Salsa With Nachos, My Name Day and DMBLGIT Award

Yesterday was my name day. Let me explain. In Slovakian calendars, we have names assigned to particular dates. This means, once a year, you get to be celebrated again ... (yes, we have birthdays, as well). So, yesterday (August 11th), the calendar called for my real name, Zuzana.
Having that in mind, I had a pretty good day. And then, it got even better...

I updated my blog event list and checked back on those I participated.... And there it was....
Sarah of Food And Paper published the Winners of July´s DMBLGIT... And there was I... and my tadka... proudly occupying the 3rd place :) Out of 88 pictures !!!

So congratulations, Zlamushka, this one goes to you :

So that much for my first name day present.
The rest of the day day went by in a very easy mode. We were partying on Friday, so the whole morning was 'recovery' time.... (slept through the most of it)... After some home-made sandwiches, Tompa and I we went to a coffee house nearby and read books. I am nuts about science fiction, so if you guys can recommend a good one, that would be a wonderful name day present for me :)

Currently I am half way through Koji Suzuki´s LOOP. Gosh, what a captivating book. Metastatic cancer viruses, artificial lives, algebra, mysterious places and a motorcycle ;-) (For real, Mr. Suzuki integrated a few motorcycle rides to his story)... I luv it, luv it, luv it...

Anyway, towards the evening, it was time to get back to reality, I thought, but NO! Tompa decided to treat me like a princess (again). On the way home we picked up some chili nacho chips, chili nuts, wasabi-coated peas (do you guys have a recipe for any of these?), bears and veggies... Soon, there it was. A feast a la Mexicana :

MEXICAN AVOCADO SALSA WITH CORIANDER:

spice ladder: ***

prep time: 10 minutes
serves: 1 hungry couple

• 2 tomatoes
• 1 avocado
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1 small red onion
• 1 tbsp pickled jalapeno
• 1 green chili
• 1 bunch fresh cilantro/coriander leaves
• 1/2 tsp coriander powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1 tbsp tomato puree

Chop coarsely all the ingredients and put into a blender. How easy...


















Salsa was so great that we ate it all in no time. The original plan was to cuttle up in bed with a giant bowl of salad, nachos, beers and a movie. By the time we made it to bed (to eat !!!), half of salsa was gone. By the we started the movie, everything was gone...

...But before it was gone, I managed to sneak in a quick picture.


If it wasn't so hot ad we weren't so lazy, I´d probably make some baked koftas with this dip. But that never happened and we never regretted.