pico de gallo AND guacamole!

i heart saturdays. i heart food. i heart mexican food.

we had a birthday party a couple of weekends back and i made this extremely easy recipe for

pico de gallo and guacomole.

compliments of

the

pioneer woman!!!

do you know who this is? have you ever perused salivated over her recipes? this girl does it all. she

lives on a ranch. she homeschools her children.

she takes awesome photographs.

she wrote a cookbook.

AND

she

cooks. and bakes. amazing. i want to be her. seriously.

anyway, this recipe for the pico and the guac came straight from her blog! her recipes are easy

and she is funny as well. hop on over and take a peek! you will feel

right at home!

pico de gallo

■5 whole Plum (roma) Tomatoes

■½ whole Large (or 1 Small) Onion

■3 whole Jalapeno Peppers

■Cilantro

■Lime Juice

■Salt To Taste

Pico de Gallo:


Chop jalapenos, tomatoes and onions into a very small dice. (Leave seeds in your jalapenos for a hotter pico). Adjust amount of jalapenos to your preferred temperature. Next, chop up a nice-sized bunch of cilantro. Just remove and discard the long leafless stems before chopping. No need to remove the leaves from the stems completely. Place all of these ingredients together in a bowl and give it a good stir.
Squeeze the juice of half of one lime into the bowl. Add salt to taste and stir again.

Guacamole


Start with buttery-soft avocados. Halve them lengthwise and remove the pits. Next, with a spoon scrape the “meat” out onto a large plate. Next, with the bottom of a clean cup (or with a fork) mash the avocados, making sure to leave it relatively chunky. Add just a couple of shakes of salt to taste. Next, add a generous helping of Pico de Gallo. Fold together. Lastly squeeze the juice of half of a lime over the top. Give it one last stir.
 
the pico de gallo:
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
annnd the yummy guacamole:
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
the pics are kind of blurry....i need to work on the photography skills....i bet ree, the pioneer woman
can help me out with that also! she is one amazing lady.
 

everyone gobbled up both of these like nobody's business.

if you love salsa also, you

can throw all of the same ingredients in your

food processor with a little olive oil and process until salsa consistency...

 

um, dont mix the avacados in if you are making salsa. (i am quite sure all of you would

figure that out...but just in case.....)

 

now scurry off doing the mexican hat dance and make some yumminessssss!!!

 

happy saturday~

love and huggies,

t