Armadillo

Real Name

Andy

Gender

Male

Occupation

General Practitioner, shrink-education in progress

Biography

Because of my wife's German and US dual citizenship we used to travel to the US once a year to visit family in Alabama. The last two years we didn't make it though. I started growing chilis in 2008 very amateurish and too late so that my harvest was humble that year. But I collected some seeds of orange Habaneros, Cayennes, Serranos, Jalapenos, Anaheims and Poblanos during my vacation in the US and did a lot of reading. So I did better 2009 and had a nice harvest.
Meanwhile I had good and bad growing years and I try to overwinter the best of my plants every year for a quick start in spring.

Favorite Food

very mood-related, only a few absolute dislikings

Favorite Beverage with Fiery Food

Corona

Favorite Hot Pepper

Habanero

Favorite Hot Sauce

My own homemade sauce.

Favorite BBQ Sauce

Jack Daniel's Hickory Brown Sugar

Favorite BBQ Food

my brother in law's grilled chicken

Share a Recipe

2008: Beginner that I was I put aside two "orange" Habaneros for drying before starting to our US-vacation. Meanwhile I experienced that they are extremely undryable without a dehydrator. Three weeks later they had ripend to red and began to soften around the stem so they had to be used. I wasn't ready to make a big deal in kitchen with my jetlag. To go to bed too early wasn't an option either. So I took out some gloves and started to dissect them. I saved the seeds. But what to do with the delicious pulp? I chopped the two little Habis and about three Jalapenos and another small unidentified relatively hot chili to small pieces. I mixed that with two cans of tangerines, a shot of white balsamico vinegar, a shot of white vine and a shot of Calvados and boiled it up shortly. I added a pinch of curry powder and a pinch of ginger powder as well as two table spoons of honey and reduced it on low heat. While unpacking the suitcases I stirred it every now and then. Cooling down it gelatinized nicely. That "improvised chutney" tasted nice to steak, flash fried meat and also to salmon.

Awards

A friends colleagues from India rated my 2008 Mango Habanero sauce as "really hot".