Easy Restaurant-Style Salsa

With just a few simple ingredients and a few whirls in a blender or food processor, you've got yourself  a batch of tasty & easy restaurant-style salsa.

I am a total sucker for chips and salsa.  Of all kinds.  Plain ol' regular salsa, fresh pico de gallo (or simply 'pico,' as we call it), fruit salsas like peach-pineapple or mango, and even blueberry salsa.  Yes, blueberry salsa.

In fact, eating chips and salsa is my total downfall when eating out at a Mexican restaurant.  I can easily steer myself to the healthier menu options ... but, dang if those bowls of chips and salsa don't crush my willpower spirit every time.  Oh well, there are worse things in life.

So, being such a lover of salsa, this easy restaurant-style salsa recipe of my sister-in-law's quickly became one of my go-to recipes.

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Leprechaun Shakes {& Trapping a Leprechaun!}

It may be hard to trap a leprechaun, but it's easy to whip up Leprechaun Shakes!  Made with vanilla ice cream and lemon-lime soda, enjoy these tasty little shakes for one super easy St. Patrick's Day treat.

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It's that time of year!  Yes, the time of year when rascally little leprechauns make their appearances in all the craziest of places.  And last year ... we had one turn up in my 1st grade classroom!  Can you believe it?

He turned over the chairs in our classroom.  Threw little shamrocks all over everything.  Left us silly notes on the whiteboard.  Dropped his hat one day ... and his sock the next.  He even tried to steal our pot of gold, leaving our carpet littered with little gold pieces ... how dare he.

So, of course, my students decided we needed to try to trap him - I mean, he did try to take our gold and all.  And here's how we decided to do it.

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