"Diego's Tomato-Cotija Cheese Salad"

With a plate of home-grown tomatoes sliced over shredded ice-berg lettuce, and sprinkled with shredded cotija (ko-tee'-huh) cheese, chopped cilantro, and drizzled with a touch of ranch dressing, and a big ol' glass of iced tea, and you can enjoy any summer day, no matter the temperature outside.

I found the cotija cheese in a mexican grocery in Pasco, WA. It's a new one near the Blue bridge and very clean! They have tons of this cheese I had never heard of so I asked what it was and how to use it in Mexican dishes. Authentic mexican food calls for this rather than cheddar. If you can't find cotija, try guyere, or if nothing else, cheddar. Crumbled Blue cheese would work too, but I found the cotija - perfect.

Very refreshing!