Food, glorious food!
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clodia_risaSo, since I've become all domesticated and stuff, cleaning occasionally, cooking every night, etc., I've tried to come up with new recipes. You can only have taco salad so many times in the same month. So, on Tuesday night, I made a delicious southwestern salad: Spinach leaves, grilled chicken (with lime, black and cayenne pepper), guacamole, black beans, and some finely chopped habanero peppers. It was tasty!
I love the flavor of habanero peppers. I haven't started using the seeds yet for anything, just the actual pepper, so I the meals haven't been particuarly hot. It has a nice fruity flavor (for a pepper) and I'm using it more and more when I would usually use jalapeno.
The last time I used it, I made stuffed hamburgers. I made black beans and flavored them with quite a bit of habanero, and then filled the hamburgers with that combination. It was messy, but pretty good. That was my first time using habaneros, and I was very careful not to touch them.
Unfortunately, this time, I apparently had no brain. I had recently learn the quickest way to deseed a bell pepper (just rip the seeds out with your bare hands) and so decided to do so to the habanero. An hour after dinner, I complained that my hands were starting to tingle. Within thirty minutes, my hands were burning. I made up a bowl of iced buttermilk (cold and fat, both good for the pain) and slowly my hands started to feel better. After my hands felt better, I took them out. Within three minutes, I was near tears because of the pain. So, I put them back in the buttermilk bath.
This was the rest of my night. It was about 9:30 when all this started. I couldn't fall asleep until 5. (I usually go to bed around 11.) The issue was I had to keep my hands in the bath. I could not figure out how to go to sleep without spilling the bowl of buttermilk (I eventually found a method at 5, when I was too exhausted to sit up straight.) If the milk was too cold, then my fingers would burn. If it was too warm, my fingers would burn.
About 3 in the morning, we ran out of ice. I spent about 30 minutes crying before I decided that I had to think of something else, because I was not going to spend the rest of the night like this. So I look in the freezer and find some bananas that I had frozen for later use in banana bread. Turns out, they fit in the bowl quite nicely, and last way longer than ice.
So after getting an hour of sleep, I went into work, did two hours of work, went home and slept till 4:45.
And that, friends, is why you should always wear gloves when dealing with habaneros.
It was still a tasty, tasty dinner.
I love the flavor of habanero peppers. I haven't started using the seeds yet for anything, just the actual pepper, so I the meals haven't been particuarly hot. It has a nice fruity flavor (for a pepper) and I'm using it more and more when I would usually use jalapeno.
The last time I used it, I made stuffed hamburgers. I made black beans and flavored them with quite a bit of habanero, and then filled the hamburgers with that combination. It was messy, but pretty good. That was my first time using habaneros, and I was very careful not to touch them.
Unfortunately, this time, I apparently had no brain. I had recently learn the quickest way to deseed a bell pepper (just rip the seeds out with your bare hands) and so decided to do so to the habanero. An hour after dinner, I complained that my hands were starting to tingle. Within thirty minutes, my hands were burning. I made up a bowl of iced buttermilk (cold and fat, both good for the pain) and slowly my hands started to feel better. After my hands felt better, I took them out. Within three minutes, I was near tears because of the pain. So, I put them back in the buttermilk bath.
This was the rest of my night. It was about 9:30 when all this started. I couldn't fall asleep until 5. (I usually go to bed around 11.) The issue was I had to keep my hands in the bath. I could not figure out how to go to sleep without spilling the bowl of buttermilk (I eventually found a method at 5, when I was too exhausted to sit up straight.) If the milk was too cold, then my fingers would burn. If it was too warm, my fingers would burn.
About 3 in the morning, we ran out of ice. I spent about 30 minutes crying before I decided that I had to think of something else, because I was not going to spend the rest of the night like this. So I look in the freezer and find some bananas that I had frozen for later use in banana bread. Turns out, they fit in the bowl quite nicely, and last way longer than ice.
So after getting an hour of sleep, I went into work, did two hours of work, went home and slept till 4:45.
And that, friends, is why you should always wear gloves when dealing with habaneros.
It was still a tasty, tasty dinner.
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on 2006-06-02 03:44 pm (UTC)I always use utensils to deseed peppers (on the VERY rare occasions that I use 'em) anyway, but I would've been utterly stupid enough to just fling 'em around and probably get the juice all over my hands ANYWAY.
Your suffering has opened my eyes; I thank you. (Now watch me forget the next time I use peppers anyway.) Seriously though, OW, I'm so sorry!! I have a repeated tendency towards stupidity whenever I use a recipe that involves baking something inside a skillet - all my skillets have metal handles, and so while I use a potholder to take them out of the oven I always forget and grab the handle bare-handed about five minutes later. At least the most recent time it had cooled down considerably more than the last time... :P I am a danger to myself and others.
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on 2006-06-02 05:56 pm (UTC)I made a potato/egg/cheese/bacon melt thing last night where I put the almost-finished product in the oven and had the same problem when it came out! I think I burned myself 4 times! It wasn't that I even grabbed it, I was just careless when scooping the food out.
I'm glad that I'll be preventing someone else from a sleepless night (probably.) But you've got plenty of those right now anyway, don't you?
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on 2006-06-02 07:27 pm (UTC)My nights aren't exactly sleepless, just tremendously uneven. ;) I guess the fact that I regularly get less sleep than I used to does add up, though... I came in two hours late today b/c I decided to stay home and sleep a little longer after Dan took her in to daycare. It went SO QUICKLY. (I have real trouble falling deeply asleep - it takes me a LONG TIME. Sometimes the only reason I know I've been asleep and not just lying there with my eyes closed is b/c I'll have dreams.)
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on 2006-06-02 07:41 pm (UTC)Yeah, one time I had really hot wings at Taco Mac and couldn't feel my mouth for about an 1.5 hours after the meal. I didn't even finish all ten!