RE: [CH] Re: El Yucateco hab sauce--follow up

Mary & Riley (uGuys@ChileGarden.com)
Sat, 19 May 2001 20:55:27 -0700 

> She went to
> Mexico for a few weeks and brought over a jar of Yucateco
> Salsa Mayakut
> de Chile Habanero today.  Haven't tried it yet, but it looks
> good.  It's
> a paste, not as green as the sauce. Habanero, vinegar, tomato (tomate)
> and "sal yodatada".  Haven't the faintest what the last item is--aha!
> Iodized salt. Thanks, Atomica!

After working in the garden all day Mary decided to make some turkey
tacos while I took a shower.

Now, we have a rub I make that we use for an all around spice.  Since
the inlaws came over on Mother's day I'd made a "wuss" batch up that
didn't have Rev Jim's Smoked Savina in it.  Put it in a big old plastic
spice bottle and labeled it "Wonder Wuss Rub".

Ok, so she's chopping and cooking and grabs my bottle of regular rub,
thinks it's the wuss stuff and adds it to the turkey.  Taste's it,
know's it not hot and keeps adding it.

Well, it was _real_ good. Kinda snuck up on you.  Mary says it's hot and
wonders why when she only use the wuss stuff?  Well, when I asked her
which bottle she used I pointed out the cool stuff was labeled wuss and
the hot stuff wasn't.  "Oh!"  She says.  (She's blonde--artificial at
this point in her life, but so's blonde intelligence if you'll excuse
the oxymoron.)

So, it's hot but good; real hot but good.  And I want to try the hab
paste, so open it up and taste a spoonful.  Eat some more taco.  Mary
try's some too.

I consider myself a moderate to hot type.  Mary's moderate, Calvin's
powder on strawberries, that kinda thing.  She goes for the yogurt and I
go for a beer and another taco.  Mind you, I'm starting to drip.  It's
good.  It's hot!  Yogurt doesn't help Mary.  I had some buttermilk left
over from some chicken I made the other night and suggest that.  It
helps.  She's at the sink just standing with a glass of buttermilk and
holding some in her mouth.  I had another taco.  Yummm.  After my third
the hab paste wears off and I'm just sweatin from the plain old turkey
tacos.

Mary finally joins me.  I point out that if _I'd_ cooked that she'd
raise hell with me but doesn't she the point.

Oh well.  The Yucateco Hab paste is good.  It's hot, too.  Haven't seen
it here in the states yet, but will keep an eye out.

Hot ciao!

Riley