Salsa, defying mortality

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]>
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I made a fresh salsa a couple of weeks ago ... and it might
have been 3 weeks! Tomato, onion, garlic, like that. It's
been sitting in the refrigerator since then. I'm having it for
breakfast with some tortilla chips and you wouldn't know
it was more than a day old.

Weird. I did put lemon in it (sorry, didn't have a lime), but
how long will lemon preserve?? If you don't hear from me,
old salsa disease got me.

nancy

Salsa never lasts that long around here when I make it. Did you use canned
or fresh tomatoes? I'm thinking if you used canned the preservatives along
with the acid in the tomatoes and lemon might have helped preserve it a
bit. I'm not sure and that is just a guess. I'll have to do a salsa
experiment to see how long fresh salsa lasts 😉

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"Michael "Dog3" Lonergan" <[email hidden]> wrote

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"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]>

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Quoted message said:

I made a fresh salsa a couple of weeks ago ... and it might
have been 3 weeks! Tomato, onion, garlic, like that. It's
been sitting in the refrigerator since then. I'm having it for
breakfast with some tortilla chips and you wouldn't know
it was more than a day old.

Weird. I did put lemon in it (sorry, didn't have a lime), but
how long will lemon preserve?? If you don't hear from me,
old salsa disease got me.

Quoted message said:

Salsa never lasts that long around here when I make it. Did you use
canned
or fresh tomatoes? I'm thinking if you used canned the preservatives
along
with the acid in the tomatoes and lemon might have helped preserve it a
bit. I'm not sure and that is just a guess. I'll have to do a salsa
experiment to see how long fresh salsa lasts 😉

Heh. Funny. I used those Caprese tomatoes, and, yes, it was a
little amusing dicing up those little things. Maybe that's it. A large
tomato skin ratio keeping the flesh from dissolving. I just threw it
together at the last minute to serve with carnitas I'd bought from
Costco. That was a while ago.

This stuff is tasty.

nancy

Nancy Young said:

I made a fresh salsa a couple of weeks ago ... and it might
have been 3 weeks!

I has to be dangerous. Where do we send the flowers?

jay

Nancy Young said:

I made a fresh salsa a couple of weeks ago ... and it might
have been 3 weeks! Tomato, onion, garlic, like that. It's
been sitting in the refrigerator since then. I'm having it for
breakfast with some tortilla chips and you wouldn't know
it was more than a day old.

Weird. I did put lemon in it (sorry, didn't have a lime), but
how long will lemon preserve?? If you don't hear from me,
old salsa disease got me.

nancy

I would think salsa lasts longer than a lot of other dips and sauces due
to the tomato (acid) content? That's just my guess.

I often make my own salsa, but I occassionally go to a couple of local
Mexican restaurants to buy some of their "house" salsa (16 or 32 oz.).
The small 16 oz. portion is only about $2 and oh-so-much better than any
bottled stuff at a regular grocery store. However, it's not quite as
good as my very own salsa when I make it <VBG>.

Sky, who can make some 'mean' salsa

Nancy Young said:

Weird.  I did put lemon in it (sorry, didn't have a lime), but
how long will lemon preserve??  If you don't hear from me,
old salsa disease got me.

Can I have your car?