados to make guacamole...it's delicious! How do I make it? It's equal parts tomatoes and onions, cilantro, 2 jalapeno peppers, fresh lime juice (I use 2 limes) and salt. Cut the onions first, leaving them on the bottom of the bowl, then the tomatoes, then I combine my cilantro and jalapenos in the food processor and pulse a few times.  Combine with the onions and tomatoes, then squeeze the lime juice on, then salt and mix.....this needs to set up 24 hours or so for best flavor. (I use Roma tomatoes, because they hold up the be...

Since my last blog, I've been quite busy...in fact, I don't even know where to start!  So, I will split this actually into 2 blogs, one with crafts and one with what I've been doing in the kitchen! Sewing and Crafts When I last left off, I was working on my daughter's college blanket.  She wanted Angelo State's School colors, but I decided to also add the mascot, but I really didn't think that through, and didn't realize it until I got started.  Here's the finished product, we used fleece for the blanket and a various array of  other crap for the mascot. After that, I started working on a blanket for my nephew.  I combined my Domo pattern that I'd used previously for Josh's pillow (which is really Jodie's) I just had to shrink it down and the techniques that I used on Sarah's blanket, her it is "in progress." From the blankets, I started to work on something completely different.  A friend of mine has been m...