[Oshkalaboomboom]

Tabasco Sauce, as I noted earlier, is super easy to make and you can adapt it to make a basic hot sauce using any pepper you have growing. Just save a spaghetti sauce or similar-sized jar, wash and sterilize, add peppers, cover the peppers with your favorite vinegar (I use apple for my Tabasco sauce) and let them sit for a couple of weeks so the vinegar softens the peppers. What I do is pick some peppers, put them in the jar and keep doing that as more ripen until the jar is full.

Once you are ready get a blender or Smoothie maker, dump in the jar of peppers and vinegar and turn it on at high speed so all of the peppers are liquidized. Add salt to taste, top it off with vinegar until the blender is full (If you are using a Smoothie maker with a smaller cup you can split it into batches), give it another whizz to mix it all up then bottle it. Like I said, easy. BTW, I also use that pepper in a jar of vinegar tip when I make my Sriracha sauce so I don't have to pass it through a fine mesh strainer like they do in their recipe.

If you use Facebook there are plenty of pepper forums with advice on growing, storing and using them in food. If you don't like Facebook there are also plenty of regular Web sites like this one or this one that are loaded with recipes and growing tips. And of course, you can always ask on the Weekly Garden Thread.

[ibheath]

Thank you!