When someone throws away your much-depleted but not yet empty bottle of mild Mexican salsa and you’ve just made a (cheese) quesadilla that demands accompaniment, what would you do? I mined the fridge and came up with four possibilities: Thai sweet chili sauce, BBQ sauce, Heinz 57 or Ketchup. This was the closest I could come to a replacement for my favorite salsa. Which would you guess was the winner and why? I’ll tell after you guess.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Thai sweet chili sauce.
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It didn’t quite fill the bill. In the end I just ate the quesadilla without sauce.
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I thought that would have been the case.
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Spicy mango chutney
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Usually have it but I think Yolanda threw away all my sauces that were beyond the “use by” date. I myself don’t pay any attention to those dates and go looking and can’t find. Frustrating.
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Understandable
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Sweet chilli sauce
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I picked it first to try but it was too runny and sorta cancelled out the taste of the cheese. To be fair, they all did. Ketchup was the least repulsive.
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I don’t know, but I’d mix them together 😀
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Didn’t think of that! I have since managed to score some mild salsa..
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Like most others, sweet chili sauce!
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I love it on Thai food but it didn’t fill the bill on quesadillas. None were ideal but good old ketchup/catsup was the least revolting. I went to 3 stores trying to find my salsa casera and couldn’t find it. Ended up getting two little cans of off-brand that probably have habanera in them. Got home and found a new jar of tjhe brand I like standing front and center in a cabinet where I’d searched for it twice! I am getting scared about my tendency to overlook things in plain sight.
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That’s funny Judy!😂 I find myself preparing meals and the forgetting main ingredients lately, like, all the time, I’m better off staying out of the kitchen!
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Actually the same is probably true of me.
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Where are your pickled jalapenos?
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I am a coward when it comes to hot peppers!!!
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More for me…
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And you are so welcome to them. In return, you can trade me chocolate for them!!!
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Deal! So you don’t drink Mexican chocolate with chili? Is that more for me, too? Mole? Are you OK with that?
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All yours. Don’t like the chili chocolate or mole. I restrict my chocolate thrills to the sugary variety. They continue to let me live in Mexico in spite of this.
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Wow. One of my favorite treats was going to the Casa de Mole in TJ that and Carnitas Uruapan. Like I said, more for me… I can mole what am I bitching about? Hmmm….
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Was Carnitas Uruapan actually a restaurant in Uruapan or just a dish tasted in TJ?
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it was a restaurant opened by a family from Uruapan. It was really small; they cooked the carnitas in the yard in a big cauldron and the restaurant had only 8 or 10 tables. It was the best.
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The town is pretty cool, too.
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