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Diane made a big pot of red beans and rice and left it for me.
Being the trusting type I dove in with a big bowl full. Yeoooow that stuff is so hot my head is sweating, nose running and eyes watering. I can't feel my tongue any more and my ears hurt.
We grow our own peppers and this year I got about 5 kinds. Now that I can see again ..I can see she put in a couple of habanero peppers, along with the cherry peppers and Jalapenos.
Do you think this counts as abuse? anyone else growing peppers?
ernie
[ September 13, 2007, 07:39 PM: Message edited by: E. Balch ]
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Yes Ernie I can relate.. We have our SALSA Garden.
We grow all our mixings (except the onions) for Fresh chunky salsa. (Which I am addicted too.)
Was making a batch a few weeks ago and I grab what I thought was a sweet banana and just started munching on it. Whoooo All of a sudden I was on fire. Well to find out I grabbed a Thia Chile that was mixed in with the bananas. Took about 30 minutes and 1/2 gallon of milk till I stopped crying.
Also learned the hard way is you don't wipe your eyes when making salsa.
We are growing 5 or 6 versions also.. I know we have. Habanero, Jalapeno, Banana, Thia, and some little Red thing that will kill you. I think its a Savina or something like that. Plus many Bell & Cherry Peppers.
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The spicier the better for me! Well with the exception of habeneros. I had to give up gardening this year due to my compressed discs but I still love the freshness of good garden food; yummmm.. there's nothing like it; well, I guess I'll enjoy everyone else's this year! I can still plant and water, just no digging. Ernie, did you by anyway land in the doghouse over something? Or maybe Diane just is tougher and didn't notice to be easy on ya?!!! lol... Send some of that rice this way! PS. I just had some gumbo in the Big Easy last weekend and expected it to be a bit spicier. I had two kinds; one with a lot of liquid and one like a chowder; both were my favorites; but the dirty rice was better than any I've had up north. I can't wait to make it now that I'm back.
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If you got into anything containing Habaneros, you are in trouble.They were for a long time considered the hottest peppers on the planet. Now, just in the past couple weeks, I read about a pepper from India that is hotter; but of course I cant' remember the name.
I like spicy food; but once it gets beyond a certain point, it goes beyond enhancing the flavor and just overpowers it. Too hot is too hot!!!
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yes we grow peppers too...our favorite is one called "bishops Crown" a medium hot pepper that is scarlet red when ripe but can be eaten all the way tru the green stage...it is shaped like an inverted bishops hat and nice moderate heat with a slight taste of a bell pepper.
My wife started 250 plants in her greenhouse for a friend that cross breeds them (some really weird stuff here)we kept some Habineros crossed with a jalapeno they are hotter than hell with no recognizable shape.
He also has a banana pepper crossed with a bell thats interesting.
Maybe we should get a pepper seed exchange going for the spring planting...let me know if your interested.
My wife would have to handle this (I try not to volenteer her for anything) but she enjoys seed exchanges so maybe she'll do it...me? I'm horticulturally challenged.
[ September 14, 2007, 10:27 AM: Message edited by: Monte Jumper ]
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Hollor if you want the seed exchange.. Our peppers are nothing special though. There might be a Cucumber/Pepper mix since we did a booboo and planted some cucumber plants next to some peppers so we have some spicey cucumbers.
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I had a friend years ago who had a little take out Mexican place next door to a party bar, and he stayed open late for the post-closing time crowd. Every so often some fool would come in drunk and start bragging to his friends that "nothing was too hot" and my friend would offer him a nice fresh habanero or scotch bonnet - which, of course, being macho, bragging drunks, they'd eat the damn thing, or try to.
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Next time you find yourself at the "Rib Fest" in Downtown Minneapolis....walk over to the booth that has "Thermonuclear" sauce....I don't know how they do it but it's about 3 - 4 times hotter than Habaneros (they have a heat unit scale on their booth). I've tried it a couple of times. This stuff is so hot you won't be able to even lick the excess sauce off your fingers. Don't learn the hard way like me...have something to drink before you start eating it! I've eaten raw Habaneros and they just don't hold a candle to this stuff!
It has about an hour and a half hang time and it'll make your ears ring and turn you a funny shade of green just for fun.....MMmmmmmm
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Following Monte's lead, Diane is saving the pepper seeds. Maybe we can grow something new next year. Having all these different peppers close together they must have cross pollinated!
I wonder just what we will get.
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I had this hot sauce called Ass in hell. I'm not that big a fan of Super burn your mouth until you fall out type of spicy. I like mild spicy but anyway. I had this bottle of "ass in Hell" which I considered the hottest hot sauce I ever tried And had everyone I knew like DAMN THAT"S THE HOTTEST HOT SAUCE I EVER TRIED, so this 15 year old kid Lamar that used to live across from me was like , hey, I'll drink that whole bottle for $10. Well, needless to say, I gladly obliged and he drank the whole bottle. Looked at me smiling and asked if I had any more, then he started to shake it out to get the last few drops...It was pretty funny. He earned his $10.
I like it HOT! Dave's Insanity and Da Bomb use to be in the top 5 of hot sauces, but a few years back a new sauce came on the market "The Source" at a cost of aprox. $100 for the usually size bottle!
My worst memory of TOO Hot was when my friends gave me a bottle of "Da Bomb" during a dinner out and told me to try it! Knowing that it was hot, but that I could handle the heat, I spread some on my finger. Well, I broke out into a sweat to everyone's enjoyment, but that is not the end of the story.
When my wife and I left the resturant, she wanted to do some shopping at Sam's Club. Once inside, I told her I would catch up with her and went to the men's room. ............. Since she drove her car that night, when I caught up with her, I asked for the keys and told her I would meet her outside. She laughed a little and thought the hot sauce had gotten to me. She was right, but wrong at the same time!
When she finally came outside, she found me in the passenger's seat with my coat on my lap! Yep, you got it! I had forgotten about the hot sauce on my finger and was holding several wet paper towels on my (Fill In)!! Hurt for several hours!
I still love the heat, and wear a red chili necklace most of the time, but watch wear and what I touch!
I only grew jalapenos and yellow banana peppers this year, but would enjoy a seed exchange!
SC
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I agree. I like "refreshing" hot. Banana peppers, hot cherry peppers, jalapeños (& an ice cold Dos Equis), but anything hotter is just nuts. I can't stand these rotten tasting hot sauces. If I'm at a Mexican restaurant & they have homemade sauce, I'm game, but I'll have the green one!
Hmmm...Mexican food...Now I'm hungry...
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I buy Daves insanity sauce! I'm not crazy enough to eat it anymore but it has its uses.
I mix it with water and spray the garden with it. The rabbits and woodchuck won't touch plants that have been sprayed. Insects and little broccli worms don't like it much either.
It also convinced the dog not to chew on the oak stairs.
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Had a large garden several years ago, grew around 250 Thi Dragon pepper plants, dried and crushed them, absoutley the best pepper I have ever had, not as redicucles as harbornero's.
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My late husband was a Harley enthusiast and his friends had an afternoon party which we attended. It was just about 4 guys and myself and fiance (we were just lovepups then!).
Well, no one knew I loved jalepeno peppers and they were having a contest to see who could eat the most. Well, now, I'm not bragging, but jalpenos do my body good! It's great for muscle problems and my stomach has always been able to tolerate them. I must have had about 20 of them with no problem the next day. I guess I impressed my date that day!
here's a link to some info about the benefits of peppers; it's great for decreasing my inflammation, but also for triglycerides and blood pressure, but what amazed me is the platelet aggregation which I needed during my delivery of my last child. I don't know if I would have gotten indigestion during the pregnancy from them, but now I eat a lot of cayenne.
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Don't know if there are any Indian food lovers on here but this is a reciper for Lime pickle it'll blow your socks off,
Lime Pickle 6 green limes 1 inch piece root ginger, sliced 1 tbsp white vinegar 10 Green Finger Chillies sliced 2 tbsp sugar 1 tbsp paprika 1 tsp garam masala 1 tsp cumin seeds 2 cloves garlic, sliced 2 tsp salt 2 tbsp oil
Quarter the limes. Place in a large jar with 1 tsp of salt and seal. Mix the salt up by shaking then leave in a sunny spot for 3-4 days. Move the jar round regularly. Add the rest of the salt to the jar, mix, and leave for 1 month in the sun. Rotate the jar every day. Heat some oil in a pan and cook the ginger till golden. Now add the vinegar, limes and lime juice from the jar. Mix well and cook for about 5 minutes. Add the spices, garlic and chillies, and cook for a further 3 minutes. Store in sterilised jars and keep in the fridge for up to 1 month.
The wifes friend gave us this recipe she is from Sri Lanka, its great with all sorts of food I like it with really strong cheddar cheese in a sandwich.
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