Hot food
Mike Van Pelt
>The Sharon Heights Safeway in Menlo Park has a shipment of jabenaro
>peppers for your enjoyment.
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>For those of you who do not know what a jabenero pepper is, it is
>perhaps the hottest of the hot peppers ... It does have some flavor as
>well, but many people can not get past the heat to get to the taste.
The habenero has a very strong flavor -- It's very different from other
peppers. One book on peppers that I have says that it is considered
to be a seperate species from all the other peppers. It's sort of
fruity (overripe peach?) sort of aromatic (cilentro?) I found some at
the Lucky's at the corner of White and Aborn in San Jose -- they have
them occasionally. I made some salsa from them, and it was moderately
hot (I was being cautious with these infamous peppers). But after a
few days of nibbling at it trying to decided if I liked the taste or
not, I decided that I did not. They're probably an acquired taste,
which I haven't acquired.
I have a bottle of Melinda's Habenero Pepper Sauce, which has the
same sort of flavor.
I have heard that the taste of the dried ones is quite different. I
have a bag of dried ones, and will probably try that out one of these
days. According to the package, though, these should only be chopped
in a glove box or a fume hood.
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Barry Hayes
interesting [and several painful] things with them. They bought this
case as a special favor, and if they sell well, they'll be more
inclined to do it in the future.
For those of you who do not know what a jabenero pepper is, it is
perhaps the hottest of the hot peppers, ranking a full ten on a scale
of one to ten. It does have some flavor as well, but many people can
Dana Crom
The Monterey Plaza Lucky's at Monterey HW & Blossom Hill Road in SJ has them
too. Yes, they do have a rather sweet, delicate flavor as well as a fair
amount of heat. Its just a matter of taste, I suppose - my wife and I both
think they taste the *best* of any of the hot peppers, with home-ripened
red jalapenos coming in a distant second.
As far as heat - yes, they are hot, but they are not the all-out-nuclear-
meltdown-slag-your-mouth-hot monsters that some people seem to think. If
you like jalapenos or medium-to-hot thai food, you will probably like the
habaneros, too. My wife and I both like them enough to nibble on them
straight - they aren't *that* hot. I wouldn't recommend stuffing them,
though . . .
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