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Hot sauce

Saar Drimer — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:24:40 +0000

I was left with a bunch of semi-dry lovely hot peppers from the summer/autumn yield. Some I cut up and put in olive oil for “chili oil”, and others I used to experiment with making my own hot sauce. After some research, the recipe shown in this video appealed to my senses — I particularly liked the sherry twist to quickly add that aging flavor. Shopping for distilled vinegar, I discovered sherry vinegar and thought that this could do the trick, combining both ingredients. I blended a few peppers, sherry vinegar, garlic, and salt and the result is pretty good; very hot. Fresh, there was a slight aftertaste that I did not particularly like, but it might be the amount of vinegar — I usually don’t like hot sauces to taste too vinegary (like Tabasco, and unlike my favorite sauce, Cholula). It might be the garlic, though; I need to experiment more.

This simple sauce is not far off from what you can get in a bottle at a supermarket, but it’s cheap, quick to prepare, and doesn’t have the typical additives. Also, one can tweak the ingredients according to taste.

Box of nails

Saar Drimer — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:47:43 +0000

Box of nails

Party of squares

Saar Drimer — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:21:50 +0000

Party of squares

My first lesson in sales

Saar Drimer — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:23:37 +0000

Thirty years ago, I was about six years old; I lived in Netanya, Israel; my best buddy was named Teddy; the currency was the Old Israeli Shekel; and, together with Teddy, I found a large stack of last week’s TV-guide that went (new) for a single Shekel. Teddy and I figured that since these are almost new we could still easily resell them for a bargain half a Shekel each, the street value of a popsicle.

Under our building in Ha’Galil Street there was a gap in the hedges and a nice wide stone fence where we could set up shop and display the merchandise. People passed uninterested for a while and then we got our first customer — an old man. This old man gave us half a Shekel and a bit of wisdom: an explanation why people aren’t going to pay for last week’s TV schedule, news, and gossip. We understood. We folded.

Monsters

Saar Drimer — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:43:38 +0000

Monsters

Wiggle

Saar Drimer — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:51:48 +0000

If the creators of Hangover 3 use this one as a tattoo, I’m going to go after them with all I’ve got.

Wiggle

Trees

Saar Drimer — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:39:50 +0000

Yes, that’s intentional.

Trees

Fossil

Saar Drimer — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:00:41 +0000

This one took a while, and ended up much like a skeletal structure. Also looks like a helmet, which reminds me of the film I watched last night, Senna (though this was drawn before that).

Fossil helmet

Squared

Saar Drimer — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:11:54 +0000

Squared

Jellyfish

Saar Drimer — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:05:11 +0000

Once upon a time in the Mediterranean sea, I had to flip out of a small boat, in scuba gear, into a large school of jellyfish. I was wearing a half-suit and one caught the back of my knee. But they didn’t look anything like this:

Jellyfish on steroids