More about Ajis de Peru*

Friends confirmed to me there is another hotter pepper here in Peru, not to be found in the large chain groceries, but in the small neighborhood markets. It is called aji pinguita de mono.  It apparently is in the Jabañero range of 100,000 to 300,000 Scoville Units of piquancy.  Now the search is on to find a local store that might have these peppers.  They are not commercially grown but are harvested in the jungle.  One other web site I follow, at least weekly, is called Living in Peru.  They have an article and writeup about a restaurant in Miraflores that uses the aji de mono for select customers.

The Aji Mono peppers turn from green to red as they ripen. Could they be
the source for the Jabañero peppers of Mexico? 

RA made me some salsa once with straight Jabañeros, yellow tomatoes, and onions.  It was so hot I could not eat it but succeeded in getting her to cut it at least by 50% with more tomatoes. We need a few aji de monos for an upcoming 4th of July picnic at the president's house. It is the twice monthly FHE get together for the Norte Americano missionaries. I would like to supply some dragon wings for the event in the range of 50 to 100,000 on the Scoville Index. The dragon wings I am hoping will at last take flight and no one will ask for second helpings. Until then they will only be buffalo wings.

*Just a note also to any who read and follow this blog among our family and friends, like the small and large plates Nephi made, one set contained the history of their rulers and their kings and the everyday events of their lives. The smaller plates contained the writings of the spiritual things that occurred amongst the people. It is not appropriate that we write about the spiritual things that happen often in our lives as temple workers in the Lima Peru Temple.  You will have to come to our homecoming addresses, more than a year away, and even then we can't tell all.  They are special and we keep them close to us and on occasion share them with family. For the present we hope you will enjoy the secular events and experiences we love so much in this marvelous land of Peru. On the internet no one knows where anything goes and there is no way to call it back once it is posted.