Blogging Ottinger (tim)Habenero Doritos
This really isn’t about hot sauce.
Last week my oldest boy picked up some habenero Doritos. They’re quite good but I did lose interest after a dozen chips. I liked them, but they weren’t “all that” by themselves. I don’t eat many of the Doritos at one sitting anyway (which is a good thing).
I picked up some tonight, and we tried something different. We also picked up some tomatoes (4 roma tomatoes) and some onion, a serrano pepper, and some special ingredients. We tried the chips with homemade salsa and homemade guacamole. Our recipes are very simple, but very tasty. The ingredients above are almost our salsa recipe. We add a bit of lemon, salt, and pepper. It’s quite mild and nice (depending on how chunky you cut up the serrano pepper).
Homemade Guac
1 Avocado
2 Tablespoons Fresh Salsa
Squeeze of Lemon Juice
The salsa is still better with corn tortilla chips or maybe Fritos. Habenero Doritos did nothing for the salsa, and they reciprocated.
The store-bought black bean salsa was okay with the chips, but unremarkable.
The guacamole, on the other hand, formed a truly wonderful marriage with the habenero Doritos. In fact, the combination was a little past wonderful. I now plan to keep these chips on hand as an excuse to buy guac ingredients. I don’t know what else the chips are really good for, but maybe I’ll find a few more interesting uses.
Oh, the chips are not horribly hot. They have a bite, but odds are that you won’t find get much of a burn at all. They just taste really, really good with guacamole.
Mmmm, guacamole. Im gonna have to make me some.
Comment by Steve — 2006-June-28 @ 01:35
Im not sure who will receive this email but I wanted someone to know from the DORITOS Co. that I love their fiery habenero. I like things that are hot anyway but I especially like the taste. The “heat” so to speak is just right and I eat a bag sometimes two for lunch every day. In my opinion these are right up there with the BUFFALO WILD WINGS hot and spicy garlic sauces. Thank you, Tim.
Comment by tim solomon — 2006-July-18 @ 02:34
I’m not with that company (I’m a software guy) but I hope someone will someday see it. I guess you could write the company.
Wait til you try those chips with guac! What a treat!
PS: I hope you’re eating two small, snack-sized bags and not two of the big family sized ones. I’m not worried about the pepper burn, but what that might do to a fellow’s waistline!
Comment by Tim — 2006-July-18 @ 11:11