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Cooking/Food/Wine
Publisher: DreamWynd Publishing
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 52
Copyright: 2011
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
If you’re a brave fire eater, aka a Wailer, you’ll find something in The Little Book of RED HOT Chili Pepper Recipes that will tease, sizzle and excite your taste buds.
Chili, pork chops, chicken, beef, fish, egg and veggie dishes—even dessert await your dining pleasure, If you’re rather more of a wimp—just a whisper of warmth—or a whiner—more than a whisper but less than "Oh, God, toss me the fire extinquisher!" all recipes can adjust the heat to a flicker if you prefer it.
Hey, who knows? Someday, you, too, might graduate from Wimp to Wail, loving the heat of the moment!!
~Foreword~
I have to confess—I was never big into hot peppers until I met my husband, Andy. His method of introducing me to them was first to eat a bunch of them and then kiss me deeply. Yeah, my lips burned for hours after! That being the case, I wasn’t terribly keen on eating any myself. If a kiss could burn that hot, what would actually eating the things do!
So, it wasn’t until four years into our marriage that I actually ate any sort or form of chili pepper.
We were munching hot dogs one fair summer day, and my husband started teasing me to try a little jalapeno relish on mine. All right, try . . . I was game to try. Ever so cautiously, I spread a little on. I wanted to wade into this a little at a time.
Well, the guy expected me to slather it on and munch the whole thing right down—you know—like a man! I’m sorry, back then I was a WIMP! So, when I wouldn’t, he taunted me. “You ain’t got enough on there to taste it! Heh! Not even enough to see it! C’mon! You gotta put on more than that! God, I married a wimp!”
OOOOH! . . . so it’s really a dare!
Naturally, I protested. “Hey! Just remember, Sweetie Pie Honey Bunch, you’ve been eating stuff like this for years. I need to ease my tongue into this slowly, thank you very much! Not ready to sear it silly! A little bit at a time, okay?”
Got no mercy. “Wimp! Chicken! Ba-awkbawkbawkbawkbawk!”
We-eelll . . . y’know that only made me hot under the collar. Before he bawked his last “bawk”, I upended the jar, slathering my unsuspecting frankfurter with every last bit of that mean green jalapeno relish. “How’s this? This enough, now?”
My sweetheart’s eyes popped in both horror and amazement. “Oh, man! Why’d you do— You didn’t have to— That’s the last jar, y’know!” He slunk off to sulk the rest of the evening over my indifference of that little fact.
Yeah, but I ate that frank. Yes, ma’am, sir, I devoured it all! Hot sauce, mustard, dog, the whole works. Kinda wished I had saved some for another one!
Been hooked on hot peppers ever since.
My poor husband’s never challenged me to “try a little” of anything again. At least, not with the same attitude as then! Heh!
If you are a brave fire eater, you’ll find something here to sizzle your taste buds with. If you’re rather more of a wimp “barely want heat in it” sort, you can tone the fire down to a flicker if you must.
Whatever your heat tolerance is, enjoy! Who knows, some day, you, too, will graduate from a whisper of warmth to stinkin’ tear streamin’ HOT!!
I’m still working my way up to that point myself, just so you know . . .
— Neenah Davis-Wilson —
Excerpt
Quick’n’Easy Chili (Whine version)
THE INGREDIENTS:
1 pound of hamburger or ground turkey
1 large can of Bush’s Spicy Bold Baked Beans
1 large jar HOT salsa
2 large sweet peppers, diced
2 large tomatoes diced, or one large can of diced tomatoes
1 large onion chopped fine
1-2 garlic cloves minced
1 cup of instant or already cooked rice
1 large can crushed tomatoes
1 small can of tomato paste
Salt to taste
A pinch of cilantro (But if you don’t have it, don’t worry about it. There’s some in the beans.)
1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder
1 cup of chicken broth
THE PREPARATION:
Brown the hamburg or turkey burger; drain, put into a large pot. Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer until the rice is tender—about 20-30 minutes. No need to simmer for hours.
Serve with corn bread or tortillas.
**For variety you can add fresh frozen or sweet corn
Leave out the rice
Add :
1 pound of sausage, 1 pound ground pork
Use diced chicken, turkey, stew meat or venison
**For confirmed Wailers, add:
1-2 jalapenos, habaneras, and/or cayenne peppers chopped fine
**For Real Wimps:
Use only 1/2-1 jalapeno chopped fine or 1 cayenne pepper
1 thin slice habanera pepper chopped fine
Mild or Medium salsa
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