November equals amazing habaneros

I never really knew that I loved habaneros until the end of 2023, but man-o-man, I

fell in love with this pepper in November 2023. Green habs, orange habs, red habs--hot enough to make your nose run like someone is trying to catch it, are one of my favorite pepper taste profiles. And we experimented a good bit with Dog Nose Salsa, (aka Xni Pac), processed tomato salsa and hot sauce during this time. It is one of our main ingredients in the cottage salsas we make, using both the fresh and dehydrated peppers.

We love the color. We love the heat. We love the tropical notes. It is a pepper that makes you wait patiently because it takes most of the growing season to produce a bumper crop; but when they show up and show out, it is bumper crop after bumper crop.

Processing habanero peppers often gets me all choked up and makes me cry happy tears. Habaneros are a true love match for my palette and a good match for blending with other peppers. Forever more, habaneros will always make the cut of what goes into our hot sauces. We just needed to find the right sweet pepper companion to complement that heat...