This is our dinner! It was absolutely tasty!! First of all I made the salsa out of Roma tomatoes, onion, cilantro, and jalapeno peppers. It was a huge batch which I added to everything. Then used it to top everything. I used turkey meat which added to the tastiness of everything! Now my fingers are BURNING!! I was going to use some rubber gloves to chop the peppers but thought it wasn't going to be necessary-YIKES!! I don't know what to do to relieve the pain. I keep putting them under the running cold water for a few seconds at a time for relief. Live and learn, I guess. Although, I know this has happened before to me!! :(
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I can smell the yumminess from here! Living in Texas and having a Mexican son-in-law, we get a lot of good Mexican food down here! It's one of my favorite things to eat!
Safe travels next weekend and congratulations on wrapping things up with your moving sale!
Connie
I forgot to mention this, our son-in-law that I mentioned in the previous post, was making salsa for one of our get togethers last summer. It was really hot and he was sweating. He went to wipe the sweat on his eyebrow and touched most of his eye. You guessed it, he had been handling peppers (he never uses gloves, I don't know if he doesn't need them or maybe he's telling us that "real Mexicans don't need to wear no stinking gloves"). At any rate, he burned his eye and had to flush it repeatedly with water. he's never lived that one down!
Connie
OOOOPS!! I can feel for him. My fingers burned all evening. I had to make sure that I didn't put my fingers near my eyes. I put them in my mouth and burned my tongue a little-those are powerful little things!!!!
That sounds awful, I have never messed with anything so hot as that! Doug would not let me, he has a hard time when I use onions to cook with!
That's toooooo funny on your cooking for Doug!!
This is a hint from Heloise:
These tasty, green chili peppers can pack quite a hot punch in spicing up Mexican dishes, but their seeds and membranes contain a heat-producing compound called capsaicin, which can be easily transferred to anything it touches. Here's how to get it off your hands: Rinse with milk or rub real butter on them -- dairy products neutralize the acids.
But my favorite hint to prevent the problem in the first place: Always try to wear rubber gloves when you're handling jalapenos (or any hot peppers) or coat your fingers with vegetable oil first. To reduce the "heat" of the pepper, carefully scrape out the seeds and membranes before using.
Hope it works. Cinco de mayo is coming up.
Maricela Rodriguez
TX
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