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Busy sunday

made 96 bottles last night....I've got enough in fridge for 3-5 more, just waiting on Filmore Container to deliver bottles today!
 
 
red: a variety of red peppers, lots of Scorpions and Primo, but a good mix.....6 bags of Maine cranberries, 3 prickly pear, pomegranate nails and 16oz of Pom juice, local carrots, 3 bulbs of garlic, a little agave......
 
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green got a lot of jalapenos, bunch of other random greens....2 sweet onion, 3 bulbs of garlic, lime juice and agave....
 
guess i don't have a pic of the ingredients, but here's the onion, garlic and 2/3 of the peppers under cherry smoke....
 
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and the red simmering away....
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ended up with 71 bottles of red.....might be one of my best sauces all time
 
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25 bottles of green......with another 3-5 left to bottle.....i am not a huge green fan, but this one came out just right.....just enough smoke, garlic and onion give it depth, the lime & agave cancel out the bitterness......really solid green sauce, althugh i probably won't keep one......the color is reminiscent of Linda Blair for sure!
 
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I might rip out a batch of yellow tonight.....probably +/- 60 bottles.....I am leaning towards mango.....maybe papaya.....star fruit? and some citrus......
 
then it is just waiting for my last few to ripen and make a batch of 30-40 blend......blend will get some smoke treatment, pepper, onion, carrot....a basic sauce, but there will be 20-25 varieties of pepper in there at least......oranges, yellows, reds, chocolates, whites, peach.......
 
 
Almost time to get selling.....after the kids and I heat shrink, label, hand letter everything.....looks like I'll top 200 bottles this year
 
Not bad for a little home operation ;)
 
i log all of my activities on facebook.....and when it's time to sell, i just drop a facebook post up, and sell via there mostly......shhhhh
 
have a few restaurants/bars that buy.....some friends and family......classifieds at school...lol
 
 
 
last year i sold 184 bottles.......130 were spoken for in the first 24 hours after i opened sales
 
 
 
pretty much just word of mouth.......usually folks that bought last year buy this year, and they tend to add to their order!
 
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