{"id":12652,"date":"2013-06-20T05:09:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T12:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/?p=12652"},"modified":"2022-08-16T13:44:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:44:18","slug":"10-skinny-dips-salsas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/10-skinny-dips-salsas\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Skinny Dips & Salsas"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dips and salsas are instant party food and summer favorites – they are a breeze to make and can usually be prepared ahead of time which guarantees you more time to enjoy your guests and share in the fun.<\/p>\n
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Sure crowd pleasers, kids and adults are always happy to scoop and nibble and they’re the perfect solution to keeping ravenous appetites at bay while aromas from whatever is on the grill hint at what’s to come.<\/p>\n
Jump to Recipe<\/a><\/p>\n Each of the delectable dips featured here are more nutritious and lower in fat than traditional cheesy or heavy on the mayo\/sour cream dips and the salsas highlight vibrant, fresh produce of the season – why settle for heavily salted store bought salsas when it only takes a few minutes to make your own! Summer is in full swing when stone fruit begins arriving in the markets and the Los Angeles warehouse of Melissa’s Produce who throws me a peach now and then \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n About this time last year I was on an whirlwind, two day, three-farm\u00a0\u00a0growers tour<\/a>\u00a0with Melissa’s Produce<\/a>\u00a0, road-tripping to the Salad Bowl of America, Central Valley, CA. I’ll never forget the miles and miles of orchards stretching before us we navigated to Masumoto Family Farms for the second harvest for Adopt A Tree owners. We gathered around David Mas Masumoto, enthralled by his evocative stories and his spirited voice lifting us up in words of poetry. Farmers for a day, excited to get to pickin’ some peaches, we beamed from ear to ear as we bowed down to scoop up fallen orbs of fragrant golden peaches and crimson nectarines, marveling that nature bestowed a gentle breeze that softened searing heat.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n David Mas Masumoto, passionate organic farmer, and the author of seven books including:\u00a0Heirlooms,\u00a0Letters to the Valley,\u00a0Four Seasons in Five Senses \u2013 Things Worth Savoring, Four Seasons in Five Senses,\u00a0Harvest Son, Epitaph for a Peach, and Wisdom of the Last Farmer<\/em>, now adds cookbook author to his legacy. More than a cookbook, Marion Nestle describes writing, photography, essays and topics of\u00a0The Perfect Peach <\/em><\/strong> in one word – luscious – “The Masumoto family has produced a glorious paean to the fruit they raise\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n