[CH] Did I get El Grande PO'ed, or what?

Ron (swamp@netten.net)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 21:20:32 -0700 

Hi all,

    I feel as though I'm in some ironic mythological tale, for my
prayers to El Grande have been answered with a vengence. In the middle
of the summer I thought I had killed all of my plants by not thoroughly
reading the instructions for a posted home-made bug spray. Well, let me
tell ya'll, my plants are open for business! I harvested the 1st crop,
but then those habs took off. My habs are growing like some cross
between hab and kudzu. I have runners going all over my pepper patch,
all with MANY peppers on them.
    This has been a weekend of chili milestones for me. Let me elaborate
a little. Saturday, after neglecting my picking duties for a week, I
picked habs..... and picked habs, etc. After about a hour or so, my
feverish mine started saying " oh God!, now I gotta process all these
damn things!" Pondering my quandary of what to do with what was now 2
grocery bags full of habs, I suddenly was inspired of a way to spread
the chili gospel, and to also make a few bucks. I went into the house
and got a piece of left-over poster board from a child's school project.
I made a sign saying hot peppers $1 a bag (Lunch bag, but hey, I picked
em!) and drove my truck to the hispanic part of town, backed my truck up
to the street on a parking lot and sat on the tailgate, grinning like a
idiot and waving my sign. I made my 1st sale, because the little girl in
the car passing by thought the sign said Puppies, but her mom bought
some for her dad, who loved hot things. I assured the mother that these
peppers would be the hottest things he had ever eaten, and bingo, I had
joined the ranks of professional pepper growers ( a select, discerning,
but sturdy group of rugged individuals). sold one more bag there, but
then was inspired to even greater highths of pepper capitalism. I went
to several mexican restaurants in the area, and sold a total of $6 worth
of peppers, giving me a grand total of $8 sales. I took the rest home,
which was still over a grocery bag full, and processed them, which are
drying now.
    The other milestone was that I made my 1st sauce this weekend. I had
a bunch of serranos, so threw em in a blender( my personal pepper
blender. My wife's idea,not mine)put in a onion, a carrot, some garlic,
salt, lemon juice, and a little vinegar. Not too bad, but I need to get
a good sieve to get the seeds out. Lord, them serranos got the seeds!
    Well, that's all I'm going to bend ya'lls ears, besides, I think I'd
better go pay some attention to the wife, she's getting pretty jealous
of those peppers!

--
Ron M


As she lay there dozing next to me, one voice inside my
head kept saying, "Relax... you are not the first doctor to
sleep with one of his patients, " but another kept reminding
me, "Howard, you are a veterinarian."

               Dick Wilson