Last week at a tapas place we had the padron peppers. You usually maybe get one hot one in the plateful, sometimes not even that. This time they were all extremely fiery.
Or someone had bought up green chillies by mistake.
There was a time when I was staying with my in-laws-to-be and my MILTB was making chili con carne from a recipe. She glanced dismissively at it and said, "Not enough chili, of course... wait a minute, three tablespoons sounds all right."
That meal was the one and only time when I literally went and stuck my tongue under the cold water tap.
We looked at the recipe again.
Tomato puree: 3 tablespoons Chili powder: half a teaspoonful.
I can totally see myself purposefully making a recipe that really did call for three tablespoons of chili powder! I wouldn't feed it to my mom or my eighteen-month-old son, and I'd serve it with rice or mix yogurt in or something, but it's a totally plausible amount to me.
On the other hand, I can't imagine comfortably eating a dish where I'd 18-tupled the amount of chili powder. Yikes.
I have a very high tolerance for chili, but three tablespoons is three little drums of chili, and I wouldn't normally use more than one or possibly one and a half when cooking for three people.
Possibly the chili powder I use is less potent? The smallest container I can buy is a little more than 4 tablespoons, and while I wouldn't use three-quarters of a container in one dish if I weren't following a recipe that instructed me to do so, I've definitely used half of one of those before.
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Date: 2013-08-13 12:43 pm (UTC)Or someone had bought up green chillies by mistake.
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Date: 2013-08-13 03:15 pm (UTC)That meal was the one and only time when I literally went and stuck my tongue under the cold water tap.
We looked at the recipe again.
Tomato puree: 3 tablespoons
Chili powder: half a teaspoonful.
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Date: 2013-08-13 06:03 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I can't imagine comfortably eating a dish where I'd 18-tupled the amount of chili powder. Yikes.
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Date: 2013-08-13 09:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-08-14 01:17 pm (UTC)