{"id":72,"date":"2013-09-29T23:25:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T06:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-04-27T00:58:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T07:58:32","slug":"writeup-jalapeno-tomato-vodka-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynejeng.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/29\/writeup-jalapeno-tomato-vodka-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Writeup: Jalapeno Tomato Vodka Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday, September 28, 2013 – This is another cooking class cooking practice. I’ve always wanted to learn to make pasta sauces. (Not sure why. There’s no backstory here.) And this week, we made a tomato vodka pasta sauce in class. So I decided to replicate this recipe on my own.<\/p>\n

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Let’s start with the cast photo:<\/p>\n

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The original recipe called for dried chili peppers. But I couldn’t find any dried chili peppers, so I chopped up a jalapeno pepper. In retrospect, a whole jalapeno pepper was way too much. There was too much fire, and that’s after I picked out all the jalapeno pieces from my sauce. I also decided to spice things up with a bit of garlic.<\/p>\n

I got some chicken thighs and poached them in some Madeira. In retrospect, I should have used chicken breast tenders like I used last time, or thinly sliced breast filets. Sure, dark meat tastes better and is cheaper, but the white meat cuts I get are usually less irregular, so they cook more evenly.<\/p>\n

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Not pictured: Boiling the fettuccine. Everyone knows how to boil pasta, so I’m not gonna waste your bandwidth by including a picture of it.<\/p>\n

The sauce is mostly a tomato based sauce. If you look closely, you can still see some jalapeno chunks.<\/p>\n

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After simmering for a few minutes, the sauce thickened up considerably. And then I added cream:<\/p>\n

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Not pictured: Salt, black pepper, white pepper (white pepper is love), Ghirardelli square.<\/p>\n

Wait, did you just say Ghirardelli square? Yes, yes I did. I noticed that the tomato sauce had every flavor profile in it except sweet and bitter. So I tossed in a quarter of a Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate square.<\/p>\n

So how was it? The tanginess of tomatoes, a hint of sweetness from the chocolate, and a little too much fire. Definitely too much fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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