Restaurant Style Salsa & A Giveaway for The Pioneer Woman’s NEW Cookbook
Today is an exciting day! Ree’s (The Pioneer Woman) NEW cookbook comes out today! I am so excited for Ree and her latest book, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier. Ree sent us an advanced copy and we have been loving and drooling over every page. And I am not joking about the drooling part, Caleb has drooled on several pages of the book. I think he is ready for solid food, well at least Ree’s cooking:) To celebrate The Pioneer Woman’s new book we made her Restaurant Style Salsa. We are huge chips and salsa fans and Ree’s salsa is the real deal.
What is the best part of going out to a Mexican restaurant? The chips and salsa, right? I always fill up on chips and salsa and have a hard time eating my meal. You think I would learn, but it happens every time. The truth is, I really don’t care, because I LOVE chips and salsa! Ree’s Restaurant Style Salsa tastes just like the kind of salsa you get at a Mexican restaurant, but better. It is absolutely perfect! The salsa is smooth, fresh, has the perfect amount of cilantro and lime, and a nice kick at the end.
The recipe is super easy to make. You blend everything together in a blender or food processor. We used our Blendtec blender and it filled it to the top, so make sure you use a large blender or food processor. I thought we were going to have way too much salsa, but it didn’t last long. It is addicting! I am so glad we don’t have to go out to a Mexican restaurant to get our salsa fix anymore. We will save money and I can eat in my stretchy pants-trust me, you will need them after eating an entire bag of chips and bowl of salsa. 
You can find Ree’s Restaurant Style Salsa recipe in The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier, along with lots and lots of other delicious recipes. We can’t wait to cook and bake our way through the book. And in Ree fashion, every recipe includes gorgeous step-by-step photos! The book is a complete gem from cover to cover. Congratulations Ree on your new book!
The giveaway is now CLOSED! The three winners are: Belinda (#131), Alicia @ The Reluctant Cook (#344), and Georgia @ The Comfort of Cooking (#592). Thanks to everyone who entered!
And now for the giveaway! We are giving away THREE signed copies of The Pioneer Cooks: Food From My Frontier. Yes, Ree will sign the books for three of our lucky readers! Yahoo! Isn’t Ree the best?
To enter to win a signed copy of Ree’s new book, Food From My Frontier, leave a comment on this post telling us if you like your salsa mild, medium, or hot! It is that simple!
The giveaway is open until Friday, March 16th at 11:59 p.m. MST. The giveaway is only open to U.S. residents. Be sure a valid email address is included with your comment(s). Winners will be chosen randomly and announced on this post. We will email the winners and if the winners doesn’t respond in 48 hours, a new winner will be chosen. Good luck!
A few of my food blogging friends are also celebrating Ree’s new book, make sure you check out their posts:
- Picky Palate - Malted Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies
- What’s Gaby Cooking - Knock you Naked Brownies
- Kevin and Amanda - Pasta with Pesto Cream Sauce
- I am Baker - Coffee Cream Cake
- Bev Cooks - Chicken Tortilla Soup
- She Wears Many Hats - Iced Coffee
- Food For My Family - Food from My Frontier: A Giveaway
Ree is kindly donating the books for this giveaway, but our opinions are our own! We love Ree!
Restaurant Style Salsa
Yield: Serves 12
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Homemade restaurant style salsa that will MAKE you eat an entire bag of chips. It's that good!
Ingredients:
1 can (28 Ounce) whole tomatoes with juice
2 cans (10 Ounce) Rotel (diced tomatoes And green chilies)
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 clove garlic, minced
1 whole jalapeño, quartered And sliced thin
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 cup fresh cilantro (more To taste)
1/2 whole lime, juicedDirections:
1. In a large food processor or blender, combine whole tomatoes, Rotel tomatoes, onion, jalapeno, garlic, sugar, salt, cumin, lime juice, and cilantro. Pulse until you get the salsa to the consistency you'd like. Taste and adjust seasonings, if necessary.
2. Refrigerate salsa for at least an hour. Serve with tortilla chips.
Recipe from The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier by Ree Drummond
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With a bit of kick. I need to able to enjoy it but not burn my mouth with the spiciness. Right now am enjoying the kick chipotle but any chile will do, the salsa just needs to be good!
I’m a mild leaning toward a medium – known to mix the two. This recipe sounds great!
Medium.
As long as it has plenty of onion and cilantro, I will eat it medium or hot.
Medium! Just the right amount of kick!
I like mine medium, a little heat but not over powering
I love mild salsa.
I like my salsa on the mild side…
I like my salsa hot!
I like my salsa Medium
Medium! Spicy but not too spicy.
I love medium salsa!! And I LOVE the pioneer woman!!
Medium, unless it’s fruity, then mild
I like mild salsa.
I like it mild! I am a wimp..
I’m a medium salsa girl and I’ve made my share of this recipe! It’s so fast and easy!
I take my salsa in any heat level…I’m happy as long as I have an endless supply!
I love homemade salsa! I like it medium! Enough to make my tounge tingle, but not so hot it makes my nose run:)
O I love some “blow me out of the water” spicy, hot salsa! Sometimes I mix it with queso when we go to Tex-Mex restaurants! Sooooo good!
Medium in most cases. Sometimes I mix a little hot in with it!
I like my salsa hot. My roommate is from Mexico and he makes sure we’re never short on super-hot salsa.
Medium, lots of cilantro, and if i run out of chips, a spoon will do.
I like things as spicy as I can stand so it’s hot salsa for me!!
I like it medium to hot. My dad grew ghost chili’s this summer, and I have a sauce that I add a drop or two to this recipe. I LOVE this salsa recipe and make it all summer long and occasionally even in the winter. You can also cut it in half pretty easily (just buy smaller cans), and then use the other half of the jalepeno in dinner
Mild, with a “mild” kick.
I prefer it with a subtle kick.
medium to hot! Love chips and salsa!!
I like my salsa medium!! A little bit of kick, but not makes-you-wanna-cry hot. Perfection with some Tostitos Scoops.
Medium!
love, love, love my tex-mex … and love my salsa medium to hot!!
I would love the hot salsa! But we make it medium as well for kiddos!
Great Giveaway! Thank you for hosting!
Loved her first book…and I like my salsa mild to medium. Looking forward to her latest book.
I actually love it at all heats. I like spicy sometimes, but sometimes I am in the mood for mild!
I used to only be able to handle mild, but I am working on increasing my heat palate and now am up to medium….yum salsa!
Hot, medium, green, red, just bring on the salsa!
That does sound good and I would probably like it as it doesnt have a lot of onion & it’s smooth, no chunks of veggies – yes I’m picky….
I would like my salsa medium….
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Medium! I love Ree’s salsa.
mild for me!
medium, please!
Mild or Medium is best for me!