This Salsa Making Didn't Go As Planned (Sort-of a recipe) | Roots and Refuge Kitchen
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6-8 lbs of tomatoes, quartered and cored
8-10 Peppers (Jalapenos or Serranos)
Head of Garlic
2 Onions
1-2 Bunches of Cilantro
Up to 1/4 C honey
2. T Good Salt
Juice of 1 Lemon
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#salsa #roastedsalsa #salsarecipe
I save and freeze the liquid that is released when roasting tomatoes and add it to soup. It adds so much flavor, I call it liquid gold
🤦🏻♀️ great idea!!! I'm having so many "why didn't I think of that!?" moments reading through this thread. 😁
I usually just put it in my pot and cook it way down before putting my salsa in, so you concentrate the flavours
I roast all of my tomatoes these days for sauce with garlic, onions oregano and basil, salt and olive oil. I drain off the extra liquid and freeze in small containers about a cup or so. I treasure that liquid, it makes my soup. I purée the rest and freeze, that’s my sauce. With just two of us now, that’s how we roll. I am a woman who canned 100 quarts of tomatoes packed in juice, not water in one day with my Grandma’s help and my baby crawling around the kitchen back in the day, about 40 years ago. Things have changed, but those days were fun and satisfying. We are down to 12 tomato plants now. Three good hills of cucumbers and lots of herbs.
Angela Collins i was thinking the same
I do the same you arr so right
a lot of negatives are going on in my life, your positive attitude has been a blessing in my life. Also since I started watching my gardening skills have improved.
I'm so glad you shared the real process of cooking. That's what really helps people who are learning. They follow a recipe exactly and think they did something wrong when it isn't perfect the first time they taste it. Then they get frustrated and may give up. I swear the most important lesson in learning to cook is to taste your food, then adjust it. As you practice and gain experience, you get better at anticipating what a recipe will need, or knowing what to add when it isn't quite right.
I'm awful at sharing my recipes with people because I just add till it looks and tastes right.
Kristy Dickens same 😂🥰
Me too!!!
Exactly what I was going to say!
I rarely use a written recipe w things like this.
Cooking this way is what makes it fun for me!
It's make it as you like it - all the way!
Thanks Jess for a "real" cooking video! ♡
I'm trying to teach my daughter how to cook, and she is a very step-by-step person. (Where did she get THAT from?!?)
So now I have a video to show her, before we begin our salsa experience, and she will know what to expect.
Which is what makes it easier for her.
This "real" way of cooking IS something everyone should learn how to do - in my opinion.
Thanks Again Jess,
GREAT VIDEO ♡♡♡
Same here! We're trying to make a recipe book for my mother in law and it's been hard because I never measure things lol. Just do things base on taste and preference
I'm the same way. When people ask for my recipe I cant even say what I put in it. It changes almost everytime! It was only when I realized recipes were a springboard for creativity that i learned how to really cook!
Yes! I give recipes to my friends as a list of ingredients... a couple of them can't handle it.... they go by exact measurements. :)
"Tweak as needed," my life motto! Next tshirt 😁
Patty Meade-Austin LOL!!! ABSOLUTELY ❣️
Totally!
I want that shirt! 😁
Tweaker
My dad was raised by his grandparents. In the summer, my great-grandfather grew fields of tomatoes. When ripe, they would pick them, and can them in metal cans on an outdoor fire to sell at stores. Water bath canning was almost the only canning my mom ever did. She didn't use the pressure canner except for when there was no option. Over the decades, water bath canning has been fine. Nothing has changed.
"If you don't have cilantro, what are you even doing with your life?" Fell out of my chair chuckling. Completely agree. Jess, next time you use yellow tomatoes you can add some pineapple (maybe your ground cherries) and or some mango and you can have a fresher salsa. Quite yummy.
totally agree.... had me in stitches on the floor...
Me too. Loved it. Great idea about pineapple and mango .
not me. I hate that crap. lol. If you could taste what we taste.. you'd know.. Ugh.. it's so awful to my taste buds~ lol.
Or mango
Cilantro doesn't like me.
I love adding lime juice to salsa!! Pico de gallo, tomatillo salsa, and fire roasted are some favorites of mine
I was thinking that lime juice would go great with that cilantro, too.
I will too of I'm making a Mexican style tomato sauce or salsa. I make a pico de gallo with a avocado or avocado salad. I don't mash my avocados. I leave them in chunks.
I always use lime juice as well.
When you said " I'm of the frame of mind you can't use too much garlic " I said aaaamen sister. 🤣
Preach!😆
Yaaaassssss
Love that you are keeping it real during the process. The rest of us mortals won’t feel so foolish trying to make salsa.
Never would have thought that you would use honey. Can’t wait to try this out.
Thank you for sharing ❤️
I've been making salsa for years and never thought to roast the ingredients. I followed your advice this year and it's the best batch of salsa ever! Thank you!
I know these videos aren’t your favorite but I really enjoy them! So thank you for making them for us! 🥰🥰
Been waiting with my earbud in at work for this vid! Time to go hide to watch😉
I love the way your showing us the real way you cook, because your showing the real you not a phony you. I enjoy watching how you roll!
I LOVE that you kept the video AS IS and didn’t redo it to make it look easy. It’s more real life moments and I appreciate you for that! 🥰
Great video. Life is about rolling with the punches and making it all work out in the end. Too many people would have called that a fail, but you handled it gracefully and were flexible with the process. Thank you for showing the 'real'.
This is exactly why I love to cook - and not bake - when cooking, you get to adjust to the tastes of those you’re cooking for♥️
Me too.
Me too I LOVE to cook.... But HATE to bake...
@@kmiller6002 Twins!!
My garden is finally a success this year thanks to you I can't wait to try this recipe
If you leave everything whole and put heat up to around 400 until it all gets darker than your’s did this time you also get a much richer roasted flavor. I love the honey and lemon . Thanks so much for being just a Real person down to earth I appreciate that so much.
how long do you roast it at 400°F with all vegetables whole?
I looove your kitchen videos. I know they're not the most comfortable for you to make, but thank you so much for making and sharing them. Also, this is perfect because I'm about to harvest a bumper crop of tomatoes and needed something to do with them.
The cilantro thing is genetic, its pretty interesting......im so glad you made a salsa, my big tomatoes are blushing and I had been looking for a recipe. Red Sauce recipie next! 😂😂😂
I use to hate cilantro till my second pregnancy now i love it 🙈🤷
That happened to me with eggplant!
Cilantro tastes like soap to me.
Thistle Moon me too!
@@thistlemoon1 yep thats genetic! Its pretty cool what gets passed down thru the good old genes
I love the honesty in this video. I consider myself a decent cook and sometimes I need to tweak the hell out of my own recipes. You go, girl!
"I had to buy tomatoes from the store..." talk about PTSD😂😂
Al's Homestead cute comment. I live in the Pacific Northwest, my tomatoes are just now blooming. I do freeze as many as I can.
Thanks for keeping it real! It's refreshing to watch a video that shows us how to tweak and deal when things don't go as planned.
PS- had our first "kitchen day" today and your videos were on repeat! (first year our garden has been producing a great harvest- much thanks to your channel!) Root and Refuge has been a go to for us! Thank you!
Thanks for keeping it real. That's what I love most about your videos. Keep up the good work!
I love the giant puppy’s snoot is at bench height! I have big greyhounds so also run into this issue, but it’s always interesting to see other snoot’s getting into mischief
Thank you Jess for always being so honest and transparent about things! :)
Hi Jess~ I really appreciate that you not only showed how you make salsa, but also what you do when it doesn't turn out as planned. It will definitely save a lot of people from throwing away a batch because it isn't quite right. Especially those who have to make something exactly the way the recipe says. Thank you so much for sharing this!
It warms my heart to see my comment from a year ago and know how much I’ve learned. This salsa is fantastic and I did can it! YUM! Thank you!
AWESOME video!!!! That's what's so easy to like about you. Your just REAL!!! I've learned especially with my sauce...Nothing Ever comes out the same, but ya tweek it as you go and it's always good in the end! ❤
Thank you for not remaking this and being so honest! I have learned more from you showing how to trouble shoot that this didn't turn out as planned!!
Do you think darker varieties, Cherokee purples or black beauties, would have a more profound flavor in this? Darker tomatoes have become my favorite this year.
Yes, definitely. I think the combo of the milder tomatoes, not roasting high enough with the oven preheating and those cilantro bunches being so big all played into it.
I find lime is a good alternative to the lemon.
Laura Garmon I love LIME IN MY SALSA
I like lime better for a lot of things
Love limes in salsa!
I like lemon in salsa and lime in guacamole.
Lime is my favorite too.
You are nice to hang out with , a real down to earth person it’s a pleasure to learn from you , thank you
I so appreciate you and how you share your life with the world. I am growing tomatoes for the first time this year and cannot wait to make salsa with them! Keep being real ❤️
This has got to be the 30th time I have watched this video. I search for it for motivation with shat to do with my peppers and tomatoes. Yet, I get a great salsa recipe and the GRACE I need to even attempt at cooking homemade salsa. Thank You Jess! You speak to my soul before I even know I need you 🥰❤️
Wish me luck with my salsa 🤞🏽
Your videos, that I learn the most from, are when things don't work out as planned and here's how we're gong to adjust it. Or, it turned out different but it's OK like that and here's why.
Right now I get frustrated several times a day, it won't always be like this, things will improve. I am better at turning off that frustration because you set the example. It's OK to get frustrated, take a minute, let it go and move on. Thank you for being a good influence.
And as always, thank you for blessing me, I bless you back.
I agree!
Another year has gone by and I’m back at this video to aid in my salsa I’m making from my garden!!! Thank you for all the value you bring me!!! 💖💖💖
Oh, and I want to add that I really like your kitchen videos. My daughter (who is one of the pickiest eaters in the world), suggested making pickles with the cucumbers from our plant. She used the recipe from your recent Quick Pickle video. Can't wait to try them!
When I learned to cook from my Italian grandma she always said “quanto basta” when making a recipe That means “as needed” When using garden fresh ingredients sometimes you need to tweek things a little Always taste your food before serving❤️💚
i LOVE the baskets you use. I dont have a farm yet but when i do, i want baskets like those everywhere for all kinds of random jobs!
You are the cutest! I completely understand your frustration but thank you for being your genuine self!
Thank you for showing the whole process I feel like a lot of people don’t cook because it’s not perfect every time, but they don’t realize even the best cooks have to tweak things they just edit that part out ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much, not just for the recipe, but for the lesson on, if you can improve something, you don't have to settle for something that isn't quite right.
My mom never pressure canned anything and all of us (six kids) survived!
I totally share your feelings on cilantro :) hahah that made me laugh out loud.
Love seeing you in your beautiful kitchen, amazing work space! So awesome that you've left in the reality of creating. How you thought out loud about why and how you decided to correct your issues. You are an amazing instructor sharing your life experiences with a peaceful humorous attitude, no panic things happen. With all that's happening in the world you are a Blessing, thank you, Bear too!
I am so glad to see someone else who is obviously knowledgeable, does things the same way I do. By the seat of the pants always!
I just had my first tomatoe sandwich in years and it was delicious. My big tomatoes aren't ripe yet so I bought one from a local farmers stand. I put two layers of thin slices, some mayo, salt, onion powder and garlic powder and wow, yummy!
Hi Jess. I made salsa last night for the first time using your recipe with tomatoes from my garden and OMG it is delish!! I don’t want to ever eat store bought salsa again. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe.
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Jess, this is an absolute phenomenal salsa recipe! Thank you for sharing with us!
You cook a lot like I do. I tweak a lot of my things especially if I know how it is supposed to taste and look. I am really excited to try this. Thanks for being so real and honest.
When I am using yellow tomatoes I make a fruit salsa. It is my nanas salsa recipe but with yellow and orange instead of red and then I add 1/2 a fresh pineapple and 3 mangos. My husband eats it all before I can get it packaged for the freezer!
Yum! Do you use the same - everything else she did, peppers, onions, garlic w/ that too?
@@ramibu239 yes! but I use a habanero also but we like spice
great job is cooking videos like this that give young people the courage to cook. God has blessed you with true skills to aide the younger generation
The “real process” taught me so much more than if it hadn’t happened. Thank you!
This summer I’ve been winging it with dinners most nights. Really trying to utilize everything coming in. I have a bad habit of making recipes up as I go and then when my husband asks for it again I can’t remember.
I have that same habit and I don't think its a bad one at all! You and I....we're geniuses! 😁
I love that you show us "mistakes" because i have a perfectionist mindset sometimes and i would consider it a failure if it didnt come out just right instead of thinking what i could do to fix it. I am learning that its ok to learn and keep trying instead of saying i cant do something because it did not go how i thought it should.
I loved the teaching video! It was wonderful to see how to correct the salsa!
I LOVE that you shared this without starting over. Cooking is an art and IS a process. Although in MY opinion, if you dont like cilantro you should just skip salsa and go make your bruschetta! Lol.
I have water bath canned tomatoes for literally decades using citric acid and salt. NEVER have had a jar fail and we have never gotten sick on them. I do it with juice, whole tomatoes and tomato sauce. I feel confident that it works. I have also water bath canned salsa and never a problem with that either. Just add 1/2 tsp. citric acid for pints and 1 tsp. citric acid for quarts. I also add 1/2 tsp. Redmans real salt per pint and 1 tsp. salt for quarts. :)
You are a breath of fresh air.
😂 you make me laugh Jess talking about the cilantro. I am finally writing down your recipe! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for being real Jess! I feel like nothing ever goes right for me when I'm cooking so its nice to see it can happen to anyone!
So much of cooking is fluid, you have to be able to adjust! Really enjoy your channel and Congratulations on your book!
Wish you and your family well😊
Thanks so much!
Thank you for being real. Yes, cilantro is the best part of salsa.
I’m having a hard time figuring out smaller batches of canning. I’ve been canning for about 7 years. In the past when canning we would typically buy our produce from a local farm and do a day of canning... 50 jars of strawberry jam, 30 jars of tomatoes. Now I have 10 tomatoes and 2 green peppers! What do I do?! 🤣 Our garden is doing well but it’s the first year since I was a kid, it’s on the smaller side so there will be no 20lbs of tomatoes at a time! Already have plans for a bigger garden next year! 2020 has been a whirlwind! Jess I’m so glad I found you 😍
“..but if you don’t put it all, then what are you even doing with your life?” 🤣🤣🤣🤣💕💕💕💕💕 I LOVE cilantro lol. Too funny
i love that you showed the whole process
I enjoyed it and probably especially so because it's so real it's what happens every day and we have to learn to adjust our recipes and go on thank you
We pretty much do the same salsa. I don't always roast the vegs but just whip it all up raw then freeze. In the winter it's better than any other salsa out there and tastes summery fresh. I love cilantro too and keep planting it throughout summer. Thanks for your always sunny personality, wish I could smile at walking through garden webs.
This is the most delicious salsa I have ever eaten. Thank you for the recipe!
I asked yesterday about a sausa recipe and many thanks, I'm going to try this and let you know how mine turned out! your garden turned out great. thanks for sharing all your family adventures!
I love this video and the fact that you are so down to earth and real. God has been tugging on my heart a lot in 2020 to homestead and garden bigger. Im a very emotional person and this may sound odd, but when I watch things like what you are doing, gardening, kitchen canning and ALL THE THINGS lol. It makes me want to cry because I want those things for myself as well. What Im trying to say lol, is your videos tug at my heart, whether it be I see myself in you, I see myself doing what you do, or I yearn for the day I do those things too. Thank you. Even in this video I got emotional lol Please keep doing what you do. God bless you. He's working on me through learning from you. ❤
I love love love you showed the learning and adapting process!! At first I followed recipes and ended up with less than amazing products but the process is the real learning!!! Thank you Jess!!!
Keepin' it REAL with Jess! It's the ONLY way we'd want it. whether in the GARDEN or KITCHEN!
Thanks for making me smile today! and btw I LOVE CILANTRO as well!
Thanks Jess for the extra time to share your recipe. Looks amazing. Have a great day
I so appreciate when people are vulnerable and share when things don't go according to plan or "fail". Every day and experience is different! Thank you!
I agree, I could see she was stressed a little bit. She is real and thats what I like. Not only did she share the recipe, she was like ok this did not turn out how I wanted it here is how I am fixing it. Perfection love it!!!
I’ve been making your salsa a few years now…a house favorite! 😍
I love video recipes with food from the garden.
Improvising is a great skill when it comes to preparing food!
Your kitchen look so good! Could we have a kitchen tour please? And tips and trick how you organized your kitchen.. 🙏👍
Grow my tomatoes grow!! I’m excited to make some homemade salsa!!
Hi Jessica. Thanks for the great salsa recipe. I made it last weekend with my tomato and jalapeño harvest and it turned out great. Everyone loved it and the freshness of it was extremely tasty! My jalapeños were not very spicy so I made two versions. the second version I toasted some red chili flakes in a bit of oil and added it to the salsa to spice it up. My husband and son loved both versions.
One of my favorite things about your videos is how authentic they are. It makes the projects/ideas/lifestyle you present so approachable. Authentic charm is your niche.🙂👍🏽💚
I really appreciate how you show the oops, mistakes or not quite not the way you wanted it to turn out moments. I was not allowed in the kitchen growing up and have dealt with constant inept feelings for decades. Im almost 50 now and still find such great comfort from seeing the 'real' kitchen happenings. That is true encouragement to me. That the way I figured out cooking by making things do and fixin them is just fine. Getting rid of that I'm not good enough or inept feelings that are not the truth.
You are very special, Jess. Thank you for sharing your true salsa making experience with us! ❤️
I love your videos. They are real-life, love your fixing it on the fly - that makes sense to me! Plus your videos are so positive and uplifting. I love watching them. Thank you!! ds
Thanks for the real process! I cook the same way, it's helpful to see how other people tweak their recipes as they go ☺️
I wish people wouldn't give you fits about what you do when it comes to canning this and that. I can do my own research, But I want to know what YOU do. We love watching you and how you do things for Your family! No one has to do it your way if they don't want to, and the ones that raise a fuss over it can go suck an egg, lol! Show us! And THANK YOU for EVERYTHING!!
Cooking like Grandma used to...real cooking. Bet it tastes even better on subsequent days as the flavors marry. 😋
I cook like you do as well. It drives my son crazy. He wanted to write down my recipes and I would pour the amount of whatever seasoning went into it into my hand and he took it and measured it lol I used to cook with written recipes for years, but now I hardly ever measure anything. Taste it and adjust. Thanks for showing us your salsa Oh one more thing. After your video on how to pickle, I did some refrigerator pickeling with my yellow cherry tomatoes, onions some red and green bell peppers. Added garlic, black pepper corns, chili flakes and corriander that I harvested from my cilantro. I love it! My son did not, but he is a tomato hater lol
Kitchen food flips. Love it, pro realty is enough for me. Thanks for sharing. Oh and you can dehydrate tomato skins, tomato powder.helps to thicken juicy food.
I'm off to put mine together.
Right now I wish I had a big yellow tomato 🍅. Mine's all Roma. Pressure canning tomatoes is apparently supposed to make them healthier for you. Water bathing is just fine. Been doing it for centuries.
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!! Love seeing what you do with the harvest!
I just made your salsa recipe Jess! It is some of the best I've ever made and it's not watery at all like you said! Thank you!
Perfect example of no recipe being the best recipe! Best lesson in life to learn.
Salsa is so fun you can always adjust before canning add more peppers add more tomatos salt pepper whatever 😋
You are the only channel I follow on TH-cam. I love the fact that you are a real person that does the same type of things we all do in our kitchens!
Just made this and it is absolutely incredible! Thank you so much! The depth of flavor was awesome. Will be making a large batch to can for winter =)
Your a good teacher! Thank you 😊
In my opinion you can never get salsa too spicy. This looks amazing and I will be trying this recipe, unless you want to send me a quart. Lol. Thanks for sharing. Have a blessed and safe week. Stay healthy.
Jess, making salsa today and I decided to watch your video. I roast my chilies, onions, and garlic. Tomatoes go into a huge kettle after cleaning them up and cutting in half. I cook/stew them for about 30 minutes, with salt and cumin to taste. And we use a masher to break them up a bit, that's for the chunky salsa. I do as you do for the roasted veggies and put them in the food processor. Then add to the chunky salsa and follow up as you did in your video. Next batch, the same process but I add everything to the food processor to make a smooth salsa. Also, I taste as you do, as I go. In my family, they enjoy very hot to very mild. Family and friends come over to pick up their jars. They never last!!! I also make fresh salsa, pico, for chips and dip. We enjoy your videos so much, please never stop making them. This family has changed and learned many ways of doing things from watching your videos. The easier the better, we say! lol Next is the greenhouse, a bigger one this time. Family and friends want to come over and garden in Great grandmama's place. Blessings from south Texas.
You cook the way I do. When it's my recipes I do not measure so when I'm trying to explain to my adult children how to make it, it's hard to put a measurement on it. I am definitely going to try your salsa recipe minus that much cilantro. I like my cilantro in increments. Thank you for sharing it. it looks really good. ❤❤