adobo sauce (thing)

This is a sauce for chipotle chiles. It can be added to soups, used as a fiery hot salsa, put on anything from eggs to rice to mashed potatoes or mashed sweet potatoes.

You could use:

• about 10 dried chipotle, stemmed but not seeded, chopped
• roughly diced white onion
• about a 1/4 cup of cider or wine vinegar
• as much garlic as you like or more
• either fresh diced plum tomatoes(with skin and seeds) or even tinned tomatoes
• kosher or sea salt, fresh black pepper
• water or red wine to cover

Just put everything to together in a pan, bring to a boil, then reduce and cover for an hour to an hour and a half. You could puree this if you wanted to.
Of course, the adobo sauce will only be enriched by adding some dried oregano or sage.