Ben's Hot Sauce (the making of)

You'll need, roughly:

 

2 1/2 cups of very hot peppers

2 heads of garlic

A few tomatoes or a small can of tomato paste

A few mangoes

Vinegar

1. Pick your peppers (these are piman zwazo, which grow quite productively in a tire on our driveway):

2. De-stem and clean peppers, then blend to taste with garlic, tomato, and vinegar (Ben uses homemade vinegar, usually pineapple vinegar, which is easier to make than hot sauce):

3. Add anything else to the blender that seems delicious (like mangoes if you're in Haiti and they're in season, which we are and they are):

4. Enjoy and/or share one gallon of hot sauce:

Tips:

- Wear gloves or plastic bags over your hands if you chop the peppers instead of blending them.
- Don't rub your eyes.
- Some online recipes call for sautéeing the peppers... this is a bad idea.
- Refrigerate.