Stoney Acres

The tomatoes at Stoney Acres are slowly starting to produce more.  And that means it’s time for Fresh Salsa.  We love homemade fresh salsa!  There is nothing better than its awesome tomato filled taste.  Now you need to understand that the Stoney’s are not hot salsa lovers.  In fact we don’t put any hot peppers in our salsa but all you need to do is add your choice of spicy pepper to the recipe below.

Fresh Salsa

2 large ripe tomatoes

1 small onion (we like onion so we some times add more)

1 green bell pepper

2-3 cloves garlic

5 large jalapeno peppers (we leave these out)

1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt

1/2 to 1 tablespoon sugar

Use 2 large or 4 to 5 small tomatoes

Using a blender or food processor put 1 each of all vegetables and using pulse just until it is still chunky.  Repeat until it is all done.

It’s always easier to cut things up a bit before you put them in the food processor

Mix salsa, adding sugar and salt until it suits your taste.  If it seems to hot, add more tomatoes.  Store in glass jar.  Since this is fresh, it will not store too long.  Makes about 1 quart.  Must be refrigerated.

We love our “Ultimate Chopper”

We like a nice runny salsa so we leave all the liquid in.  If you like yours a little dryer you can drain all or some of the liquid to your taste.

Tomatoes before the “Ultimate Chopper” does it’s job

Tomatoes after only 4 or 5 “pulses” with the Ultimate Chopper

This is a really flexible recipe.  If you need more double it, less cut it in half.  Start off with the smaller amounts of salt and sugar, taste it and add more to match your taste.  Not hot enough for you, add more jalapenos, to hot?  Add more tomatoes.

The finished product

This is one of the highlights of fresh tomato season for us.  We make at least one batch a week all of August to October.  We even bring in the green tomatoes before the first frost and let them ripen in the garage to make more salsa.  Our last batch for last season was made on new years day!!  I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do.