Recipes: From Tom Spellman

Sweet Lemon Salsa and Marinade

• 4 medium or 8 to 10 Roma Tomatoes
• 1 Red Onion
• 4 to 6 Serano or 3 to 4 Jalepeano Peppers
• Garlic cloves or Garlic powder
• 1 bunch Green Onions
• 1 bunch Cilentro
• 2 or 3 Sweet Lemons or Meyer Lemons
• 8 to 10 Variegated Fish Peppers as garnish
• Salt and Pepper

 

Chop or process Tomatoes, Red Onion, 1/2 Green Onions, Serano or Jalepeano peppers and 1/2 Cilentro.

 

For salsa: chop to 1/8" to 1/4" chunks for marinade process almost to a puree. Squeeze and strain seeds of Lemons and add. Add Garlic, Salt and Pepper to taste.

 

To serve as a dipping salsa: chill and serve in a large low bowel and add more Cilentro, Green Onion and Fish peppers as garnish. The Fish Peppers are optional, but for the Holidays they look like little Christmas lights floating in salsa.

• 1 pluot
• 2 plums
• tablespoon of cherry juice
• 1 oz. of light rum
• 1 oz. of dark rum
• 3/4 oz. of 151 rum
• crushed ice

 

In a blender, add pitted pluot and plums, cherry juice, rum and ice.
Blend thoroughly. Serves four.

Bedtime Sapote Drink For Sleep

• 1 White Sapote fruit (Discard seeds: they are poison!)
• about 6 oz of cold or warm milk (your choice!)
• Orange Juice
• Egg Nog or Ice Cubes.
• Some may consider adding something a little stronger as a kicker

 

In the blender, mix fruit and liquid to desired texture.

 

Drink one hour before bedtime as a sleep aid.

 

The sapote fruit has been used for centuries as a sleep aid by the Nahuatl Indians of Mexico and Central America. And let me tell you from personal experience -- it works...