Pico de Gallo

This is a classic salsa, good with just about anything from chips to tacos. It is often served at Mexican restaurants, and is super easy to make.

Ingredients
4 roma tomatoes, chopped
1 onion, finely chopped
1/2 cup cilantro, finely chopped
2 jalapeño peppers, seeded and chopped*
1 Tbps. lime juice (1/2 lime)
salt to taste

Directions
Combine all ingredients except salt in a medium/large bowl. Mix well.

Add salt to taste.

ENJOY!

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*NOTE: Leave some seeds depending on how spicy you want your salsa, we like to remove all the seeds for our salsa (mostly because my stomach can't handle too much spice).

Guacamole

You really can't go wrong with a good guacamole, and this one never lasts long. This recipe is very easy to make and extremely tasty.

Ingredients
3 avocados
1 large jalapeño, seeds removed
1/2 medium onion
1 medium tomato
salt and lime juice to taste

Directions
Dice up the jalapeño, onion, and tomato put in a medium size mixing bowl.

Cut avocados in half, remove pit, and scoop avocado out and add to the bowl.

Add salt and lime juice, a good shake of salt and about a two second squeeze of lime juice (we use the kind that comes in the little green plastic lime).

Using a potato masher (as shown at right) mash mixture to desired texture.

ENJOY!

Whirley Pop Popcorn

 

We love popcorn. I even have an entire Pinterest board dedicated to it. However, many prepackaged microwave popcorn's contain dairy. We have an air popper (an old school looking one from my mother), which is pretty fantastic. When we do air pop, we like to spray it with Crisco Butter Spray and salt it with popcorn salt. But sometimes you just get those cravings for movie theatre style popcorn (without all the extra fat of course). Enter, Whirley Pop. Produced by Wabash Valley Farms, this stove top popper is a miracle maker. However, there are two "secret" ingredients to making truly theatre quality homemade popcorn.

Ingredients
3/4 cup popcorn kernels
1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
1 heaping tsp, Flavacol

Directions
Place all ingredients in Whirley Pop, turn handle for approximately 3 minutes until pops are about 1 to 2 seconds apart.

Remove from heat and dump into large popcorn bowl.

ENJOY!

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*Special Note: This contraption is so wonderfully fantastic, I even made my first ever animated gif for it. :)