hot pineapple relish

[sev]

Inspired by the three small hot red peppers given to me at the farmer's market. "here, try these," he said. It's hot and sweet and tangy.

3 small hot peppers
1/4c olive oil
1/2 onion
4 cloves garlic
1 8-oz can pineapple in juice
2T apple cider vinegar
1T ground cumin
3T fresh chopped cilantro

Roast peppers until their skins blacken. Put in paper bag, let steam.

Chop onion & garlic. Simmer over low heat in olive oil until onion softens. Add vinegar, pineapple & juice. Simmer some more.

Cut stems from peppers. Remove seeds (or not). Chop.

Add chopped peppers, cumin, and cilantro to the onion/garlic mixture. Simmer over low heat, covered, until onions are translucent and sauce has thickened.

I'm thinking of trying this again in a week or two once they've harvested their habaneros, with fresh peaches.

Comments

Interesting!

[(Anonymous)]

We just got some interesting peppers in our Farm Fresh To You box.

Do you add the cider vinegar to counteract the acidity of the pineapple? Do you broil the peppers or just roast them in the oven? (in a pan, or on the rack?)

Sounds YUMMY. I do love cumin in just about everything.

Re: Interesting!

[sev]

I added the cider vinegar when I was starting because I hadn't yet decided to add the pineapple yet, and I wanted at least a little tangy-ness in there. I guess that's a shortcoming of making-it-up-as-I-go-along.

I have a little wire rack I put on top of my stove burner & I roast the peppers over the gas flame. Broiling them would do just as well, I think.

[envoy.livejournal.com]

*poke* I'm off to my first Burning Man this weekend! Are there any church of Mez folks still around I should find and meet?

[sev]

Wow, congratulations on your first burn! Bummed that I'm missing it. (I'd heard that it's been cold, so far...bring some warm stuff for nighttime!)

CoM isn't camping as a group anymore, but they're scattered around a handful of other camps. A bunch of the CoM people are already out there setting up the Groovix Cube. A handful of people are going to be with Sparky's House of Phlame, a NY crew (most of that bunch don't know me, but I think at least a half-dozen or so of my friends are going to be there). And I know at least one person camping with Moonrock.

Of course, I have no idea where any of these camps are being placed, and BRC is huge. But if you happen to run into any of them you can invoke my name and see if anybody responds positively. :)

[envoy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! So many people I know have talked to me about it, I'm really excited to be finally doing it!

I'm pretty happy about the cold honestly, I handle cold a lot better than heat, and my sister has made me a proper lovely playa coat.

I'm going to be camping with the Shady Stragglers (the remains of the Shady Rest folks, I think some of them are from your neck of the woods.)

Any advice or wisdom for a noobie burner?

[sev]

might still be pretty hot during the day. :)

Don't go barefoot until/unless you're sure that the extreme alkilinity & dryness isn't going to totally destroy your feet.

If you're prone to getting lint in your bellybutton, take q-tips.

"barter economy," which some people will invoke, is something of a misnomer. "gift economy" is more accurate. And gifting something intangible (like storytelling, for example) often goes over well.

Exactly like at a con, there will always be something interesting going on, and trying to see it all will just rob you of sleep, food, and eventually sanity. Be willing to miss exciting things in order to do self-care.

I'm sure you've heard it but it bears repeating: if you wait until you're thirsty to drink, you've waited too long.

If you see somebody struggling to put up a shade structure (or not-struggling to put up a very large structure), it can be very rewarding to just trot over and offer to help. Especially early in the event, there's never enough hands to do everything.