Pico de Gallo

WITH the arrival of Spring comes fresh vegetables. Dad keeps an eye out for when the ingredients for Pico all look appetizing simultaneously at the market.

The ingredients are simple, Roma tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, green onions, fresh garlic, cilantro, lemon juice, sugar, and salt. Everything except the lemon juice, salt, and sugar is diced and combined in a bowl. Then Dad makes lemonade combining lemon juice and sugar and pours it over the combined produce. He adds some table salt and lets it sit in the fridge for a few hours so the the salt and sugar can do its work. Then he pulls it out and tastes it adding more salt and or sugar as necessary. 

You will never get this out of a jar.