Sunday, July 06, 2008
© THAT HOT STUFF - 2008
i made hot sauce last night with miss sara velasquez and it turned out pretty crappy i might add. i take all the blame. not hot at all and a bit on the sweet side. i pureed the personality out of it too which sucked.
well, i rectified that today. the first thing i did when i got up was go hunting for habaneros down in new town. 4 locations later i had secured what must have been the last 5 habanero chilies in the whole of wellington. found them in an indian food wholesaler of all places - slowly rotting in a tiny box in the back. good thing i'm not the kind of guy who takes the advice of others...if i had been i'd have been turned away at the counter empty handed and left with a wasted batch of crappy hot sauce.
all told, i got about a bottle of what i'll consider a mild habanero hot sauce. i even ate it on my breakfast burritos earlier and it worked out quite well. could be much hotter but all in all, i'm pretty proud of myself. i had this notion of wanting to make hot sauce about 6 months ago but it got shelved because i was too busy.
that all changed when my web developer, adam, told me he made a bottle of hot sauce (which i consequently purchased from him). not one to be outdone, i decided it was time to try my hand at the process. it is surprisingly easy. i think i'll keep refining the recipe until i come up with one i really like. as it is, i came fairly close to mimicking mike and dianes "ring of fire". if i can nail that, i will be one happy camper because acquiring bottles of that down here is an outright hassle at times. thank you to each and every one of you who have brought it back or shipped it down. i can not thank you enough.
sara asked me last night what i'd name my hot sauce if it ever evolved to that level. i didn't have a good answer last night but thinking about it just now, i thought "That Hot Stuff" would be a fun name. hey, can you pass me some of "That Hot Stuff" please? thank you.
it has been a busy, windy, freezing weekend and i'm beat. oh yeah, bozo the clown died the other day and THAT SUCKED.
i made hot sauce last night with miss sara velasquez and it turned out pretty crappy i might add. i take all the blame. not hot at all and a bit on the sweet side. i pureed the personality out of it too which sucked.
well, i rectified that today. the first thing i did when i got up was go hunting for habaneros down in new town. 4 locations later i had secured what must have been the last 5 habanero chilies in the whole of wellington. found them in an indian food wholesaler of all places - slowly rotting in a tiny box in the back. good thing i'm not the kind of guy who takes the advice of others...if i had been i'd have been turned away at the counter empty handed and left with a wasted batch of crappy hot sauce.
all told, i got about a bottle of what i'll consider a mild habanero hot sauce. i even ate it on my breakfast burritos earlier and it worked out quite well. could be much hotter but all in all, i'm pretty proud of myself. i had this notion of wanting to make hot sauce about 6 months ago but it got shelved because i was too busy.
that all changed when my web developer, adam, told me he made a bottle of hot sauce (which i consequently purchased from him). not one to be outdone, i decided it was time to try my hand at the process. it is surprisingly easy. i think i'll keep refining the recipe until i come up with one i really like. as it is, i came fairly close to mimicking mike and dianes "ring of fire". if i can nail that, i will be one happy camper because acquiring bottles of that down here is an outright hassle at times. thank you to each and every one of you who have brought it back or shipped it down. i can not thank you enough.
sara asked me last night what i'd name my hot sauce if it ever evolved to that level. i didn't have a good answer last night but thinking about it just now, i thought "That Hot Stuff" would be a fun name. hey, can you pass me some of "That Hot Stuff" please? thank you.
it has been a busy, windy, freezing weekend and i'm beat. oh yeah, bozo the clown died the other day and THAT SUCKED.