This has definitely been a week of celebrating! The most fun was celebrating my friend, Melinda’s, birthday.
If you read this blog often enough, you know Melinda is my fellow foodie friend. As such, I feel like I should give a little shout out to her:
Melinda and I have known each other since we were youngin’s in college. We met at a find-a-roommate night: I needed a roommate because my freshman one ended up not working out and Melinda needed one cause she had just transferred. We bonded over her purple vans and ended up rooming together off and on through college and after we graduated.
What can I say, a good pair of shoes can change your life.
We’ve come a long way since we rocked the vans and ate ramen noodles in our dorm room. I think one of the reasons we’re still hanging out (besides the fact that we’re both awesome!) is that our interest in food has weirdly enough followed a similar path. Granted, Melinda is always a step or so ahead of me buuut…she’s a year older then me. So, you know, with age comes wisdom? Or something like that…
Anyway, so it goes without saying that to celebrate Melinda’s birthday, we cooked. Obviously!
Homemade veggy burgers, grilled veggies and potatoes and almond joy cake truffles. Yes, please! Oh yes, there was also dancing in the rain, some speeches, drinking and Melinda as grill master. All good things!
Of course, I’ve already made and posted most of what we ate which meant I need to incorporate a recipe that I hadn’t shared with you.
Introducing Blueberry salsa aka, our appetizer:
Blueberry Lime Salsa
from How Sweet Eats (aka, the queen of fruit salsas)
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 5 medium strawberries
- 1/4 red onion
- 1 teaspoon lime zest
- juice of two limes
- 1/3 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- 1 avocado, chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
put blueberries, strawberries, onion, lime zest, lime juice and cilantro in a food processor. Pulse 5-6 times for a chunky salsa or longer if you want it smoother. Pour into a bowl and fold in the chopped avocado. Season with salt and pepper.
Basically, this was just an excuse to feed my new lime addiction. It’s weird because I loath lemons and anything with lemon in it. But limes? Limes I can’t get enough of! I had a ton lying around because I’ve been drinking lime water like its going out of style (and possibly margaritas…)so obviously, blueberry lime salsa was just begging to be made.
Anyway, you will notice there aren’t any action shots with this salsa. It’s because someone who was in charge of the chips *cough Amelia cough* took their sweet time arriving. By the time the chips did arrive, we were so famished and weak from hunger that we bypassed the photo sesh and just dug right in.
And it was delicious! Totally worth the excruciatingly long wait for chips and it was the perfect light, summery appetizer!
Looks AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you! I sorta wish I had some leftover for lunch =)
🙂 I know what you mean, nothing better than food you can reminisce about.
got home from work on Friday and Megan had made this. We’re both OBSESSED. I highly recommend it served on a veggie quesadilla!
and hahaha that photo is called “mindamuffs-bday-collage”
you know…I think I have all the ingredients to make this again. I think I’m going to make some sort of avocado quesadilla with this for dinner. I’m glad you commented on this or I wouldn’t have thought of it!
PS. maybe lets not mention the second part of that comment to melinda…that may be wise…
i totally just read that comment…::Glare::
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