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- Pepper Sauce
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- Roast 6-8 large red bell peppers by placing them under your broiler
- until completely black and charred. Place them in a brown paper bag
- for a couple of minutes, then remove them one by one, rub off the black
- charred skin. Seed and tear into a few pieces. If possible, save the
- juices that come out of the peppers.
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- Bake 3 HEADS - around 30 CLOVES - of garlic at 350 degrees F for almost
- an hour, until the cloves are soft and mushy, and the skins peel off
- really easily. The garlic gets really mellow when you bake it this long.
- It's better to overbake it, though.
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- These two steps can be done in advance; keep the peppers and garlic in
- containers in the fridge for a few days.
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- Put half the peppers and all the garlic in the blender with a 8 oz. of
- canned crushed tomatoes or 2 roasted tomatoes. Liquefy. Add the remaining
- peppers. Season with red wine or basalmic vinegar, salt, pepper and cayenne.
- Whir for a few seconds more, and make sure the garlic is evenly distributed
- throughout your sauce.
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- This can be frozen easily. It's absolutely ambrosial on pasta, especially
- since tomatoes are so utterly pathetic this time of year. It's also
- quite tasty on crostini, orange roughy, grilled eggplant...anything!
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