Today was awesome! Pretty much an ideal day for me. Got the house clean (and got to sing and dance to Broadway showtunes while doing it), got to cook some tasty meals. Had company over for burgers and Rock Band! I even earned good karma (if you call it that) by saving a car in the grocery store parking lot from almost certain destruction by runaway shopping cart, which (I'd like to think) led to me finding UNSALTED tortilla chips at HEB for the first time, as well as the stocker guy letting me get the brand new fresh green beans out of his crate before he stocked them. Like I said, good day. Throw in some hiking and romance, and it would be perfect.
Now, Recipes:
***NOM NOM NOM Hamburger Buns***
Make dough in bread maker with this:
1/2 c milk
1/2 c water
1 egg
1/4 c unsalted butter
3 c bread flour
2 T sugar
2 t yeast
Divide dough into 12 balls. Cover and rest 30 min. Brush with 1 Egg White and top with Sesame Seeds. Bake at 375 for 12 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack and slice in half to serve.
Soo yummy! FIlls your house with a delicious bakery smell even before you put them in the oven.
***Homemade Salsa***
1 green bell pepper
3 roma tomatoes
1 small white onion
1 t fresh cilantro (out of my garden, SCORE!)
juice of 1 lime
Chop everything really small. Put in a deep bowl and use an immersion blender to blend JUST PART OF IT. You could probably do this with a regular blender, too. Problem is, if you blend it more than a little, you get this pink foam and a weird taste. If you don't blend it at all, you don't have enough liquid parts to bind it as a cohesive dish. Trust me, I've made both of these mistakes.
I served this with my brand new Lightly Salted tortilla chips (50 mg per 15 chips, not bad). It is also good with unsalted chips, but I keep those all for me. Salsa keeps well for a few days.
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