is one of my favorite songs by The Doors. Given the topic of my last post, can you guess what the link to the title of this post is?I dehydrated some peppers overnight last night. I also made some salsa (we went grocery shopping right after I wrote the post, so I got the needed ingredients). The peppers were done drying this morning. I pulled off the dried husks that remained of the stems and put the peppers one at a time into my mortar and ground them with the pestle. After all was ground, I ended up with about 1 oz. (dry measure) of 'pepper powder.' I only call it that because I can't remember the variety of peppers that I used... I blended both types of pepper together as well.
I am still fasting to this point, so I haven't even tasted the salsa. However, I wanted to see how hot the pepper powder was. Tasting the pepper wouldn't break the fast so I simply ran my finger on the pestle that had some residue on it and gave it a lick. Wow! It was pleasingly hot but not overpowering. I felt the heat from even a small taste but I didn't feel the need to guzzle a glass of water.
For the fast, I am mostly just drinking water but have had about 8 oz. of fresh squeezed orange juice - squeezed 'em myself. Of course, I also had my VidaCell this morning. Since dinner on Tuesday night, the only 'solid' food that I have had was for dinner on Wednesday and that consisted of a yogurt smoothie.
Today, I will be breaking my fast around dinner time. Oddly, I am not doing it because I am at all hungry. I just don't want to take it too far.
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