Re: [CH] Sour
mstevens@exit109.com
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:15:29 GMT
At 01:38 PM 1/19/01, you wrote:
>
>Peeps,
>
>So, about that new President ... yesterday on NPR they were talking to
>various Austin people about GWB's personal tastes in foods, etc. - kind of
>like how Clinton was famous for liking hamburgers. One thing they mentioned
>in a restaurant interview was a habanero-lemon sauce.
>
>Hmmm. That thought dogged me all day, so on the way home I got a four or
>five fresh habs. I stemmed and seeded them, and cut them into little
>shreddy strips. I froze these in a small steel bowl. I juiced two lemons
>and two little clementine oranges, added about 3/4 teaspoon of salt, and
>half of a _small_ onion, run through a garlic press.
>
>I took the habs out of the freezer, looking all frosty ("Hello, Birdseye
>customer suggestion line...") and mixed these into the juice with one of
>those immersion-type "outboard motor" wand mixers. It made a little more
>than could fit in a standard woozy bottle.
>
>I haven't tasted it yet. I was afraid to taste it this morning, knowing
>that my coffee would taste like gasoline for 30 minutes afterward if I did.
>But someday you'll see, I'll be brave enough to dip a shrimp in it ... my
>mind wanders off to tonight's dinner ... then I need to come up with a name
>for this.
>
AAAARRRRGGHHHHHH!!! You go through all that work and then take the time and
effort to type a message describing the process in detail... and then you
DON'T TASTE IT?!? Sigh...
=Mark "Runs With Scissors" Stevens
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