Turbo's Slog (Hot Sauce Log with a silent H)

[turbo]

Instead of having a different for each sauce I want to share with folks, I decided to make a Slog...a Hot Sauce Log with a silent H.
 
Roasted peppers with strawberry and mango ferment (take 1)
 
Haven't made any hot sauce all year because I've been going through last year's surplus.  So for my first sauce of the year I figured I'd go with a ferment.  I've been jonesing something charred and fruity.
 
Ingredients:
roasted habaneros, rocotos, and red chilis
one red onion
3 inch hunk of ginger
head of garlic (7 cloves)
1 mango
1 pint of strawberries
 
I think/hope that the fruit will add enough sugar to sustain a good ferment. 
 
Once its finished fermenting, I'm guessing it'll be pretty two dimensional and need a little something else for richness / complexity.  I'm thinking a bit of red wine and/or apple cider vinegar and/or soy sauce would really level out the sauce.  We'll see when the time comes.
 

 
Everything all ready to go in the food processor for a whirl tomorrow morning. 
 

 

[SmokenFire]

As a first foray it's pert damn good Turbo!  Try avery 5154 (I think?) 6 on a page labels - they can be printed at any office supply store on their laser printers and the results look pretty good.  

 

[tctenten]

Pretty cool labels. I like your graphic!

I just printed my first labels on some waterproof labels that the Boss recommended. I like the way they turned out.

 

[RocketMan]

I was smoking some cayennes for one of my favorite sauces yesterday and our 40 year old Little Chief Smoker finally died. 
 
Say hello to my new Big Chief Smoker.  Here is to another good 40 years of smoking stuff!
 

 
Man, we had one of those Little Chief that we did everything from smoked mullet to homemade jerky in and it never missed a beat. Hard to beat them.
 
Love the new graphic! 

 

[turbo]

As a first foray it's pert damn good Turbo!  Try avery 5154 (I think?) 6 on a page labels - they can be printed at any office supply store on their laser printers and the results look pretty good.  

 
Thanks Smoken!  I'm going into a print shop today to use one of their color laser printers.  I'm pretty sure it'll come out way cleaner

Pretty cool labels. I like your graphic!

I just printed my first labels on some waterproof labels that the Boss recommended. I like the way they turned out.

 
Thanks tctenten!  A friend of mine is a pretty good artist and has a fun warped mind when it comes to what she draws.

 
Man, we had one of those Little Chief that we did everything from smoked mullet to homemade jerky in and it never missed a beat. Hard to beat them.
 
Love the new graphic! 

 
Thanks RocketMan!  The Little/Big Chief line of smokers are really awesome and so simple.  Love it!

 

[turbo]

Second design.  I like this one better.  Dante stands out against the black background way better.  Also got the label printed at Kinko's on a fancy color laser printer and it came out WAY cleaner.
 
 

 

[tctenten]

Very nice. I agree about the darker background.

 

[turbo]

Yea yea, not a sauce I know.  But I was pretty proud of this one tonight.  Did a flank steak with a pineapple Jamaican Jerk teriyaki marinade...and it was AWESOME!!!
 
Ok for the marinade:

• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1/3 cup Japanese Mirin (you can get this in any Asian grocery store)
• 1/2 cup Japanese Sake
• 5 cloves garlic
• 12 oz of pineapple juice
• a couple of spoonfulls of your favorite Jamaican Jerk paste
• 1 (or more) tablespoons of fresh grated ginger

Marinade the flank steak for however long you want.  I did for 8 hours...seemed perfect to me.  
 
Holy crap this is good.  Its got the normal teriyaki goodness, combined with the nice heat and flavor of Jerk paste, and the pineapple juice just binds it all together like the One Ring in Middle Earth.
 
+2 points extra if you eat it as tacos with chopped up kimchi
 

 

[SmokenFire]

Looks great Turbo.  I love me some flank steak long time! 

 

[OCD Chilehead]

Dang turbo. That looks great. Thanks for the recipe. Got me thinking.

 

[turbo]

I've been kicking around the idea for a white hot sauce for a couple years now.  Two years ago I tried growing white Fatalii but they ended up really yellow.  This last summer I grew 7-Pot White and they were pretty white, with a slight bit of yellow, so I decided to make a sauce.
 
Ingredients  

• 20'ish 7-Pot Whites
• 8 garlic cloves
• 1 apple 
• 1/3% white wine vinegar
• 2/3% cane vinegar
• sugar and salt to taste

 

 
 

 
I like the look of the end result.  Not totally white, but close.  It really looks like vanilla pudding  Oh yea...it tastes good too