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  • What's your favorite Hot Sauces - Salsa Picante!

    Before my very, very minor stroke (don't you ever have a BAD stroke) my favorite hot sauce was Tabasco - and it's still a good one. Now that everything tastes different, there are several I like.... and would like to know of others to try. The one's I'm using now are:
    1. Tamarack Sap - from the restaurant in Inlet. Jalapeno based. Excellent.
    2. Cholula Hot Sauce from Mexico. Arbol and piqun pepper based.
    3. Tropical Pepper Co Special Edition from Costa Rica. Habanero based. Also has Pineapple
    4. Goya Salaita Hot Sauce Jalapeno Pepper based - green - from Mexico.
    5. Franks Original Cayenne Pepper - Buffalo Wings sauce.

    Have also started to make my own soup and gumbo base from the garden based on tomatoes, Jalapeno and Habanero Peppers.

    Anyone have some other hot sauce to recommend or other peppers to plant next season.

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    We have made our own hot sauces in the past. Just boil up some whole hot peppers(or a mix of hot and sweet and ethnic) in cider vinegar until soft,then run thru the blender and strain. No salt is needed if kept in the fridge. We add a little cumin ,garlic,etc.
    When using straight haberneros we add some grated carrot or you can use pineapple too.

    Beware tho.... it is pungent and will clear your sinuses while cooking...and I suppose you could process the sauce in mason jars.

    We look for sauces that are "organic" as far as added ingredients..no preservatives or filler please.
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    • #3
      Franks redhot! not to hot, not to cold, its just right !!!
      "I do it for the challenge and I refuse to lose"

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      • #4
        I just throw cut up tomatoes, an onion, some garlic and the hot peppers in a crock put to cook on low overnight. You end up with a base for soup, gumbo, salsa, chile and hot sauce depending on how it turns out........ Works very well after a frost kills the tomatoes and peppers - just throw in all the half ripe and green tomatoes with Jalapeno and Habanero left on the plants. Just one Habanero adds some pop to four quarts of tomatoes. Am freezing but thinking about learning to put in mason jars.

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        • #5
          Tamarack Sap is good stuff, I agree.
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          • #6
            Its not hard to can using mason jars. You may need to adjust recipes though. You need to make sure your mixture is acidic enough for canning. . I had alot of tomatillos and green tomataoes so I made salsa verde and canned it. It goes fast at parties. I love to make my own stuff and can it. all natural no artificial dyes or preservatives. Jam tastes so different when made with sugar vs high fructose corn syrup. There is a website called pickyourown.org where I've gotten some of my recipes

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            • #7
              WOW - that's a neat website - too much info to digest in a short time.
              How do you determine the pH and what pH is needed?

              Added later: Think I found the answer at:
              Why is a canner necesssary for home food preservation? Guide to Home Canning - Links to the Best Resources on the Internet

              Looks like pressure canning may be required for peppers ... will need more study: http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/fo...ili_pepper.pdf

              Right now my hair is soaking wet and mouth burning. Made up a crock pot with the above base and beef, venison, potatoes, barley, brown rice, celery, dry onion soup, and low salt beef soup base --- basically a lot of leftovers --- cleaned out the fridge ... was great with garlic bread.
              Last edited by dockless; 11-21-2011, 10:03 AM.

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              • #8
                First, I prefer hot sauce with sweet flavor so Tabasco, and Franks are just Cayanne Vinegar slop....and under powered as well.

                I came across what I considered to be the nivana of hot sauces - Inner Beauty Real Hot Sauce. A sweet sauce with complex flavors of tropical fruit and spices that married well to the intense heat of the habanero peppers. Not to be confused with Inner Beauty Hot Sauce which is a more mustardy version with less punch.

                Well the restaurant that marketed the sauce stopped selling it...With the internet, chatter arose and recipes were speculated.

                So when a large source of Habaneros arose, I jumped on the opportunity. With the blender whirrring I expereimented with several variants and came up with some options that come close to the original.....but not quite the same as when I first bit into the Chicken Fajitas with the original.

                Lets see if this excel info transfers

                All ingrediants in oz, but you can make it easy on yourself and use 1cup=8 oz for all but the spices and then use the backpack scale for the spices.

                Pineapple Juice 6
                Orange Juice 2
                Frozen Trader Joe's Mango 6
                Cider Vinegar 6
                Honey 4
                Canola Oil 6
                habanero chiles (seeds removed) 16
                Mustard 4
                brown sugar 2
                salt 0.3
                Cummin 0.33 (cheap at costco)
                Chili Powder 0.33 (cheap at costco)
                Curry 0.33 (cheap at costco)
                Tumeric 0.33
                Allspice 0.33

                Of course, it goes without saying that if you should not go down the road of experimenting with habaneros unless you know to wear latex gloves and safety glases in the process.

                The spices make a big difference and you can change the flavor significantly by changing the ratios a littles.

                makes about 1 qt.

                pour into mason jars and freeze for storage.

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                • #9
                  We look for sauces that are "organic" as far as added ingredients..no preservatives or filler please.

                  You might like these spices. Bought some from the lady who makes them at the ball field in Long Lake during the Pumpkin Chucking contest last October. http://www.santasatticandkitchen.com/index.php
                  Last edited by dockless; 11-21-2011, 10:56 AM. Reason: link didn't work

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                  • #10
                    I never actually measure the pH of anything I can. I just make sure I follow a recipe meant for canning.

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                    • #11
                      That seems to be the standard procedure.

                      Lots of info online, at Cornell Coop, and the local library has the Ball Blue Book.

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                      • #12
                        I am disappointed that no one has mentioned Sirracha.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by daxs View Post
                          Its not hard to can using mason jars. You may need to adjust recipes though. You need to make sure your mixture is acidic enough for canning. . I had alot of tomatillos and green tomataoes so I made salsa verde and canned it. It goes fast at parties. I love to make my own stuff and can it. all natural no artificial dyes or preservatives. Jam tastes so different when made with sugar vs high fructose corn syrup. There is a website called pickyourown.org where I've gotten some of my recipes
                          My stomach can't handle anything too hot but I would say my favorite is the medium salsa that we canned this year,so much better than store bought.In addition we made pasta sauce,chili sauce which works great for sloppy joes, sweet and dill pickles,pickled beets,and jam using green tomatoes and jello.We also canned some applesauce. Can't wait to start all over again next year! The pick your own website is a good resource to have in the favorites!

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by DSettahr View Post
                            I am disappointed that no one has mentioned Sirracha.

                            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce
                            I've made the fermented version of this several times and it is quite good:
                            http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2...ce-recipe.html

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                            • #15
                              This year i did strawberry and sour cherry jam, dill pickles, spicy bread and butter pickles, salsa verde and apple butter. I was on vacation when blueberries and peaches were at their peak so i did not get a chance to make jam or can those fruits. I use the apple butter recipe fromt he pickyourownsite. Dills are from friends mother. The spicy bread and butter i found online somewhere. Those are really good.

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