One of my favorite things about summer is making salsa. Pico de gallo, tomatillo, black bean, watermelon (I promise it’s amazing!), and mango salsas just to name a few. Many times in my life I have made a salsa bar for dinner where fresh salsas and chips were all that were eaten. And to this day, those were some of my favorite meals. So, to get you started on your own summery salsa kick, I whipped up this Mango Jalapeno Salsa.
If there is one thing that screams Hawaii to me (other than the sun, the beach, the ocean, the da kine Aloha spirit…), it’s plate lunch. Give me a plate lunch and I will be sooooo happy! If I don’t order meat jun, I will order chicken katsu. Or if I’m feeling crazy, I’ll get them both. Because seriously, you’re going to go swim off all these calories anyway, right? So let me take you to Hawaii with this homemade classic chicken katsu recipe.
So I had a conundrum the other day. I was craving something chocolatey, but I also had an abundance of rhubarb to use. At first I thought I’d make rhubarb chocolate chip cookies, but that didn’t seem chocolatey enough. Then I thought of a cake, but what would I do with an entire cake? (other than eat it). But brownies – brownies seemed just perfect. So I whipped up these Rhubarb Chocolate Brownies and solved my conundrum.