Ingredients: Variety of colorful chili peppers and fresh fruits and vegetables
White vinegar (enough for container)
Container (wine bottle or jar) Preparation: Layer chilies and other colorful ingredients in a jar. For narrow necks use a wooden dowel to ease through. Slice some peppers to reveal seeds. Fill with vinegar. Chef's Notes:
- Wear gloves.
- Don't pack too tightly or too loosely. Peppers should not float around.
- Add a little vinegar to check work about a third of the way into the process.
- Some suggestions for the vegetables and fruits include the following: carrots, onions, garlic, cranberries.
- Once you begin using your Chili-Pepper Vinegar, you can add more vinegar to the bottle. You can continue doing this until the peppers begin to fade. Once that happens, it's time to make a new batch.
- Why not put together a chili gift basket (figure A)? Include a bottle of the Chili-Pepper Vinegar, a recipe and the ingredients to make Chili Cornbread. You could even add a small skillet or cast-iron muffin pan. If you wish, you could also tuck some packets of chili-pepper seeds into a terra-cotta pot so the recipient can grow her own peppers.
- A great idea for spicy pickles: buy a jar of your favorite pickles, remove a couple and add a hot pepper or two. Keep it in the refrigerator for about a week so the pickles can absorb the pepper flavor, and voila! Spicy pickles!
Books: Barbecue Inferno: Cooking with Chile Peppers on the Grill
By Dave Dewitt and Nancy Gerlach
ISBN: 1580081541
Ten Speed Press
P.O. Box 7123
Berkeley, CA 94707
Phone: 510-559-1600
Fax: 510-524-1052
E-mail: info@tenspeed.com
Cooking with Chile Peppers
By Coleen Simmons and Bob Simmons
ISBN: 1558671498
Bristol Publishing Enterprises
14692 Wicks Blvd.
San Leandro, CA 94577
Phone: 800-346-4889
Fax: 510-895-4459 We at DIY believe all of the recipes from All in Good Taste are accurate and reliable, but since we have not tested them personally, we can claim no responsibility if the desired results are not achieved.
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