WARNING: These recipes are not for the weak of tongue- this salsa packs some H-E-A-T!

HOT SAUCE!

My girlfriend has this massive habanero plant that is seriously like an inch thick at the bottom.  I swear this thing is growing bark and turning into a tree.  Anyway, I picked about 50 peppers off this one plant (there were 50-100 peppers left when I was done), so it’s hot sauce makin’ time.  Fortunately, my brother/roommate has a food processor because I have no idea how I would make this without it.  Roast everything in skillet.  Do this until the carrots soften up, then put everything in a food proccessor and blend it up.  I added just a little bit of vinegar, then added water until it was a good hot sauce consistency.  It’s going to be a little thicker than the stuff you get in the store. I think the carrot flavor really compliments the habanero and makes it nice and sweet.  Oh yeah, and it’s really hot.

40 habaneros
4 large carrots
onion
4 garlic cloves
vinegar
cumin
allspice
salt
pepper

SALSA!

The food processor also helps with the salsa making.  You can throw all the ingredients in there and pulse the blender until you have it the way you want it (I like my salsa fairly chunky).  I prefer to blend individual ingredients and add it into a separate bowl. This way if I decide I need more onions or whatever, I can blend it up without thinning out the salsa too much.  But then again, I guess you could just move it into a separate bowl once you decide you need more of whatever then blend it.  I guess a better reason is that other ingredients blend more quickly than others, so you don’t thin out the tomatoes while trying to blend the onions down.  Adjust the recipe based on how hot you want this, I was going to add another habanero, but I didn’t want to make it too hot for the crows, who still thought it was insanely hot…

(The only thing that wasn’t grown in my garden or my girlfriend’s was the cilantro)
12 tomatillos
20 roma tomatoes
2 habaneros
4 jalapenos
4 cayenne peppers
salt and pepper
1.5 bunches of cilantro

Kevin will also be hosting his second annual Sausage Fest this month- check it out on the events page!