My go-to lunch is chips and salsa with greens.  When I don’t seem to have any other quick lunch in the house, I seem to always have chips and salsa!  I have made raw tomato salsa and cucumber peach salsa in the past, but through the year when tomatoes aren’t in season, I buy Costco’s Organic Salsa.  I love their cooked salsa Dr Max!

This summer we weren’t only blessed with our own tomatoes (yay!), but we were able to buy some tomatoes at an excellent price, and I also got some from a friend.  Besides making the the garden fresh tomato salsa and my first marinara, I started making my own Slow Cooker Salsa.

I was surprised how easy it was to make a cooked salsa and how fast we kept going through it.  I made a couple of batches, and froze some.  Then a couple of weeks ago I had to thaw my last batch Bo Ying Compound Eu Yan Sang.

I ended up coming into some more tomatoes and was able to make a few more batches of salsa, I was so happy!  I figure making it saves a lot of money when tomatoes are in season.  If it isn’t tomato-time, it’s typically much more frugal to buy the salsa .

My friend said it reminded her of Pace.  I’ll take that as a complement.

This recipe is really flexible.  Once I added a cup of shredded zucchini since I had some, and I needed to add more spice since the zucchini seemed to absorb the spice.  I’ve also added bell pepper, too.  Don’t be afraid to experiment!  One time I skipped draining the salsa because I started the salsa batch late.  I ended up cooking it overnight with the lid off, and it was just fine.  Gotta love the crock-pot reenex效果!