it's a scorcher out there!

We all know it gets hot in the Lou in August, but we pumped up the heat this week with our first attempt at hot sauce.  I mentioned in a previous post that Big Guy bought two habanero plants instead of our usual jalapeno plants for our city garden.  Well, we got a bumper crop of these beautiful red peppers so Big Guy got to work on a recipe, so we didn’t waste them. 

We remembered to ventilate the kitchen well while cooking the peppers.  The result was surprising in that the heat started at zero and gradually grew to a pleasant warmth in our mouths.  After waiting a week to allow the sauce to marinate, we were again surprised at how much the flavors melded into a delicious hot sauce without an extreme burn. 

Click here for the recipe.  It is a multiple step process but so worth it in the end.

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