Crostini with Mango Salsa

Hello! It seems that in the past little while I have taken the time to blog only when it is a way of procrastinating. Clean my room or write a post? Go for a run or write a post? Work on my research study or write a post? I am living the latter right now because talking about salsa and desserts (or lack thereof) is way more fun than reading approximately the five hundredth article on organizational trust, so here we are!!

First things first, I want to tell you just HOW GOOD making your own salsa is! I recently had a bunch of fruits and vegetables that needed to be eaten up so I got chopping and made my very own mango salsa. Yum yum yum!

Side note: Forgive me for the vagueness of these ingredient measurements, I made this roughly a month ago.

Crostini with Mango Salsa & Goat Cheese

Ingredients:
Salsa:
✿ 2 tomatoes, chopped
✿ 1 mango, chopped
✿ 1 sweet potato, chopped and roasted
✿ ½ red onion, chopped
✿ 1 red pepper, chopped
✿ 1 cup of cilantro, chopped
✿ a couple squeezes of lime juice

Crostini:
✿ Baguette
✿ Goat cheese, softened
✿ Olive Oil
✿ Avocado, sliced

Directions:
1. Before anything else, heat the oven to 375ºF to roast the sweet potato. Now you don't need to add sweet potato to this salsa, but I put sweet potatoes in almost everything!

2. If you opt in to adding sweet potatoes, chop them up, mix them with some olive oil and them plop them in the oven on a baking sheet. Take them out once they get soft and golden (about 25-30 minutes).

3. Next, chop up all the fruits and veggies and mix them together with the lime juice to taste. Add a bit of salt and pepper if you're feeling it needs a little something something.

4. This is a pivotal point in this recipe, you can either dig into the salsa with a spoon OR slice the baguette, spread some goat cheese onto the pieces, drizzles said pieces with olive oil, and bake in the oven for a couple of minutes till the edge are just crispy (5-10 minutes). 

5. Then, you can slice up some avocado, add it to the crostini that just came out of the oven, and then top with your delicious mango salsa! VOILA!

Okay, now I guess that was the good news first, now I have a confession to make...

I am not eating desserts for 50 days #fiftydaysofgrey (inspired by this blog). You heard right. CRAZY, I know. 50 days without desserts is a lot of days and especially for me (a.k.a. the cookie monster incarnate). BUT I think it will be good to take a step back and see all the sugar I eat. Since starting on June 1st, it has been insane to see how many times I am confronted with sweets. There are desserts popping up EVERYWHERE and I'm like helllllo where were these when I could actually eat them????

Along with me, my mom, my sister and my cousin aren't eating desserts either which makes it more fun because we can text each other live updates about how we aren't indulging.
Conversations go something like this:
"Look at this double chocolate oreo cheesecake I DIDN'T eat today *includes pictures of cake*"
"Oh yeah, well I didn't eat a four layer brownie/cookie salted caramel thingy at work" and so on...

What I won't look like for fifty days :'(

It was so bad the other day that I stopped in at a bakery just to look. How sad is that? Low point in my life, I know. Okay maybe I'm being a bit dramatic, it's actually kind of nice to eat healthier and who knows maybe I'll actually learn something from doing this. Maybe.

I'll keep you posted!!

xox
G