I woke up this morning to this site on my counter… my midnight creation. Green tomato salsa. Very tasty!
Autumn definitely is busy for me. I want to create… gather… cook and preserve. We’ve had frosts for a few nights now and I had to rescue the rest of the tomatoes from the cold though there were just a FEW unripe. See my garden helpers? Israel, 3 years old, could not for the life of him understand why we were picking all the green ones when all summer long I told him to only pick red ones.
I think we had more green tomatoes this year than red. 🙁 That’s ok because I chanced upon this recipe that is definitely NOT a “make the best with what you have” recipe. This salsa is awesome! I made some with green tomatoes that fell earlier this year and now I made a huge batch roughly following the recipe. Although next time I may make it like normal salsa… but just with green tomatoes.
Last night I also discovered something. Jalepeno peppers can be evil! I’ve cooked with jalepeno peppers only one other time and had no problem. But, last night. Well let’s just say I didn’t know about using gloves when de-seeding jalepenos and I rubbed some juice in my eye. That actually wasn’t too bad. I finally figured out to stick my head in a bowl of water and force my eye open and it flushed out fine.
But, just a little later my hands were hurting, burning, badly. I began to research what to do. I’m no baby when it comes to pain but this was… inconvenient. I wanted to go to bed but instead I spent a very long time applying everything I and Google could think of to my burning hands. I finally definitely washed the oil off my skin but it still burned. After all these things though, and being very tired I finally slept… some… last night. Just in case you ever do the same stupid thing here’s a very long list of things you can *try* to take away the burning.
Scrub with hot water and dish soap (feels horrible. Any heat felt horrible but it did help wash some off I think.)
Oil (Made it feel much worse… I say avoid!
Yogurt (Felt very very good… for a couple minutes then the burning was back…)
Cold Milk (Felt awesome to soak my hands in this. Though sitting on the couch holding my hands in a cup of milk was awkward… and the burning came back as soon as the milk lost its ice cold quality.)
Baking soda paste (Didn’t work.)
Rubbing alcohol (Probably washed all the rest of the oil off my hands… though it had sunk into the pores in 3-4 places.)
Orange juice (Felt good for a little while.)
Saliva (not at all effective and just gross to suck on fingers. Blech.)
Hydrocortisone cream and Ibuprofen (Hydrocortisone cream not so effective. Ibuprofen probably helped me be able to sleep.)
Vineger (Made my hands stink but I didn’t care. Don’t know that it helped much.)
I kinda gave up here because I thought I’d probably be able to sleep. Things I didn’t try because I didn’t have/make.
Tomato paste.
Aloe Vera.
Anyway, my hands still burn now… just a bit.
Oh, and the two leftover jalepenos staring at me from my counter. I’m not sure what their fate will be… mean things.
