American cooks flirted with peach salsa and corn salsa, while supermarket salsa evolved into a thick, sweet mix.
From peach salsa to solar power to tips on inspiring changes, Morrison emphasized the company's mission at the Net Impact Conference, which brings leaders in the business, government, non-profit and academic worlds to promote social and environmental causes.
With donated ingredients and jars ("They strung together a whole pro bono supply chain," Morrison said), Campbell's employees volunteered their time to make peach salsa out of them, put the salsa in jars and labeled the products.
Of course, there's also fresh juice, cayenne lemonade, and a pH tonic (apple-cider vinegar, lemon, honey, and chlorella, a kind of algae), and the breakfast tacos nod admiringly to Santa Monica, with soft scrambled eggs, avocado, peach salsa, and house-made hot sauce.
The three little variations follow lyrically from one to another, with no major shift in sensibility or culture: well-caramelized scallops atop a nicely seasoned potato-leek purée sit next to a scallop shell holding scallop crudo and fennel, which in turn, is neighbor to almond-crusted, sautéed scallops with peach salsa.
SLOW-GRILLED CHICKEN WITH LEMON Time: 45 to 60 minutes 1 chicken, cut into 8 or 10 pieces Juice of a lemon Salt and pepper Chipotle peach salsa, optional (see recipe). 1. Start a charcoal, wood or gas fire in a grill big enough to bank coals to one side once they get hot.
Serve, if you like, with chipotle-peach salsa.
CHIPOTLE-PEACH SALSA Time: 15 minutes 2 cups peaches in 1/4-inch dice 1/2 cup red bell pepper, stemmed, seeded and cut into 1/4-inch dice 1 chili in adobo, puréed or minced (or one dried chipotle, soaked until soft and puréed or minced) 2 tablespoons lime juice 1/4 cup minced cilantro 1 tablespoon sugar.
I love the peach and corn salsa here, which I have been making more than weekly since the Fourth of July and serving with everything from fish to fowl.
Hindinger also offers more than a dozen preserves, jellies and fruit butters; several kinds of salsa; salad dressings and barbecue sauces; preserved peaches; marinated mushrooms; peppers; beans; even pickled beef balls ($5 to $7 for most 20-ounce jars).
Modifications included additional fruits, vegetables, and soy products (eg., avocado, banana, fresh peaches, mangoes or papayas, beets, cauliflower, celery, turnips, radishes, rhubarb, salsa, soy burgers, soy milk, and, tofu).
