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 @ http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens @ @ ICQ# 2059548 @ Life is a Cabernet!