Those of you who lived with the OC.net crew in college will remember the Spicy Pepper Vodka. A grueling concoction created by the ever-living Joe Miragliuolo. Basically, it was a bottle of cheap vodka filled with hot peppers. Taking a shot was a test of your manhood -- in retrospect, it would have probably would have been perfect for Bloody Marys.
So, with that in mind, and a bunch of hot peppers that my parents grew in their garden, I decided to make SPICY PEPPER VINEGAR.
This is the easiest thing ever. Ingredients? A big bottle of distilled white vinegar and some hot peppers.
Chop the stems off the peppers. Pour out the vinegar into a saucepan. Boil the vinegar. Boil the empty vinegar bottle and cap to sterilize it. Put the peppers into the sterilized bottle.
Boil the vinegar on your stovetop. Then pour it into the sterilized bottle. Cap it. Store it in a dark place, away from sunlight, for about ten days.
That's it. That's all it takes. Less than a fortnight later, SPICY PEPPER VINEGAR! Put it on hash browns and fries, drink it straight, do whatever you want with it. It's awesome.
