I\’m on fire!

Yesterday was one of those favorite kind of days. Morning bike ride with the boys. Coffee at Starbucks. Home to shower and ready for the day. Shop for dinner. Chill.  Cook dinner. Eat dinner. Chill.   Hot tub.  Bed.  Ahhhhhh!

Somewhere along the way yesterday, I decided on carnitas for dinner. Was going to keep it simple though  . Bought a nice pork tri-tip and semi-slow cooked it on the bbq. Low and slow baby!  30 minutes at 350 on each side and you’re in heaven.

While the meat was cooking I sliced up a maui sweet onion, red bell pepper and four jalapenos. Tossed them all in a little olive oil and into a low/medium heat saute pan.  low and slow  baby!!  Cooked these babys way on down  – until the maui sweets were golden and the jalapeno was burning my eyes.  Burning so much in fact that I started to think that maybe one jalapeno would have been enough.    

Carnitas tacos – thin sliced, slow cooked bbq’d pork – sauteed onion and peppers – salsa verde – cabbage with rice vinegar drizzle. Dinner is served!!

I didn’t even put a jalapeno in either of my tacos, because  I knew that the onions and red pepper had absorbed all the heat from the jalapenos.  I was a littel scared!   Barb, of course, got full jalapeno on each of her tacos.  I must say, this Irishman can make a taco. That first one tasted sooooooo good. Something about that crunchy cabbage, warm tortilla and spicy bbq’d  meat that tantalizes the taste buds. Oh, and did I mention that my lips were on fire?  Somebody call 911!!   As hot as my lips were, it didn’t matter.

 Taco #2 please!! 

So yes, it was a good dinner. My lips only burned for about 45 minutes and all was good in the world. After a while it was off to the hot tub to let all the troubles of the world melt away.  What a beautiful night it was. Stars out. No clouds. No wind! All good. So Barb ane I are enjoying an evening soak like usual, when the tips of my fingers started to burn!   I’m thinking “WTF!?” then realize that it was the jalapeno coming back to haunt me yet again!! The heat of the hot tub created some reaction with the jalapeno oils that were somehow still on my fingers.   Holy Shmoly!!   My finger tips were on fire!!!  SOMEBODY CALL 911!!!!!!!! 

So obviously there is some rule that I didn’t know about when it came to cutting jalapeno peppers. Do you have to put on asbestos gloves or something?  

Anyway, my finger tips only burned for about 45 minutes, then I was good to go.

 Man!  What a great dinner!