Sink-o-duh-my-o

...or, Cinqo de Mayo.  It's been almost 2 whole month since St Patty's day so it's time for another Alcoholiday.  One with better food and beer that isn't green.  And strangely enough, no one pretends to be Mexican on Cinqo de Mayo. Go figure.
   In celebration of the Battle of Puebla the R&R committee at work decided to host a salsa contest.  Naturally, I had to participate.  I took in two submissions.  Submission number one was my basic blender salsa.  Put tomatoes, onion, anehiem chiles, cilantro, and parsley in the blender, and blend the shit out of it.  Pour into a bowl and season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and hot sauce or lime juice if you like it.  Easy peasy rice and cheesy. It was alright, nothing to write home about, it's just not tomato season.
   My second submission however kicked MAJOR ass.  Mango. Pineapple. Habenero. Salsa.  It was a total shot in the dark but holy hell was it goooood.

Beautiful...it's so...beautiful

And easy!  All you need is

• 4 Mangoes, chopped
• 1 pineapple, chopped
• 1 red onion, diced
• 1 or 2 (depending on the size) red bell peppers, diced
• a small handful each of parsley and cilantro (I snip it right off the bunch with clean kitchen shears)
• 6 habenero peppers, seeded and minced super fine

(a note about the cilantro and parsley, you can use all one or the other, depending on your tastes)

Stir and omnomnom

   But one cannot live on salsa alone.  The other day I mentioned on my personal blog that I picked up some cream cheese and that I had a tasty, tasty plan for it.  Well I also bought these...

And with those, I made these...

  POPPERS!   And making these totally made me feel like this.