Since it's just me scratching my head and experimenting with batch after batch in my kitchen after the kids are asleep, it's not a "throw-down" so much as a "sauce-up" I think.
Either way, after my bitter green sludge incident I was keen to redeem myself in the kitchen and went back to the basics for the most straightforward basic sauce possible.
This was predicated by the discovery on a routine cereal and soft drink expedition to the local Safeway that they had a ton of really nice looking ripe red jalapenos in the produce section. I got a little more than half of a pound of them and picked out about half a pound of their best looking orange habaneros and headed back home for some experimentation.
Here's the setup:
My goal was start with a simple sauce: peppers, vinegar and salt---and work my way up from there to something I could call my own.
First sauce was just jalapenos:
8 Jalapenos
1/3rd cup of white vinegar
1/2 tsp of salt
I cut up the jalapenos:
Put them in the boiling vinegar:
Cooked for 15 minutes until they were nice and soft:
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Either way, after my bitter green sludge incident I was keen to redeem myself in the kitchen and went back to the basics for the most straightforward basic sauce possible.
This was predicated by the discovery on a routine cereal and soft drink expedition to the local Safeway that they had a ton of really nice looking ripe red jalapenos in the produce section. I got a little more than half of a pound of them and picked out about half a pound of their best looking orange habaneros and headed back home for some experimentation.
Here's the setup:
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My goal was start with a simple sauce: peppers, vinegar and salt---and work my way up from there to something I could call my own.
First sauce was just jalapenos:
8 Jalapenos
1/3rd cup of white vinegar
1/2 tsp of salt
I cut up the jalapenos:
![IMG_4656.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi288.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fll179%2Fsmariotti%2FSauce-Up%25201%2FIMG_4656.jpg&hash=376c278711d2cce210cf04b7da717e3d)
Put them in the boiling vinegar:
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Cooked for 15 minutes until they were nice and soft:
![IMG_4658.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi288.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fll179%2Fsmariotti%2FSauce-Up%25201%2FIMG_4658.jpg&hash=1ff78d96f3001f58785cc1f072a24c7a)
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