Babe's Awesome Salsa
This is probably some of the most awesome salsa you'll ever
taste!
Totally addicting!
Best made with good music in the background...
Good beer (but good is relative after 3 or 4 of them...)
And good friends...(that may be relative too after 3 or 4 of
them...)
Grab a huge bag of chips cause this makes enough for an
army....errr I mean a navy...
The picture below shows you the ingredients and what the
different kinds of peppers look like.
(In order of heat!)
Tomatoes, Bells, Chives, Pablanos, Jalapenos, Habaneros
Now pay attention!
There are some very serious consequences to your peace of
mind if you aren't careful about handling some of the ingredients... I'm talkin
"out of your mind" kinda sting if you touch so much as one seed of
some of these peppers and then get anywhere near your face with your
hands! This is extremely potent stuff and I don't know what the cure is if
you screw up and get pepper juice in your eyes!
One thing I do know... you don't want those
seeds in your salsa, either! So you'll have to handle them a bit to get
them out of the pepper before chopping it up.
Best to put on some rubber gloves here!
Naturally you've gone to the store and bought a bunch of
everything...
Wash it all off and start chopping...
 Bell
Peppers...
I use every color they come in. These are sweet peppers you
can eat fresh and enjoy a good crunch. The taste varies slightly according
to color but they are all sweet and slightly moist. They come Green, Red,
Yellow, and Orange... Wouldn't a Blue Pepper be pretty? Hmmmm
 Then
Chives...
You can really taste the difference in peppers and onions
here and now. They have a nice mellow flavor with a suttle after-burn... but
only if you haven't tasted another hotter pepper at this point! Chop up the
greens too and throw it in.
 Tomatoes...
You can make your salsa all green if you want but I throw
some maters in too. I get the ripe juicy flavorful maters... the ones that
have a little squeeze to em and you can smell their aroma when put close to your
nose...
 Poblano
Pepper
This pepper is mostly used at Mexican restaurants for dishes
like CHILIES RELLANOS. You're still in the safety zone as far as hot
goes...
 Serrano
Pepper
Now we get into some heat with a Serrano. Start practicing
good rubber gloves techniques here... You'll notice kind of a tough hide on a
Serrano so make sure your knife is sharp.
 Jalapeno
Peppers
This pepper has a back-of-the-throat heat and registers a 6
on the heat scale. So don't let tough-man-syndrome stop you from wearing gloves
when chopping them!
 Habenero
Pepper
(aka Bahamian Scotch bonnet)
This is the cutsey little lantern shaped pepper... don't be
fooled! This has a delayed nasal flame that sneaks up on you and persists! This
is the hottest pepper known and 100 times hotter than a jalapeno! This is one
you really want to wear those rubber gloves with!
Note: Some people like Cilantro in their Salsa... whatever.
NOW!
Put the bells and chives and maters in the blender and mix em
up a bit but just a bit...
Then add some pablano and mix... then taste!
(Pour half of this mixture into a container and hide.)
Then add some serrano and mix... and taste!
Then add some jalapeno and mix... and taste!
And if you've been drinking beer this whole time (like any
good salsa king would do... and tasting with chips...and you still want some
fire...add a smidge of habanero.
And taste!
And after all the beer and chips are gone, you'll still have
some virgin salsa left that you didn't overheat after your third beer...
I strongly recommend that you clean up the mess...especially
the seedy, juicy, sloppy wet counter top where you were cutting the hot
peppers... with a bunch of soapy wet paper towels. That way the cat food and
baby's bananas won't get tainted from left-over hot pepper juice that dried on
the counter.
Enjoy!
Advice from another source:
http://www.pepperjoe.com/faq/
Hot Hands
Pepper Joe,
Help!!!!! I just cut down a bunch of Hot Peppers to dry and my
hands are burning. Worse yet, I touched a delicate body part (Note
from the webmaster: Dumbshit!) and OH MY...I'm in pain. Anything to
give me fast relief?
Pepper Bob in Arkansas
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Pepper Bob,
I can relate. Not that you want to hear
this now but an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Wear plastic
gloves next time.
For now the best cure I've found is wash
your hands in pure dishsoap...without water for at least a minute. The dishsoap
will pull out most of the 'Chile Oil'... like it pulls out grease and oils from
dishes.
After you start to get some relief rinse
off well. Nothing takes 100% of the burn out immediately, but this will help.
Pepper Joe
(Click on the picture)
I found a lot of information about peppers at the site below:
http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/NWREC/pepper.html
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