Disturbing Thoughts

This one involves tons of chopping and takes about an hour no cooking involved though just mince the peppers mix everything together and chill covered in a bowl or some Tupperware (maybe less if you have one of those chopping machines like that hooker puncher Vince Offer sells).

Ingredients:

bell peppers–one of each color green, yellow, orange, and red, de-seeded.

Cubano peppers–two of them, de-seeded

Onion–one large Walla Walla or two medium yellow

Celery–3 to 4 stalks

Parsley–4 ounces chopped fresh or 2 ounces dry

Salt–a teaspoon

Sugar–1/2 a cup

Garlic powder–a tablespoon

lemon juice–1/4 cup

Peanut oil–1/4 cup (or any light oil you prefer to substitute, I don’t recommend Olive oil though since it can severely overpower the flavor of the relish)

Vinagar–1/2 cup.

Chop all of your vegetables to bits measuring no more than 1/4 of an inch or less throw in a mixing bowl and add the rest of the ingredients mixing everything thoroughly and cover or transfer to a plastic container.  It tastes great when fresh but taste very good later too and will last a couple months (based on estimates of my oldest batch that didn’t kill me or go moldy) in the fridge as the relish begins to pickle in the vinegar.

This recipe makes approximately under a half of a gallon and works with corn chips as a dip, or over rice with Italian breadcrumbs, a kick for mixing into egg salad, or add diced tomatoes and convert it into a regular salsa.

My latest contribution to the writing world is a short story about a future society dedicated to protecting the privacy and individual liberties of its citizens so much so that it’s political system is compulsory–if you are elected your rights are temporarily suspended.  A reversal of the Orwellian nightmare as it were.  A society where the public is Big Brother and the government is kept under the watchful eye of its people while preserving the peoples freedoms as the fourth check in the republics system of checks and balances–the full story can be found on Yahoo Voices(formerly Associated Content) here: http://voices.yahoo.com/article/9256711/nicianocracy-10732399.html?cat=44

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“The life of a politician was an efficient one, a public one, but a lonely one, always under the watchful eye of the nations citizens as laws were written and argued on before votes to pass or fail were announced. While the citizens could roam freely with reasonable expectations of privacy the offices and temporary homes of these representatives were under direct public surveillance 24/7. There were always citizens watching every politicians move at any time of day as a reality TV show. Societal life had become a reversal of Orwellian prophecy.”

If you liked the sample go on ahead and read the rest of the story on Yahoo Voices.