I Like Spicy Food
I like spicy foods. I like Mexican food. I like hot salsas and hot sauce. I like curries - Indian curries, Thai curries, Chinese curries. I like Vindaloo as well.
My husband never can find a spicy enough hot sauce. So, one September I bought about 500 grams of ghost peppers (bhut jalokia) October I went to a farmer's market. I made some ghost pepper hot sauce. It's almost hot enough to melt glass. :) I put some with tomatoes and onions I bought at the farmer's market. I boiled some sorrano peppers, and made some much-milder hot sauce. Then, I made salsa with that. Then, re-boiled the water with mild chili peppers, and made some reasonably-hot sauce which would have still been "extra hot" by ordinary standards. At the very end, I used the water - now diluted to about a 10X solution by homeopathic methods - to make some Mexican flavor of Rice-a-Roni very spicy.
While boiling these things, the 2 cats and the dog huddled by the front door. My eyes started watering. I opened the windows and doors, even though it was under 40 F degrees (about 4 C). The paint only peeled off the walls a little bit. (LOL) Also, while making this, I had the reserved ghost pepper water in a coffee cup. I had to stop my beloved husband from just drinking it. It was hot enough that it would have likely raised blisters.
I got it all done. We ate the Rice-a-Roni. The dishes were easy to wash, as there was only one pan. Meanwhile, I ran all of the hot sauce and salsa through a pressure canner and labeled these with high cautions on them.
Our friend who works as a weather forecaster for the Federal Government in Omaha, NE stopped in. They have something of an ongoing contest of who can bring in the hottest hot sauce. We gave him a jar of the hottest salsa and the hottest hot sauce. My salsa and hot sauce are the standing winners of this contest of the weather office at SAC. I guess this stuff really has the potential to "go nuclear".
My husband never can find a spicy enough hot sauce. So, one September I bought about 500 grams of ghost peppers (bhut jalokia) October I went to a farmer's market. I made some ghost pepper hot sauce. It's almost hot enough to melt glass. :) I put some with tomatoes and onions I bought at the farmer's market. I boiled some sorrano peppers, and made some much-milder hot sauce. Then, I made salsa with that. Then, re-boiled the water with mild chili peppers, and made some reasonably-hot sauce which would have still been "extra hot" by ordinary standards. At the very end, I used the water - now diluted to about a 10X solution by homeopathic methods - to make some Mexican flavor of Rice-a-Roni very spicy.
While boiling these things, the 2 cats and the dog huddled by the front door. My eyes started watering. I opened the windows and doors, even though it was under 40 F degrees (about 4 C). The paint only peeled off the walls a little bit. (LOL) Also, while making this, I had the reserved ghost pepper water in a coffee cup. I had to stop my beloved husband from just drinking it. It was hot enough that it would have likely raised blisters.
I got it all done. We ate the Rice-a-Roni. The dishes were easy to wash, as there was only one pan. Meanwhile, I ran all of the hot sauce and salsa through a pressure canner and labeled these with high cautions on them.
Our friend who works as a weather forecaster for the Federal Government in Omaha, NE stopped in. They have something of an ongoing contest of who can bring in the hottest hot sauce. We gave him a jar of the hottest salsa and the hottest hot sauce. My salsa and hot sauce are the standing winners of this contest of the weather office at SAC. I guess this stuff really has the potential to "go nuclear".
