Mango-Black Bean Salsa

This is one of my all-time favorite recipes....I make it in Spring/Summer every year.

This is a doubled recipe, with slightly different ingredients- I subbed sugar instead of agave/maple syrup bc we are out of those, 1 red and 1 yellow onion instead is sweet onion, dry parsley bc we don’t have fresh right now. It obviously tastes best with all fresh, home-grown ingredients, but it’s still pretty damn good using Pricerite Roma tomatoes, lol.

Mango-Black Bean Salsa (double if you want as much as in the pic)

1 ripe mango

2 med tomatoes

1/2 bell pepper

1 jalapeño

1 sweet onion

1 clove of garlic minced or pressed

1 can black beans, rinsed & drained

1 TBS each lemon and lime juice

1 tsp of agave or maple syrup

salt & pepper

small handful fresh parsley, (we genetically don't like cilantro, it tastes like soap to all of us: if you like cilantro, use that)

Mix sweetener with lemon and lime juices in your container. Cut everything up and mix together. Serve with tortilla chips or over Gardien or other vegan chick’n over rice. Or in a taco or just spoon it right into your mouth, lol.

No real recipe...

Yesterday early afternoon I premade pasta salads for yesterday’s dinner and tonight’s...totally off-cuff.

Last night we had Italian-inspired (pasta, fresh tomatoes, bell pepper, onion, kale, cukes, lentils and herb-roasted tofu in a doctored Italian dressing: about half n half Italian dressing, vegan pesto with some balsamic vinegar and oil… More added), I served it with French’s-type fried onions on top....tonight is a Mexican-inspired (pasta, bell pepper, diced jalapeño, onion, corn, canned diced tomatoes w/chilies, diced cukes, lentils, herb-roasted Tofu and diced veggie burger in a doctored Italian dressing: half n half Italian dressing and salsa, puréed with a pk of Sasón and some Sofrito mixed into it and a little more vinegar and oil). It’ll be served with fried tortilla strips on top.

Why is the off-the-cuff stuff THE BEST? When I try to duplicate it, it’ll still be yummy but DH will inevitably say, “this is delicious but it’s different than last time?” LOL.