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- Hey, I'm Jamie Deen,
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and back here in mama's kitchen
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we're at the tail end of summer,
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but it doesn't matter what season it is
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for a fresh salsa, it's so good.
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Today I'm making soap salsa.
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I mean, black bean and corn salsa.
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All I can smell is soap.
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It's got cilantro in it,
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and Theresa loves cilantro so I'm using it,
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and I just tore the cilantro with my hands
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before we got started.
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And it smells like I'm doing a soap commercial here.
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You know some people taste soap for cilantro,
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and other people don't?
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So I'm one of the people
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that kind of stay away from that,
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but I love the texture and the color.
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So you can use an Italian Parsley,
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or you can use an American parsley,
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and that gives you the color
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and the texture in your salsa
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without the horrible, despicable flavor of cilantro.
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Okay, we're gonna start with
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a couple of things here, super easy.
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I've got some frozen corn that we've thawed.
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And we've got two cans of black beans.
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Now we've drained these
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'cause that juice is beautiful,
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and there is a place for it,
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but it's not in my salsa bowl.
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I make a lot of different salsas.
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Yeah, I know I'm really bad
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about telling you what I'm making,
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and I tell you how you could change it,
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I'm not gonna do that today.
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Black beans and corn.
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We've got some tomatoes here,
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and I'm afraid, let's see, we'll go with our onions first.
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This is enough onions for everybody.
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So I'm gonna use just a tiny bit of those.
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I'm gonna drain these tomatoes off today
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because I have a different liquid going in here.
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Now these red tomatoes,
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we have really chopped
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and chopped them up fine.
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That's enough for me.
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Now while I've got my tomatoes there
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I'm gonna salt those,
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and I'm gonna pepper these a little bit too.
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Now what makes this salsa different and unique,
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we're gonna add a tablespoon
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Now for me really the star of any,
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any salsa, I love, love, love avocados so much.
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So I have two avocados here
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that I'm just gonna split up.
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There's a couple of different ways
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that you could do avocados.
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If you want to, if you're really doing something,
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you could take the tip of your knife,
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and you can slice this way.
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You push it out, you get these little wedges
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that you can lay across your dish if you'd like.
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Or you can go up and down, criss cross.
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And then when you pop it out,
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you can get some cubes.
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and I'm really just gonna mash everything up
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rather than fooling with any of that.
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I just kind of squeeze the avocado down in.
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I'm gonna mash it up anyway.
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Be careful doing that.
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You should not use a knife to remove an avocado pit.
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Now the thing about it is
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as much as I love avocados,
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when they hit the air they have a tendency to turn
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a not fantastic shade of tan.
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Hold on one second y'all.
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Didn't have a towel close by.
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So as soon as our avocado is exposed to air
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it's gonna begin to brown.
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Don't even try to crack open an avocado,
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or make any salsa whatsoever without some lime juice around.
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So I've got some fresh lime juice
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that we're gonna add to that.
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And that's really it.
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Now this is the part, while I'm stir it
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I can tell you everything else
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wonderful you can do with this salsa.
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Pineapple salsa I love.
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Put your jalapeno peppers in here.
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You can put bell peppers,
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There is no rules for salsa.
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Anything that you like
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that you wanna eat you can put it in here.
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And speaking of things that I love to eat,
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and ruin the whole thing with a giant dash of soap.
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No, I'm gonna put my cilantro on top.
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I'm gonna push it around a little bit,
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but you see how pretty that is?
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There's lots of different ways
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that you could serve this too.
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If you really wanna take your time,
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which I did not, when you do your avocado,
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save your little cup.
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I do this with avocado chicken salad sometimes.
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I'll make chicken salad,
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and I'll put avocado chunks in it.
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And then you can serve it
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in this cute little boat right here.
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And, of course, the easiest idea,
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look how dirty my cutting board is,
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just keep you a bag of chips around.
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Turn this into an omelet.
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No rules salsa, that's what this is.
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I'm soap, that's good soap,
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we'll see you around mom's soap next time.
