How to make Homemade Non-Fermented Tabasco Sauce & Whole Bottled Peppers

 Hello, Darlings

Thank you for viewing. 

Today, I have a couple of new recipes for you. If you are a fan of spicy food like us, than the two recipes below for homemade tabasco sauce and whole hot vinegar peppers, than give these recipes a try. Click the title link to download recipe.

Made from home grown Tabasco peppers

How to make Homemade Non-Fermented Tabasco Sauce & Whole Bottled Peppers

Ingredients

•  5 ounces tabasco peppers
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup white vinegar, or  White wine vinegar*
•  ½ cup water
• ½ teaspoon corn starch

Instructions

Tabasco hot sauce

1.  Add the tabasco peppers, white vinegar, salt and water to a small sauce pan
2. Bring the mixture to a quick boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes to soften.
3. Cool slightly, and then add a ½ cup of the vinegar mixture and peppers to an Instant Pot Ace Blender, or food processor.
4. Add corn starch
5. Process food on Smoothy twice or until smooth.
6. Add the 5oz sauce bottle seal and store hot sauce up two years in the refrigerator.

For the Whole Bottled Tabasco Peppers

1.         Add the tabasco peppers, white vinegar, salt and water to a small sauce pan
2. Bring the mixture to a quick boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes to soften.
3. Cool slightly and add the pepper to the 5oz sauce bottle
4. Fill bottle with vinegar mixture, seal and store sauce up two years in the refrigerator.

Note:

1. If using White wine vinegar omit the water.
2.  The corn starch will thicken the sauce a bit, so that it clings to the food, such as fish chips and wings.

 Until next time, 

       Chow, Darlings

Rice and Potatoes: Updates and More

Hello, Darlings

This morning, I have several recipes to post. As you know last year I bought a 1200 watt microwave oven, because a 1000 watt oven was unavailable. Since then, a few of my popular recipes have had to be adjusted to the newer heat settings.  For example the list for baking potatoes in my post, “Did You Know That You Can Nuke Your Potatoes?” was created for 900 to 1000 microwave ovens.  With a jumbo potato you would normally microwave it for 10 to 12 minutes on high, but with a 1200 watt microwave oven that same jumbo potato would only need 9 -1/2 minutes of cook time, so reducing the cook time for my older recipes I have posted on this website is a must.

However, this morning the following recipe "1200 Watt Microwave Oven Rice" is an update for the recipe printed on most rice packages where you would microwave a cup of rice in a 1000 watt microwave oven with 1-1/2 cup of water at a setting of 5 minutes on high, then again for10 minutes on the 50% or number 5 setting. Whew! What a sentence.

Well, with a 1200 watt microwave cooking rice became another learning curse … I mean curve.

So said, I now present my new microwave rice recipe to life easier, the “1200 Watt Microwave Oven Rice”.

1200 Watts Microwave Oven Rice

Ingredients:

1 cup rice

1 ½ water

Direction:

1. Add water and rice into 2-quart glass casserole dish
2. Place dish partially covered in microwave
3. Set cook time for 5 minutes; don’t worry if after this time the water level appears to be all gone, it’s not, so then,
4. Set power level to 5
5. Cook 6 Minutes

 

Once the rice is done, fluff with a fork and cover with a paper towel and glass lid to absorb the extra moisture.

This next recipe is a microwave variation for the popular Vigo Yellow Rice. I am a rice lover and if it wasn’t for the number of carbs that rice contains, I would eat it every day. Alas, when I do give in to my craving, I not only eat it with dinner but with breakfast and lunch as well. And, I had a yesterday I had a craving, but I was out of the regular rice I normally cook. However, I decided to cook some yellow. Normally, you cook the whole package of Vigo Yellow Rice as a main ingredient in another recipe such as Red Beans and Rice with Sausage or Shrimp Fried Rice.

As with my 1200 Watts Microwave Oven Rice recipe, the Vigo Yellow Rice can be microwave in a similar way and smaller amounts. I mean, why cook rice, any rice for an half an hour or more on the stove top. Stove top cooking has its day in my home also, but if I can do it easier and quicker … let’s nuke.

1200 Watts Microwave Oven Vigo Yellow Rice

Ingredients:

1 cup rice

1 ½ water

Direction:

1. Add water and rice into 2-quart glass casserole dish
2. Place dish partially covered in microwave
3. Set cook time for 6 1/2 minutes
4. Then Set power level to 5
5. Cook 6 Minute

Once the rice is done, fluff with a fork and cover with a paper towel and glass lid to absorb the extra.

This final recipe is for microwaving sweet potatoes on 1200 watts. Like cooking regular potatoes this recipe was a bit tricky at first, but I learned quicker with it,  than with microwaving the regular potatoes. So here it is my... "1200 Watts Microwave Sweet Potatoes" recipe.

1200 Watts Microwave Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

1 large sweet potato

Nutmeg

Cinnamon

Villa flavoring

1 -2 pads of butter

 

Directions

1. Clean and pat dry sweet potato
2. Use fork to add vent holes
3. Place sweet potato in microwave and cook on high for 7 minutes
4. Test for tenderness
5. Cut open in the middle and a sprinkle of each of remaining ingredients
6. Cook an additional 3 minutes
7. Repeat direction foe any additional sweet potato

Note: For medium sweet potatoes, I suggest reducing the cooking time by two to three minutes, and checking for doneness before adding more ingredients. By now you should be a pretty good judge of how much more or less cooking time will be needed to finish the potatoes. However, since it is just me and my husband, Stan, I cook the potatoes one at a time. Twenty minutes in the microwave versus one hour in the conventional oven. You choose.

Well, that’s all for today, and I do hope you find these recipes helpful and delicious.

Click links to download PDFs.  I realized that I left the s off of watts in the PDF copies of these recipes, but I know my old grammar professors would forgiven this once.

Until next time,

Chow, Darlings