> tomatoes and onion basically. i tried it once. It was the same sensation you get when you drink a coke that's lost all its fizz. Same taste, but it tastes really nasty unless it has the hot.

Heh. Sounds like the Tex-Mex brandname of salsa :)

Since I really dislike the supermarket salsas, my husband has suggested coming up with something better. How about "Roasted Two Tomato Salsa with Thai Flavorings" or something like that? Like chopped up freshly roasted Roma tomatoes along with some sun-dried tomatoes, thai basil, yellow rock, balsamic vinegar, red Asian chilis, green scallions. Great! now I have a flavour *concept*. All I need to figure out is a proportional recipe to go along with it ;) Any salsa experts to the rescue who know the trick of making chunky, not runny salty dips? How do you roast tomatoes anyway?


> > > They also generally don't use anything hot on it, which is really stupid IMHO. they have the "minnesota salsa" which has no hot stuff in it.
> >
> > Ignoring the fact that "Minnesota salsa" sounds incredibly cool, why wouldn't you put any hot stuff in salsa? What DO they put in it?
> >
> > mi "looking forward to a cotton candy salsa" key