Mango-Pineapple Salsa

This is the easiest salsa ever. It goes well with grilled salmon tacos. It's also good for eating with chips. Or all by itself.






















Mango-Pineapple Salsa

Ingredients

1 large mango, seeded, peeled and cut into small cubes
1/2 of a ripe pineapple, peeled, cored, and cut into small cubes
2 red fresno chiles, seeded and diced
1 large jalapeno pepper, seeded and diced
juice of 1 lime
3 T. chopped fresh cilantro

Combine all the ingredients in a bowl.

Five Words About Wine

Mountain Spirit Winery Merlot Raspberry.



We are not big wine drinkers, but this winery is in Salida, Colorado and every summer we go there and buy a case of this wine. They also have a raspberry dessert wine that is soooooo decadent. They have a tasting room. It's well worth the trip.

Welcome to Bitchen Swill

Welcome to Bitchen Swill. It's a spin-off blog from my other blog, Journey to Badwater. This one will have my recipes for running food.

I'll be making changes to make this blog look better in the near future, so bear with me, I have the minor detail of a 48 hour race coming up. After that I'll have plenty of time for blogging as my body recovers.

I'm going to post my soup recipe from the recent running club Holiday Lights Run & potluck. I'll add more recipes later.

Here are a few upcoming recipes, so stop back in January.

veggie quesadillas
tomato salsa
mango pineapple salsa
tortilla soup
buffalo chili

Happy New Year!

Tom Kha Gai (Chicken Coconut Soup)

A cold day calls for a soup recipe. Here's one to get you started.

Here's the recipe for the soup, it's adapted from a Sunset Magazine recipe, December 2008.












Tom Kha Gai (Thai Chicken Coconut Soup)

Ingredients
1 1/2 pounds of cooked chicken, diced into small cubes
1 diced onion
1 pound of sliced mushrooms
12 slices of fresh ginger (approx. quarter-sized thickness)
2 T. canola oil
1 can of regular coconut milk
1 can of lite coconut milk
1 1/2 quarts of low sodium chicken broth
1 can of bamboo shoots, drained
juice of 2-3 large limes
3 T. fish sauce
2 T. Thai chili paste
1 T. sugar
2 T. chopped lemongrass
fresh basil leaves
fresh cilantro leaves

Saute ginger, onion & mushrooms in a small amt. of canola oil until onions are soft and begin to caramelize. Add mixture to 5 qt. crockpot along with broth, coconut milk, cooked chicken, and bamboo shoots. Stir well until coconut milk dissolves. Add fish sauce, chili paste, sugar, lemongrass, and lime juice. Cook in crockpot on medium heat for 4-6 hours. Add chopped basil and cilantro to taste before serving. Makes about 4 quarts.

You can also cook this in a regular pot on the stove and it takes less time, bring to a boil and then turn down the heat and simmer for at least 30 minutes. It 's better to assemble it early and cook it slowly, it gives the flavors more of a chance to develop.