Recipe #64 - Lime Cilantro Salad Dressing

It's summertime, and we usually lean toward recipes for cool things and salad. We concocted this dressing to have with some homemade Mexican food, but it's good any time.

This is an easy and refreshing dressing for a green salad. You could also use it for inclusion in a tostada creation.

Makes about a cup and a half of dressing.

1.5 cups fresh cilantro leaves
Juice of one lime
1 cup low fat sour cream
3 Tbsp. low fat milk
Salt & pepper to taste

Put all ingredients in a small blender or processor and buzz until well blended. Scrape the sides as needed to ensure all the cilantro gets evenly buzzed into the dressing. Add a little more milk if it's too thick.

Store in an airtight jar in the refrigerator.

Recipe #63 - Peach Salsa

We had a 4th of July BBQ with our next-door neighbors, and strived for something a bit different. We grilled some fresh salmon and served it with a little goat cheese and this peach salsa. It was interesting, with the mix of sweet/spicy, tart/earthy, and smoky grilled fish.

Makes a couple of cups of salsa.

5 fresh ripe peaches
1 red onion, peeled and finely diced
1 Tbsp. olive oil
1/2 red bell pepper, finely diced
2 fresh jalapeno peppers, seeds and pith removed, finely diced
Juice of one fresh lime
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. chipotle Tabasco sauce

Make sure the peaches are fully ripe. Slip each peach into boiling water for about 10 seconds, which will allow you to slip the peels off by hand much easier. Dice the peach flesh and place in a large mixing bowl.

Saute the diced onion in the olive oil until cooked through but not browned. Add to diced peaches.

Add the diced bell pepper, jalapenos, lime juice, salt and Tabasco sauce and mix the salsa gently but completely.

Season to taste with additional salt, pepper and/or Tabasco and store in a bowl covered with plastic wrap in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

Check out "Twins in the Kitchen" for More Great Recipes and Stuff

For more recipes and ideas, check out the site that Mark and Ace DuMond are doing with a bunch of family and friends. The URL is http://twinsinthekitchen.blogspot.com, or you can just click here to check it out.

The site was created as a result of an idea that came about at a mini-reunion in western Idaho in early October. (Read about it here.) So far, friends and family from as far away as Alaska and England have contributed recipes to the blog. A few of the recipes are repeats of those which appear here, and vice versa.

Check it out ... and if you have any recipes you'd like to share on the site, email them to Mark DuMond (cafedumond@comcast.net).