recipe: black bean and corn salsa

welcome july!!!! phew here already?
okay yes i know i said i was going to give you the secret ingredient for the cookies. tomorrow! oh and yes for all of you that requested the pan de vonos recipe...i'm trying to make my mom stop long enough to sit down and write it down. she promises to write it down before she heads home... but for now here's my new favorite salsa and its just PERFECT for bringing to a BBQ for uh i oh i don't know, maybe this 4th of july weekend? it's so easy and fool proof.
there's something about having your kitchen savvy mother here to really jump start that feeling of "hey, i'm not that bad at cooking...look!" so here you go, the perfect salsa to bring to your neighborhood BBQ this forth of july:

black bean and corn salsa
what you will need:
1 can of corn
2 cans of black beans
2 large tomatoes
1 avocado
1 to 2 jalepeno pepper
1 red or white onion
a small bundle of cilantro
2 tablespoons of olive oil
1 tablespoon of redwine vinegar
3 to 4 tablespoons of lemon juice
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp of pepper.

combine in a small bowl your olive oil, red wine vinegar, lemon juice, salt and pepper. whisk. set aside.

drain your corn and black beans. rinse your black beans.
chop up your tomatoes, onion, avocado, cilantro and jalepeno.
combine in a large bowl corn, black beans, tomatoes, onion, avocado, cilantro, and jalepeno.

pour over your ingredients your olive oil mixture, and stir in.

enjoy with chips, or as a side dish.
mmmmm.
and yes my mom was impressed.


thank you to my twilight obsessed neighbor for the recipe, and thank you to my twilight obsessed neighbor for taking me along for our FIRST EVER midnight showing of a movie in our little middle of nowhere town. it was grand. good times people good times.
i love summer.
and go team jacob.
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