Saturday, January 3, 2015

Salsa!


 Needed:
For this salsa you need a blender or a food processor.
1 can of whole tomatoes
2 cans of tomatoes and green peppers (mild, medium, or hot) your choose
1/2 of a onion
1 lime juice
2-4 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon of cumin
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 jalapeño
Freshly ground pepper
Sea salt


 
My lime juicer!!!!!!!
 For the mild salsa I used a quarter of the jalapeño.
Pulse until you get the consistency that you want it, we like are to be like a sauce.
 I filled three pint jars with one batch of this recipe.
For the Medium Salsa I used a three quarters of jalapeño, and use one medium and one mild tomatoes and green chilies.  I think next time I will toast my jalapeños to add just a little more flavor.
So happy to have this in my fridge, may be it would take so long for me to make them once they are out. 

If you really don't like spicy, you could always do away with the jalapeño and stick to mild tomatoes and green chiles it you want it spicier then I would add more jalapeños and maybe even you the hot green chiles and tomatoes. You can adjust to make you and your family happy!

Hand Wreath's

Remember when.....
Making hand wreaths. 
I didn't know exactly how I was going to do this, but I had something very similar in mind. I originally thought I would like to do a wreath of each boys hands although once we started we would of had to make more hands and I would have to cut them out which would mean that if we did that the boys would nap and then that makes out for a grouchy mommy. So... we combined them and we will smile about that ;-)!


Needed for this project:
paper plates
scissors
paper 
paint
glue
glitter
Christmas songs playing in the background! 

I drew a circle for MJ to cut it out and I cut out JD's inner circle.
 JD was so proud of his little hands.
 We did lots and lots of hands....
Painting time
 
We set aside the painted plates and it was now time for GLUE and GLITER! I helped JD put on his glue and MJ put 3 dots on each finger.
 The aftermath of the glue and glitter....
I love to see my boys working together to get a project done.
Here is the final product. My boys were pretty proud!