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Just dropped in to say hi. I really like growing things with my favorite being hot peppers. Now its cold but I am already getting ready for some growing next year. I just got 8 different varieties of hot pepper seeds and will be getting some strange and unusual tomato plant seeds soon.
I also do some house plants, perrenials, roses and more.

Looking forward to sharing some gardening tips with y'all :)

Here are some peppers I canned recently



These jars should be nuclear!


Anyone dare me to eat this Habenero? I didnt eat it believe me ;)

Welcome Brian. You will be able to plant your pepper seeds for starts soon. Meanwhile those are very pretty jars. I think I would keep them around just for decoration.

Thanks Tina and yeah I almost hate to open them but I have to. I really like hot and spicy foods LOL. I just hope I have enough to last until next year. I already have started a few seeds to grow indoors.

Hey Brian,, welcome to the Garden Helper,,,,,,,,
WOW those peppers look Great!!!!!!!!!! Awwwwwwww Come on you should have eaten it,,,,,, that way you could tell us how hot they realllllllly are,, A co worker grows them as well .. he dries them and uses them in his salads,, ,

Looking forward to getting to know you,,,,,,,

From one who lives in the Longhorn State,,,

Thanks Angelblossom.
I assure you they are like nuclear hot! I had one in my soup tonight and it lit me up pretty good.

Good to meet you! I used to love in the Longhorn State years ago but live in Mizzou now.

Take Care,

B

Hi Brian, great pics, and great looking peppers.
I grow the long green ones and small red birds eye down here- we use the green for Thai, and the red for Indian and stuff like tacos. How do you use them mostly- it sounds like in everything :)

Have to agree, BrianS, hot food is the best. Would have liked to see you eat that pepper!

I am gradually learning how to cook good Indian food, seeing as some of our best friends are Indian. Also my boss is from Sri Lanka, and he sometimes likes to try foods on me to see if I'll be able to handle it!

Do you have any good hot recipes to post?

I pickle and freeze them for later use. I primarily use either the pickle juice or even put a whole pepper in what ever I am cooking such as chilli, tacos, beans etc etc.

Yeah when I get home I'll dig up some of my salsa recipes. Keep in mind I dont always do exactly the way the recipe says, I am known to add this and that at times

Stevie, if you want to impress the boss go to a nursery and see if you can get a Murraya Konigi ( I think this spelling is correct), a Curry Leaf plant..if not the asian store will have them dried
Then find a good asian grocer or health-food store and grab a packet of Ceylon or Roasted curry powder..and some Jaggery ( palm sugar) if they have it.
Chop up a kilo or so of stewing steak, some hot red chillies, four or five curry leaves, green ginger, garlic and onions, put it all in a big pot, add a little oil ( not olive, palm oil or gee is good)fry it for a minute or two, add some water and diced tomatoes, and cook until the beef is tender- them add two teaspoons of grated jaggery or brown sugar, ground black pepper, salt, and a tablespoon of brown vinigar. Serve it with plain steamed rice ( not Basmati)and some cucumbers in yoghurt ( I use Jalna, not the low-fat variety)
If he waggles his head and says it's ""Very, very good"" - and he's gonna waggle his head anyway, as you know- put your hand out for a raise :)

welcome BrianS!

Okay, I will give that one a try- on ourselves first . I'm always looking for good new recipes. Below is a link to a great recipe I found the other day. It's not really hot the way it's described, but you could make it hot if you want- and a little less sweet. It gets the tick of approval from the younger members of the family.

Brian, I will look forward to your recipes too. I do the same as you; i don't like following recipes too closely, it's too much like work!


http://anaustraliankitchen.blogspot.com/2007/07/syrian-chicken.html

Stevie, that one I learned from my landlady in Mt Lavinnia, Colombo, about 35 years ago, and just as you say it's a pinch of this and a handfull of that which creates the best dishes.
Sri Lankan dishes deserve to be more well known in the Western world- it combines the very best aspects of the cooking of the four main invading races, Indian, Portuguse, Dutch and British.

You are right, I love their food. What did the British bring to Sri Lanka- fish and chips? :wink: I know what they would have got from there- the world's best tea. Oh, yeah, and they taught them how to play cricket. Pretty well, too.

I feel for our friends up in QLD; they are getting a frightful battering. Hope these storms will stop soon.

Awesome!

I think there are some recipes over on the pepper thread. I know I posted one there for escabeche.

Welcome!

Brian S.----Welcome

Sad to see the destruction and loss of life in Qld...It seemed that we were in for a dose of the same violent storms last night- there were huge thunderheads and violent lightning at sunset, but they went around us mostly to the North.
I hate to gloat over someone else's misfortune, Stevie, but with all this rain I've got the best crop of vegetables in years.

Every cloud has a silver lining.....