Did you grow the peppers?
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Did you grow the peppers?
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No---I'm afraid my vegetable gardening is a thing of the past. I used to grow very hot habaneros, I would select the seeds from the "best of crop" for the next years planting.
Since then I have relied mostly on a large Asian Market about 20 miles away---but now for the past two years I have been getting them from my Amish Green Grocer. A crop I would never have expected but very happy to find. My wife is going to stop today and make another "buy". I just spoke to her and told her to get all the habaneros they have (up to 10 pints) plus a good selection of the rest of the offerings.
Amish (and) Old Order Mennonites have a very bland diet (and thus palate). Thus I did not expect this. They began with cherry and jalapeños peppers and now progressed upward. Trust an Amish man to respond to any perceived market opportunity.
They also raise poblanos and hot Hungarian peppers.
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Eric is probably too reticent to ask, but I bet he would give you an address to send a sample of the hot stuff. As for me, I trust your comments.
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I'd be happy to do that
As an update, I spoke to my wife who is almost home and she made a 10 pint score on the habaneros----what a gal
It just occurred to me----they feed produce that is past prime to the pigs----I have to wonder what the pigs might think of the hot peppers
I can tell you unequivocally that Guernsey bulls do not take kindly to hot stuff---our friend Billy would be most impressed by the "bull roar" that follows a little trip on the hot side
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
one of my Aussies has taken a liking to my Habaneros...who knew
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I just loaded the dehydrator up for another run---nine pints of habaneros and a qt. of cayenne
That gives me one pint of fresh habaneros to enjoy with my eggs
I might have to make another buy next week
...and my latest Amazon scores from this thread have now shown up:
So much to try---so little time
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I got to wondering what kind of peppers were used to make the ubiquitous “cracked red pepper” found in every pizza joint and which is used at the table to spice up many dishes and is increasing called for in recipes. What I found was that cayenne peppers dried then crushed is most often the predominate pepper used, but often a variety of other peppers are added. The articles I accessed went on to say the vast majority of drying was artificially done in large dryers, but some specialty brands dried the peppers naturally in the sun, which was said to produce flavor beyond just heat.
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