quick, easy salsa

I had a very good reason for making this, in fact, the very best reason, the only reason I ever really want to cook anything on busy weeks with no other gravitas-adding forces at play: I wanted it. Last week I had an intense craving for the kind of salsa you get in a jar, that we went through buckets of when I was in college, the kind of salsa that you’d get on a table at a Mexican restaurant that may or may not sell margaritas in cactus-stem glasses and I wondered why I didn’t have a go-to recipe for making it at home. Isn’t that, like, my purpose here? Isn’t that what I do here, week after week for nearly 15 years, share recipes I hope will become your go-tos as much as they’ve become mine?Where was my seasonless* salsa recipe? And so I fixed it. Once I’d gathered my ingredients, it took about 5 minutes, and it tasted better than anything I’d ever bought in a jar or scooped from restaurant bowls and we finished the whole thing so the next day I made more with Rachel, who helps me out sometimes, and she said “Isn’t this just a big bowl of vegetables?” and I said “It’s basically a salad,” and, we finished that too, although I suspect we would have, emboldened or not. I hope the simplicity and ease of this matches the simplicity and ease your week requires, and it ends in lots and lots of basically-salads, plus or minus a fewcrisp black bean tacos,guacamole, or and possibly aperfect margarita. * If you’ve got good fresh tomatoes where you are, don’t sleep on thisthree-ingredient summertime salsa, okay? 6 months ago:Morning Glory Breakfast Cake1 year ago:Layered Yogurt Flatbreads2 years ago:Braised Ginger Meatballs in Coconut Broth3 years ago:Fig NewtonsandCripsy Tofu Pad Thai4 years ago:Granola Bark5 years ago:Caramelized Brown Sugar Oranges with YogurtandPotato Pizza, Even Better6 years ago:Why You Should Always Toast Your Nuts (Please!)andObsessively Good Avocado-Cucumber Salad7 years ago:Dark Chocolate Coconut MacaroonsandBaked Eggs with Spinach and Mushrooms8 years ago:Spinach and Smashed Egg ToastandBee Sting Cake9 years ago:Over-the-Top Mushroom QuicheandBanana Bread Crepe Cake with Butterscotch10 years ago:Blackberry and Coconut Macaroon Tart11 years ago:Baked Kale ChipsandAlmond Macaroon Torte with Chocolate Frosting12 years ago:Artichoke-Olive CrostiniandChocolate Caramel Crackers13 years ago:Spring PanzanellaandLemon Yogurt Anything Cake14 years ago:Arborio Rice PuddingandGnocchi with a Grater