Fresh Vegetable Salsa

This fresh-tasting salsa recipe is great to have when your garden is booming! Popular & versatile, it is a difficult recipe to get down on "paper" as I never really make it the same way twice. Always a hit on the deck in the summer!

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Yields: 4 cups

Ingredients

• 1  large tomatoes
• 1  medium onion
• 1  carrot
• 1  red bell peppers or 1  green bell pepper
• 4  cauliflower florets
• 1  stalk celery
• 1⁄2 cup pitted ripe olives
• 1  clove garlic, minced
• 1⁄4 cup  pickled jalapeno pepper, diced,reserve juice
• 1⁄3 cup  pickled jalapeno pepper juice, from the jar

Directions

1. Finely dice all vegetables, tomato thru olives.
2. Combine all ingredients in a glass bowl.
3. Cover& refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight, stirring occasionally.
4. Serve with taco chips.
5. Notes: Use any firm veggies you have on hand.
6. Do not omit the jalepenos or their juice.
7. If you have leftovers, try this in a"fusion-type" stir-fry, in scrambled eggs, or in soup.