Here’s another post confessing to my inadequacies! I used an excellent recipe for cranberry salsa, that’s a delicious combination of sweet and tart that goes perfectly with tortilla chips. Serve it with cream cheese or without — it’s still delicious.

I found the recipe here: Fresh Cranberry Salsa Recipe – Cooking With Karli. Easy enough. I used a blender to chop up all the cranberries, as called for in the recipe. CRAP ALERT: I decided to use the blender to chop up all the other ingredients, instead of chopping them by hand as the recipe called for.

I got a big gloppy mess that definitely didn’t chop the ingredients well. Chunks in a salsa are okay; big strings of onion and large pieces of jalapeno are not okay.

But I made it work. It was messier than if I’d followed the recipe’s directions, but I chopped, chopped, chopped the whole big glob. Next time, I’ll use a food processor or chop by hand. Sometimes, I just can’t improve on a recipe!