Pills & Peppers

I don't know how old people do it. There is the once a day pill, the twice a day pill, the 3 times weekly except saturdays that are an odd date pills. Its astounding anyone lives beyond 30.

Tomorrow, I'll be roasting and canning 80 pounds of jalapeño.  I will try to make a video of the process that is enjoyable and informative. Tonight the kitchen gets a top-down major scrub of every surface in prep for the canning. 

This forms the basis of my salsa. My salsa has no tomato, onion or anything other than peppers. The jalapeño are purchased at deep discount, usually 3 pounds for a dollar, roasted and canned. Then in the coming summer, as the hot peppers fruit up and there is just a few of them, after picking, they are roasted or boiled in some water and added to the base.

Pepper aficionados that have had the salsa prepared this way love it. The un-initiated tend to fear anything I make afterwards. No gotcha's coming from my kitchen, but it seems my tolerance is pretty high and I don't notice the burn. The salsa is built for flavor and heat.

When I need salsa and there are no ripe fruit, Im not above heading to the local market and getting some habs to add to the base, but even a serrano from the garden is more flavorful than those.

There will be a fire tomorrow in SanBerdu and it will be my roaster! For now, back to the cleaning.