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Red Onion Salsa

Red Onion Salsa

This post is up late today!  That is what you get when you have visitors and lots of fun over the weekend.  We went up into the mountains both days, enjoyed the gorgeous scenery, and beautiful weather.  After dropping my family off at the airport last night, we made our way back to Fort Collins, and I was just too tired to do much of anything.  I was supposed to have a fun post for you today, but it hasn’t been officially approved yet, hopefully later this week!

I do have a Giveaway going on, you don’t want to miss!

Tomorrow is the first day of school for my 2nd grader.  Today we need to go grocery shopping (need stuff for school lunches again), label his school supplies, meet the teacher, and try to do something fun for this last day of summer break!  A lot to cram into one little day, good thing we all slept in today :)

This salsa is one we have been making for years!  When we first got married  almost 11 years ago, we started planting a garden.  Salsa was the one thing we wanted to get out of our garden, so lots of tomatoes and peppers were planted.  This is one of the first recipes we tried, and have been making it since.  It is always a hit with friends and at get-togethers.  I made this before my parents got here, and when we had it with dinner even my mom remembered having this salsa many times before.

Unfortunately, I do not know the source of this recipe.  I have it handwritten on a recipe card, with no reference to where we found it.

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Avocado Bruschetta

Avocado Bruschetta
I could pretty much live on avocados.  I eat them on or in just about anything.  So the other day when we were trying to think of a light dinner and my husband suggested Bruschetta, I knew exactly what I was going to do.  We had lots of tomatoes from the garden that needed to get used, so I made a traditional version as well.  But I had to turn the avocado that was ripe into something as well.

My husband requested that I make homemade bread for this, so I did.  Any French or Italian loaf from the store would work equally well.  There is just something about the smell of bread baking in your house that can’t be beat.  After we were done eating my husband said he would have actually paid money at a restaurant for this meal.  Considering it was entirely vegetarian that is HUGE praise coming from him.  There are still a few tomatoes on my plants, so I am hoping to make the traditional version again, and actually take pictures before we eat it all :)

I enjoyed this with a glass of wine, and it was the perfect end to the day.  We tried to get our 7 year old to eat it, but he was not a fan.  He did prefer the avocado version to the tomato version, but  still wouldn’t take more than the one bite we made him have.   The only thing that could have made this better would be patio furniture.  This meal seems perfect for sitting outside, and enjoying the weather.

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