With all the peppers, I started making hot sauce again.
Jalapenos and Santa Fe peppers.
I have four or five varieties of jalapenos—Tam (a mild one), Mammoth, and just regular old hot ones. I also picked up a Santa Fe pepper plant. The Santa Fe variety is also called Guero and can be picked in the yellow, orange, or red stages. They are suppose to be slightly hot and mildly sweet. Mine are mostly HOT! 🙂
I have three batches of hot sauce going at the moment—a red one from red jalapenos and orange Santa Fe peppers, a green one from green jalapenos, and a yellow one from yellow Santa Fe peppers. They are mellowing now on the cabinet.
I am assuming these will have varying levels of heat.
I love the colors and hope that they will be this vibrant after the sauce is strained into bottles.
For the directions and original recipe, you can visit my post from last year on Making Your Own Hot Sauce.
Abigail, we took the godchildren to the zoo a couple of weekends ago. I promised some pictures from that trip. My camera pooped out but I got a couple of pictures of my favorites:
A Fairy Bluebird.
These beautiful birds can be found in tropical southern Asia and the Philippines.
Hugs and giggles!
I too love the vibrant colour of those hot sauces!
The last time I made a green sauce, it was kind of Army green so I hope it keeps the fresh color.
My nose hairs are burning! I wish I could dip into one of those sauces!
I have got to muster enough courage to give the red jar a taste to see if it needs to be strained or could go for some more mellowing.
I’m with Jen….I can feel the heat from here! I can’t wait to see how the three turn out though.
Me, too. I am so bad about posting follow ups! 🙂
Look at all that hot sauce!!! As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve never used your method of making hot sauce, but that’s about to change! The colors are gorgeous and it’s a quick way to get great results! Great post!
It is easy! I need to check out your way and I want to make some hot pepper vinegar like you posted as well.
I’m crazy for the colors of your sauces! They look like artwork sitting on that counter!
Let’s just hope they look that pretty when I strain them! 🙂
Oh the colors! So so pretty! Your hot sauce is so neat – I love that you let it ferment. Gotta try it! I made hot sauce once but I left all the skins in so it’s kinda funky-lol.
I left all the skins on too. Oh, no!!!
Thanks for alerting me to this, I would make my dads day if I made him some homemade hot sauce!
I hope you make your pops some.
First, I LOVE that hot sauce and I make my own as well. Second, I’ve never seen a bird like that and it must be one of the most beautiful ever!!
Thanks, Kelli. How do you make yours?
3 gorgeous hot sauces! I hope you’ll report back on all of them 🙂
I just tried the red one and I think I will let it go one more day.
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