salsas
tried one of the pace salsas – tequila lime, it’s yellow-green in color. the limeyness and saltiness is kind of overpowering…which is surprising i thought i would like that. it’s just too much with the limey though.
some of its ingredients list: yellow tomatoes, fresh jalapeno peppers, green chili peppers, lime juice, onions, tomatillos, tequila, cilantro.
finished the pace pico de gallo salsa, it was okay…nothing really fascinating about it. prefer it to the tequila lime one.
trying the triple pepper salsa right now…a supposedly hot salsa. it leaves the mouth with a minor burn, but i wouldn’t really consider it to be hot. the three peppers are serrano, green chilis, and guajillo. really the salsa just tastes like a salsa with heavy cayenne pepper and chili powder.
salsa verde….still pretty unimpressed. maybe it’s because jarred salsa just doesn’t compare to fresh salsa…
2013:
today i tried two of the new tostitos cantina products; they were the roasted garlic salsa and the cantina traditional chips. of course, i was expecting something special…the chips tasted just like doritos minus the cheese flavor. the texture and everything was exactly like doritos. since frito lay makes both brands i wouldn’t be surprised if they actually were doritos prior to being dusted with cheese powder (or however that process works). i found these to be a step down from the normal white colored tostitos (the cantina traditional chips are yellow in color). i wouldn’t buy these again…there’s lots of better chip selections out there.
the roasted garlic salsa tasted just like normal tostitos salsa but with added garlic flavor. you can actually see the chunks of garlic in the salsa. ultimately, nothing special about this salsa either it’s right on par with normal tostitos salsa.
update 1/28/2013:
i have now had the cantina thin and crispy tortilla chips and the cantina chipotle restaurant style salsa. the chipotle salsa is runnier/less-thick like a restaurant salsa. the taste of the salsa is an overpowering punch in the face of chipotle. not super hot but really smoky flavored. i should have guessed it wouldn’t be subtle at all. overall, it’s tolerable but i would never buy it again. the chips however were not bad…i’d say they’re on par with what you get free from moe’s. i’d get the chips again. also i was dismayed when looking at the salsa’s nutritional information on how little nutritional value it had. i guess i should stop messing around with jarred salsas and just get fresh salsa.
2015:
cigar city salsa (mild) – costs about twice as much as other salsas. i liked the texture but the taste not so much. no surprise that it has a smoky flavor but what was surprising was that there was an extremely off-putting tangy flavor to this salsa. i would not get it again.