In the past I've only ever had your run-of-the-mill classic red hot sauces. All that changed this year when I stumbled onto some pepper plants at the nursery and took matters into my own hands.
I made two sauces earlier this summer - a mango/orange hab and a cherry/bourbon/red caribbean hab. Both delicious recipes graciously taken from members here on the board.
ANYWAY, up here in the North we just finished up our turkey-day long-weekend. My gut has been bulging since Saturday night and the tee shirts are feeling a little too tight.
Instead of the usual cranberry sauce on my turkey I spooned on the cherry bourbon sauce and BAM! just like that Thanksgiving dinner exploded with heat taking a favorite holiday meal up another few notches. What a great combo!
Then tonight, on my heaping pile of leftovers, I decided to hit the turkey with some gravy that I had been missing out on... so no cherry sauce and no heat. Then, as the plate was heating up in the oven, I had a revelation: I could mix my mango sauce in with the pile of carrot and turnip mash. I pulled out the piping hot plate and mixed in the sweet spicy goodness! And I gotta say for the first time in A VERY LONG TIME the veggies disappeared from the plate before the meat.
Needless to say, it has been a wickedly delicious long weekend.
So, I'm curious, how did/will you all heat up your Thanksgiving weekend??
I made two sauces earlier this summer - a mango/orange hab and a cherry/bourbon/red caribbean hab. Both delicious recipes graciously taken from members here on the board.
ANYWAY, up here in the North we just finished up our turkey-day long-weekend. My gut has been bulging since Saturday night and the tee shirts are feeling a little too tight.
Instead of the usual cranberry sauce on my turkey I spooned on the cherry bourbon sauce and BAM! just like that Thanksgiving dinner exploded with heat taking a favorite holiday meal up another few notches. What a great combo!
Then tonight, on my heaping pile of leftovers, I decided to hit the turkey with some gravy that I had been missing out on... so no cherry sauce and no heat. Then, as the plate was heating up in the oven, I had a revelation: I could mix my mango sauce in with the pile of carrot and turnip mash. I pulled out the piping hot plate and mixed in the sweet spicy goodness! And I gotta say for the first time in A VERY LONG TIME the veggies disappeared from the plate before the meat.
Needless to say, it has been a wickedly delicious long weekend.
So, I'm curious, how did/will you all heat up your Thanksgiving weekend??
