Mostly Habanero

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The recipe for my homemade chilli sauce is not hugely complicated. Chillies, a bit of olive oil, a splash of vinegar and a few coriander leaves. Blitz it in the food processor. Stick it in a jar.

But I’ve run out of my homemade chilli sauce. The jar is empty.

So when I was passing the chilli section in Woolies this morning I grabbed a couple of bags of their mixed chillies, so that I could make some more.

It doesn’t really matter what chillies I put in my homemade chilli sauce, and a bit of everything is the best way forward, so the mixed chilli packs are great. Some African Birdseye, a few Jalapenos, perhaps some Serrano, and then maybe the odd Habanero. It’s worked flawlessly for years now.

It was only when I got home and turned over the packets, thus allowing me to see the actual goods instead of the label, that I realised that the mixed chilli bags contained mostly Habanero. In fact, one of the bags was almost exclusively Habanero.

It’s on me. I’m not blaming anyone else. I was in a bit of a hurry and I ignored the basic principle of due diligence. And now I have to face the consequences of my actions.

Because this batch is going to be a little hotter than my recent efforts. But that’s not going to be a problem as long as I remember each time I use it.

Although, I think that I will always remember, if I don’t remember just once.

If you see what I mean.

We’re coming to the conclusion…

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Is it just us – and, to be fair, those surrounding us – who are coming to the conclusion that 2025 is actually a bit crap?

Of course, all years have their ups and their downs, but this one does seem to be continually choosing the crappy option each and every time it gets the chance.

I don’t want to go into details, because that wouldn’t do any good anyway, but there have been quite a lot of things that just could have gone much better. And a seemingly equal number that would have been much better if they just hadn’t happened.

Several examples of each have been mentioned on here.

I try hard to be a glass half full kind of guy, but it’s getting more and more difficult to repeatedly try and ignore the apparent vendetta that 2025 clearly has against us.

Even the simplest things seem to have it in for us.

And just when I thought that it might get better in the second half of the year: a fresh start and all that…

WWIII is about to enter the chat.

Thanks, Donald.

Still, other than those issues (which unfortunately is just about everything), we’re just about surviving.

Onward and upward…

Close one

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Sorry for the lack of updates today. I almost forgot to blog. That would have been a bit of a disaster.

Lots on from a family point of view. It’s been busy and a bit stressful.

All went well, though.

And I’ll be back tomorrow with a proper post.

T&Cs do apply, obviously

200 up

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I added a couple more tracks to my Playlist For A Chilled Braai playlist on Spotify this week, and those tracks upped the number of total tracks on said playlist to 200. Fourteen hours and forty-one minutes of musical accompaniment to your braai, and just the right mix of background and gently upbeat tracks – and just a few old skool memories thrown in – to make your braai’ing experience absolutely perfect.

And no, of course you don’t have to listen to it all at once, but the sheer amount of music on there means that you get to hear something different each time you log in and light up. So hit the save button above, click on shuffle on your device of choice, and have a great evening cooking oor die kole.

You can click through here if you can’t use the graphic above, and you can click through here to see all my other Spotify playlists, should you want to enjoy some different genres and go back in time ever so slightly*.

* Musically, I mean. I haven’t invented a time machine or anything.