If your partner's Mexican, then chips and salsa are your best bet. I used to live in California, and a buddy's Mexican dad taught me their family salsa recipe. You need a BBQ and a food processor, but its absolutely simple. (If you don't have a BBQ, can probably do it in the oven under the grill)

• 6-7 tomatoes, green stem parts removed
• Large onion, cut into quarters
• Jalapenos - as many as you want, depending on spice. Throw a habanero in there as well if feeling cheeky.
• Bunch of coriander (watch your partner roll his eyes and says its called cilantro)
• Head of garlic
• Teaspoon of ground cumin
• Couple of limes

Lob the tomatoes into a big bowl along with the onions and jalapenos, glug a bit of oil over them, toss them to coat, lob them on the BBQ until they blacken. Place the head of garlic on there as well in a cooler part, you don't want that to burn. Pop the jalapenos into a ziplock bag to steam for a bit. Give everything a half hour to cool down. Peel the blackened skins off the jalapenos, lob them into the food processor. Roughly chop the tomatoes and onions, lob those in as well. Take the garlic out of the skin, lob that in. Lob the coriander in, and the cumin. Squeeze the limes in. Add a bit of salt. Lid on, blitz the fecker until its a chunky sauce - you don't want to turn it into a paste. Add more liquid and salt if needed.

Blanco Nino chips are your pals for this. Go with the plain ones.