Post by hushnel on Nov 30, 2020 16:44:56 GMT -5
Visiting my brother in Nashville a few years back he was cutting up a bunch of jalapeño peppers for supper. What was left over he just added to his grocery store jar of jalapeños slices. Kind of a never ending jar of peppers ready to use.
I’ve done the same thing with chopped jalapeños. A while back I started adding habaneros to the mix using it as a topping for the homemade corn tortillas I’ve been perfecting. Even made a traditional tortilla press to add authenticity to the process.
I was picking up a few groceries today and they had Carolina and Ghost peppers in the fresh vegetable section. I’ve heard of them, may have even had them dining at Mexican restaurants over the years. I did taste them, though very small samples to get the flavor. I chopped up three of each and added them to the jar of chopped peppers mentioned above. Put it all together and hit with the immersion blender. The peppers are in apple cider vinegar. Jeez, you almost need a mask doing this. This is some hot stuff, a friend and I are visiting Hatch New Mexico on our up-coming tour of the south west.
I guess you get used to the heat, and developed the ability to actually taste the peppers. I can remember when the Jamaican Scotch Bonnet was almost painfully consumed, not much difference between them and the Habanero. A friend and coworker, native of Nicaragua, brought back a very tiny pepper from home. It was no longer than 1/4”. I went to pick it up and eat it whole and he stopped me. He sliced off the tip no thicker than a business card and nearly wiped out my palette. I can’t recall the peppers name, he told me they were also called Gringo Killers.
Most people I know have zero interest in hot spices, I really enjoy the flavor and the heat, though I don’t know anyone that shares that enjoyment, though I know they are out there.
Just over Thanksgiving my nephew’s girlfriend and her mother shared the evening with us at my sisters home in Miami. She’s from Thailand, her daughter was born here and makes good money modeling. Her mom and I talked about peppers, they have some potent peppers in her home land. Peppers evolved in South America and made their way to Central America between 5200-3400 B.C. They evolved the capsicum to keep mammals from consuming them, only the birds would eat them then distribute the seeds at greater distances. I still don’t totally get evolution. Seems almost a conscious plan “o)
I’ve done the same thing with chopped jalapeños. A while back I started adding habaneros to the mix using it as a topping for the homemade corn tortillas I’ve been perfecting. Even made a traditional tortilla press to add authenticity to the process.
I was picking up a few groceries today and they had Carolina and Ghost peppers in the fresh vegetable section. I’ve heard of them, may have even had them dining at Mexican restaurants over the years. I did taste them, though very small samples to get the flavor. I chopped up three of each and added them to the jar of chopped peppers mentioned above. Put it all together and hit with the immersion blender. The peppers are in apple cider vinegar. Jeez, you almost need a mask doing this. This is some hot stuff, a friend and I are visiting Hatch New Mexico on our up-coming tour of the south west.
I guess you get used to the heat, and developed the ability to actually taste the peppers. I can remember when the Jamaican Scotch Bonnet was almost painfully consumed, not much difference between them and the Habanero. A friend and coworker, native of Nicaragua, brought back a very tiny pepper from home. It was no longer than 1/4”. I went to pick it up and eat it whole and he stopped me. He sliced off the tip no thicker than a business card and nearly wiped out my palette. I can’t recall the peppers name, he told me they were also called Gringo Killers.
Most people I know have zero interest in hot spices, I really enjoy the flavor and the heat, though I don’t know anyone that shares that enjoyment, though I know they are out there.
Just over Thanksgiving my nephew’s girlfriend and her mother shared the evening with us at my sisters home in Miami. She’s from Thailand, her daughter was born here and makes good money modeling. Her mom and I talked about peppers, they have some potent peppers in her home land. Peppers evolved in South America and made their way to Central America between 5200-3400 B.C. They evolved the capsicum to keep mammals from consuming them, only the birds would eat them then distribute the seeds at greater distances. I still don’t totally get evolution. Seems almost a conscious plan “o)
