Rainbow Salsa
Happy Cinco de Mayoooooooooo!
As this post goes live today, I will be fiesta-ing it up with some peanuts and pretzels on a flight to California, which means that I will regrettably miss all of the festivities in Kansas City with my friends on my favorite foodie holiday of the year. BUT, have no fear, I have been hard at work making up for my impending Cinco de Mayo absence by eating Mexican food with friends nearly every day this past week. So many tacos! So many margaritas! So many chips and salsa!!!
As many of you know, I kind of have a thing for chips and salsa. So much so, actually, that I decided to turn my Dos De Mayo birthday party this year into a mega Dip-A-Thon. I made a batch of (spicy) fresh pineapple margaritas, some restaurant-style salsa, skinny buffalo chicken dip, and Italian guac to share. Then a few dozen friends all piled into my loft with surprise dips and drinks of their own in tow.
It was this chips and salsa lover’s dream come true.
We had soooo many dips!!! And you know how the birthday girl usually gets the first slice of cake? Well, I had the even greater honor of sampling the first bite of nearly every dip. And oh man, my friends can cook. We had everything from hummus, to quesos, to guacamoles, to tzatziki, to salsas galore. But my favorite dip of the night was actually made by my friend, Stacey, who brought the most gorgeous (and enormous) bowl of rainbow salsa to share. As the night wore on, I found myself slipping back for seconds and thirds of the stuff — partly because it was just so fresh and delicious, but partly because I was madly in love with how gorgeous and colorful it was!
Ironically, I’d actually been meaning to try making a rainbow salsa of some sort for the blog this summer. So I decided to take some inspiration from Stacey and whip up a second batch to give to some neighbors as a Cinco de Mayo gift before leaving town. It was vibrant, it was easy, it was healthy, and good grief — it was GOOD.
