Abby and David's Napa Adventure: Hot Sauce and Snow!

This last week we realized that we were coming close to a day we had been dreading. We were almost out of our favorite hot sauce that we had carried back from Belize three years ago! We haven't been able to find it here in Missoula and we don't really want to pay the shipping to order it. So we decided to try to make it ourselves. We checked out the ingredient list and found a recipe online that uses the same ingredients. Here's (almost) all the ingredients. We've got carrots, garlic, onions, habanero peppers, and a lime. Not pictured are some salt, water, and vinegar.

We sweated the onions and garlic, added the carrots and water, and simmered until the veggies were soft. Meanwhile, we seeded and rough chopped the habaneros and blanched them in some white vinegar.

Finally we put the veggies, habaneros, vinegar, lime juice, and salt in the food processor and pureed it all together. We thinned it out with some extra water to the consistency we were looking for and got some pretty darned tasty hot sauce.