[CH] Sour

Alex Silbajoris (asilbajo@hotmail.com)
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:38:54

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.

- A

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