Hahaha! It's far better to run intuitively, that's where the magic happens. I am somehow not surprised that you wing it. Nothing I make is ever the same. At most I write down a rough list, if I even do that. I'll give it a shot based on the ingredient list and tweak it to my taste. I do believe we have some similar habits there, LOL! Homemade is always better in my mind.
Here's a recipe for one I made last year that I actually wrote down because someone wanted it. Tweak it to your tastes if you give it a go:
Peach Hot Sauce
10-15 Scotch bonnet chilies
2 heaping handfuls of Thai red serrano chilies
1 red onion
1 large or 2 small shallots
1 bulb of garlic
1/4-1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
6 peaches
2 TBS coconut oil
Ground, add amounts to your taste preference:
allspice (I put more weight on this one)
cinnamon
nutmeg
clove
ginger
2 TBS coconut palm sugar
2 TBS sea salt
African bird chilis are a fav, if you haven't had those ones, you'd probably like them. The land seaweed, try it out, if only for the fun and experience of it. I like the taste of it quite a bit.
In the ground, a Canary Palm, wow, wow, wow, I never would have thought that possible in Scotland. Only heard of them growing on Vancouver Island in Canada. Not sure of species there. You're going all jungle tropical. Would love to see photos of your garden in a post (not prodding here, just curious to see).
Not that I really to come across as a garden coveter, lol!
Not at all. I'm betting it's the challenge that got you. 😁
I will try that! It sounds quite awesome. In fact as I was reading through it out reminded me of my scotch bonnet chilli paste without the coconut oil or peaches!! But apart from that it is very similar!!
I should take some photos. It is still a bit sparse at the mo as it is early. In another few weeks out will be all green and mental!
I like the African bird chillies. There isn't many types of chilli I don't like although, despite me loving some deep great action I am not too find of the Naga and Scorpion ones because I feel the heat overtakes the flavor just that bit too much.
I shall have a garden post. You will probably be like, wtf, is that it!? :0D
Hahaha, I hope you try that recipe out, flavours are weighted a bit towards West Indian. Your scotch bonnet chilli paste sounds similar to Thai curry pastes I've made. The ingredients would differ a bit, but I bet it's similar.
I'd love to see photos once it's all greened up and taking over. Can't wait to see that garden post! Don't forget the garden gloves with frills off to the side.
You're right, if it's too hot, you don't get the flavour experience. I like the heat but also want that flavour. A couple non-chilli peppers...Grains of Paradise, Sichuan peppercorns...some interesting flavours with a mild heat.
Lol, frilly gloves. Amusingly, some of the best garden gloves I have bought have been marketed at ladies and I prefer them because they are snug on my hands and not big baggy rubber things like the typical ones which seem to be designed for giants!
That's interesting, LOL, now I wonder about the colours and design. Going to admit here, I avoid gloves unless it's a farming situation or I'm out foraging and have to wear them for something.
The baggy rubber things are horrible, Now that I recall, those are the kind I had to wear when doing landscaping for a couple seasons.
Wee get a lot of brambles growing here with their devilish wicked thorns. In fact, I have never seen so many in one area. They grow so fast and the only way of picking those bad boys up is with something rubbery. Otherwise, I can leave the gloves!
Sounds like wild rose bushes, albeit, less stabby thorns. It's murder trying to get those out and they spread like crazy. I imagine brambles must be similar. There's a shrub here, barberry, that has thorns an inch to two inches in length. The thorns do not break, I've tried. Been eyeballing them to see what I might make, lol.
Make some kind of horrifying mace-like stabby jabby weapon!
It is horrible dealing with those things. Especially when they manage to get you and get stuck and you cant get them out of you right away!