In which I have a small culinary triumph and use up cherries

I'm not much of a cook, honestly. My only real claim to cooking fame is a variety of soups entitled "Once in a Lifetime Soups" because the ingredients are entirely dependent on what looks good at the fresh market.


I have discovered in years of soup making that it's hard to mess up soup if you start with nice fresh ingredients* and have a friend or two cheerfully helping with the chopping parts

* however, too much cayenne pepper added to a batch of soup can make it more interesting than you planned. Sigh.

When Jim suggested that I use some of our cherries to make a cherry salsa, I told him to find me a recipe. He knows me, bless his little heart, and found a bunch of recipes. I looked at all that he send me, hmmmmmed over their measurements and stuff, and then left them all behind when I went to the fresh market and found some nice ingredients to put with the cherries.

Tah-dah! "Once in a Lifetime Cherry Salsa"!

I did take pictures of the process, so I can approximate what was in it. If you make some for yourself, I'd love to hear what you put in yours.

In a big mixing-bowl:

about 2 cups coursely chopped freshly-picked cherries

2 or 3 tomatoes, coursely chopped

1/4 cup or so of finely chopped red onion

chunk of yellow pepper, coursely chopped

chunk of green pepper, coursely chopped

leetle-bitty chunk of serano pepper, finely chopped

cilantro to taste, finely chopped

generously doused with

fresh lime juice

Let it chill for an hour or two to allow flavors to mingle.

serve with

favorite tortilla chips

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