So as we've mentioned before there is a sauce/garnish here called “Pepper”. It's a mix of hot, savory, vinegary preserved goodness. It's similar to salsa, but waaaaaaay more spicy. I've been promising myself that I'd make it at some point, but just never got around to it. However, the other day we just returned from Town and the pepper bush in our kitchen garden had exploded with peppers. We saw a few green “fruits” before we left, but as we walked closer to our residence we noticed the green peppers had turned a hot shade of crimson. Funny story about this plant. When a neighbor first gave us the plantling we thought it would grow into sweet peppers, but Chelsea's burning eyes, and red rimmed nose (she had touched her face after she cut it) bear witness to our misconception. It was actually a hot pepper plant rather than a sweet. Ooops. So we had some peppers just dying to be picked, and we couldn't for the life of us use all of them just in our every day cooking, so I decided to stop the procrastination and make some pepper sauce.
Hot peppers, deseeded, (about half a pound, we used about 8-9 of them)
2 cups of Vinegar (We used Apple Cider Vinegar, it has a very distinct taste, not sure if I'd recoommend it)
Cucumber
2 Onions
4-5 cloves of Garlic
tsp of Oil
*I added some water to cut the vinegar...use your own discretion)
We cut up and blended all of the ingredients together to make a fine, fine blended liquid (like salsa)
Then we simmered the blended ingredients for 10 minutes and put the liquid in jars and let it cool
Voila! Pepper sauce. I am sure there are other recipes out there, this was just an initial one we tried.
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