[Sca-cooks] OP: salsa sans capiscums?

[Susan Fox]

I would take Maire's salsa as below and then apply our Super Medieval
Knowledge to it!  Take every other spice with "bite" and bang it together in
a mortar and pestle, including but not limited to:

Black pepper
Cubebs
Grains of Paradise aka Malaqueta Pepper
Long Pepper - have you ever bitten down on one of these?  Ai-yi-yi!
Fresh Ginger

Plus those other "chili powder" favorites, cumin and garlic.

This should provide some "bite" for the capsicum-impaired.

Bon Appetit, Selene


On 8/3/05 9:16 PM, "Sue Clemenger" <mooncat at in-tch.com> wrote:

> Tomatoes & onion, both chopped, salt&pepper, and fresh lime juice? Maybe
> make it with tomatillos as an alternate flavor? That's basically the way
> my little sister makes it, although she adds a few fresh jalapenos to
> it.  Oh, and she adds fresh cilantro in there too, but not too much.
> I'd imagine that it would be the freshness and quality of the other
> ingredients that would be key in creating an interesting, but
> non-peppered flavor....
> --maire
> 
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:
> 
>> Anyone got a good recipe for tomato salsa without peppers? My
>> soon-to-be-roomie Sarah loves salsa but peppers don't agree with her
>> much.