Look at those beautiful grapes, if I could make a wine that tasted just like these grapes I would be thrilled, and look at my beautiful flower, eaten by the bad bugs. But still beautiful.
Thing Two asks that no-one notice the little drop of milk on his nose. 
He is trying so hard for a solemn serious look. 
This is where the guineas sleep at night. Which is fine but they set up a din in the night if anything strange strolls past and of course this fence is only a stones throw from the bedroom window. But if you do throw the stone to try and shut them up they scream at the stone as well. Last night they were wild with noise screeching and stamping, as the coyotes were very close. The dog howling was so loud that I went out with my torch twice to check the animals. I yelled back at the coyotes too and unlike the guineas they shut up the moment they hear me.
After all the chores are done in the morning. The dogs and I walk the fences, the dogs leaving their scent on all the corners to let the coyotes know where our boundaries are. Right at the end of the walk Ton is allowed to race to the porch and retrieve one of his toys from the tin jug where they live now. And we play.
TonTon and I practice this shot every morning, me throwing the ball then shooting him catching it and sometimes, maybe once or twice, we get the shot.
The Final Sweet Chilli Sauce.
In a blender: 3 garlic cloves, 3 seeded hot red peppers, 1/2 seeded red capsicum (sweet pepper), 1/3 cup rice vinegar, 1 cup water. After you have chopped and blended, pour into saucepan with 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 tsp salt. Bring to a rolling boil for about 5 minutes. Then thicken with 1 small tablespoon cornflour (cornstarch). Jar.
The hot sauce will keep in the fridge for quite some time. I intend to make another larger and stronger batch today. The heat from this sauce dissipates reasonably quickly so I will also freeze and dry the abundant crop of peppers and make a batch whenever I want it. It comes together very fast.
Chicken given a final hot toss in this chilli sauce with pine nuts, caramelised capsicum and kale. A very good dinner.
Good morning. Time to do the milking and feed the animals. You all have a lovely day.
celi
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66 responses to “How to make Celi’s Sweet Chilli Sauce”
That’s a wonderfully simple sauce and as i’ve just poached a chicken I may well be making that. I’ve tried to photograph Trigger doing that ( not Roy Roger’s horse but our daughter’s poodle) with no success:)
Practice, practice, practice … LUCK!
Good morning, c. Lovely photo of those grapes. Theys looks nice n sweet. Tomorrow morning is youngest son’s wedding day, so I’m off for a wax and buff like an old car. I suspect that a car scrubs up better though. Have a lovely weekend, and love to my farmy friends. xx
How exciting to have a family wedding, hope it is a great shin dig.. have fun.. c
I love the shot of your dog going for the ball mid-air. I hope the coyotes are quiet tonight so you can have an uninterrupted sleep xx
The coyotes will be around for a while now that the creeks are rising nicely and all the little dinners are starting to scurry about again! I don’t mind as long as they stay on their side of the fence.. c
The meal with the chili sauce looks absolutely delicious!!! I will try it this weekend!!! Oh, and give Ton Ton a big hug from me! He is such a sweetie, just like you!!! Happy Friday! Di
I am thrilled with the sauce as i put it in everything, even when i make grilled cheese, but on chicken is the best! c
Ah, guinea fowl. They sound like a 1000 rusty bicycles. I used to sit outside at dusk with a slingshot to keep them from roosting in the tree outside our window. Sweet memories.
What an excellent idea, i like how your mind works.. Though they certainly let me know if a strange animal comes onto the property.. c
That dog in flight is just marvelous… how you can toss a ball and then capture him jumping is amazing… I love this blog… that sauce will be made and put on chicken strips tonight, with a lovely salad… just hope I don’t get it to hot … hate the burning bubbles the next day…
I made john do the taste test!! if you don’t like it too hot just 2 peppers or even one would do.. there are so many variables when you use fresh chillies.. and you can always make the next batch hotter.. c
Yum. What a beautiful chicken dish — I just got a lot of red chiles in my farm box two days ago — maybe I’ll try your chili sauce.
Good luck! c
Good looking recipe- but I’m not very good with chilli’s – I make a similar medium hot sauce with red peppers (capsicums) which is the hottest I can take! I just went back for your ginger beer bug recipe. You can’t get ginger beer here, so I’m going to have to brave the idea of explosive bottles!
They mostly exploded because we used champagne yeast. My last batch had no casualties at all.. I can’t get ginger beer here either, it is all ginger ale which is not the same thing! c
Celi, I had always been told that good salsa/chili had to be hand minced, and that using the blender or food processor in making them was cheating… Thank you for letting me know I am not the only one! Quick, easy and delicious is awesome every time!
~ Lynda
I am a cheat.. I am thrilled that you are one too! Actually I even went so far as to try to make it with the immersion blender in the sauce pan (always trying for less dishes) and just about knocked myself out with pepper fumes, I could not breathe (laughter), imagine doing it by hand.. one day i will try with a mortar and pestle but not yet!! c
Enjoy hearing about your day and seeing your animals–so sorry you are being kept up at night. The recipe sounds great and doable — I am all for fairly simple when it comes to cooking.
Have a good morning- LouAnn
Morning Louann, I don’t mind getting up in the night to check things, it means that when i do get back into bed i will sleep! c
I bookmarked your recipe — it looked so good. and I like your attitude about sleep – you are a true glass almost full girl
I had been thinking about what to do with my abundant pepper crop and now I know. Thanks. Your dinner looks delicious.
John always grows piles of the things, never labels them and actually uses about 52 a year, even this sauce does not use that many!! So I will still have heaps of them to freeze and dry.. c
How lovely to have an abundance of peppers. I always shut my guinea fowl in the hen-house at night so they don’t keep me awake. Sometimes they won’t come in and roost in the tree that overhangs the pond and then make a noise in the morning because they can’t get into the hen-house. Pea sized brains.
I’ll say, not too bright at all, I have to train mine to go back in the barn at night, i think the peacocks chucked them out but they will not survive our winter stood out on a fence.. not at all.. morning Anne..c
Great pictures–as always…and wrote down the recipe. Husband loves sweet chili sauce so I’m going to try it!
Excellent, let me know how it works out and make adjustments anywhere you like.. after all i had to make it up in the end.. c
It is a wonderfully simple recipe Celi, it must really allow the fine ingredients to shine. I love hot and sweet together so this will be something I will make.
I do agree eva, if you have good ingredients you will have a great product.. c
Do you think if I yell at an owl in the middle of the night, it will quiet down? I swear this owl was hooting right outside my bedroom window the other night. To be honest, I woke myself fully up just to listen to it.
Lucky you.. I love it when the owls visit! c