You’ve no doubt seen green salsa (aka salsa verde) in those jars or cans lining the grocery store shelves.  Or maybe you’ve seen it on the table at your favorite Mexican restaurant.  You have tried it right?  Right?

If you have, you know that it tastes completely different from it’s usual cohort in spicy crime: the popular tomato based red salsa (or maybe pico de gallo).  It’s got an almost citrusy tang and usually doesn’t pack a sweat inducing punch of heat.  It’s also got a few other flavors that maybe you can’t quite identify, but can certainly taste.

Since my garden isn’t in yet, although I’ve got my bags of chicken manure at the ready, I found these tomatillos at my favorite Latin market.  Last year, I made lazy chicken tamales with some of these little green orbs plucked from my garden.  I promise you’ll be seeing more recipes for tomatillos this year.  I have to admit that I made this roasted tomatillo salsa recipe several times last summer and it never made it to the blog.  Mostly because Craig ate it all before I could even get a chip-full of it.  Forget taking a picture of it.

Fresh tomatillo salsa has a light, fresh and almost immediate flavor.  It’s best served cold and is perfect for slathering (liberally) over your favorite tortilla chips.  Roasted tomatillo salsa is the richer and more settled flavored of the two (even though the ingredients may be exactly the same).   Think of roasted tomatillo salsa as the more worldly sister, rather than the wild child that is the fresh tomatillo salsa recipe.  The roasting of the ingredients balances freshness with the sweetness of caramelization that can only come from pan roasting the ingredients.  It’s not only a match made in heaven for dunking tortilla chips, but it’s also the perfect accompaniment to grilled meats or a delicious and colorful topping to a huge plate of warm loaded nachos.  Or spoon this roasted salsa verde recipe liberally over a breakfast of scrambled eggs and home fries for a little south of the border pizazz.  Try replacing the traditional hollandaise sauce with tomatillo salsa for a spin on the classic eggs Benedict.

Relationship Advice

A guy doing some yard work found this note recently and I think this shows that us ladies know what we want from a very early age.  These seem like pretty basic wants to me.  Apparently everything after the age of six, that we’re looking for in a guy, is just a bunch of add-ons.

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