Roasted Tomato Salsa

Once I realized how easy making my own salsa was I stopped buying the stuff in a jar. Feel free to adjust ingredient amounts to suit your taste.

What you need:

• 4 large Roma tomatoes
• 1 jalapeno pepper
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 clove garlic, unpeeled
• 1/4 cup cilantro
• 1/4 onion, coarsely chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
• salt to taste
• 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice

What to do:

1. Preheat broiler.
2. Place tomatoes and jalapeno pepper on a foil covered cookie sheet. Drizzle with olive oil. 
3. Broil for 5 to 10 minutes, or until outsides of veggies are charred to your liking.
4. Remove and discard jalapeno stem.
5. In a food processor or blender, coarsely chop the charred vegetables, garlic, onion, cilantro, and cumin. Transfer to a bowl and mix in salt & lime juice. Eat up!

 Here's my charred jalapeno... it kind of looks like a dried up frog.

We had tamales for dinner and topped them off with my salsa. Glad it didn't taste like frog.