Topic: Yet more Chillies!!!

[sandersj89]

These are Purple Dragon:



Start off purple turn green and then red. Fairly hot small chillie, 3 bags of chillies from each plant so prolific.

These are Halapeno, ripening from green to red but no real differance in heat. They are fairly mild in my book.



Jerry

[Mrs Ava]

Fabulous!  What are you going to do with them all??

[sandersj89]

We eat a lot of chillies. We have this recipie once a week on average I expect.

Heat some good olive oil in a pan and add 4 to 6 cloves of crushed garlic and 4 or 6 de-seeded chopped chillies.

Gently simmer for 10 mins to infuse the oil, add some home grown oven dried tomatoes and some fresh tomatoes if you have them. A tea spoonful of tomato chutney and simmer for anoth 10 mins stiring from time to time.

Meanwhile cook some spaghetti and drain. Pour the chillie/tomato mix over the lot and sprinkle with lots of fresh parmesan cheese. Eat pronto.

Adjust the chillies to taste. Very yummy and very healthy!

Jerry

[ina]

Ohhhhhhhh, sounds great. I doubt I could do this using 6 of my chilies, way too hot. I have to look up if cayenne are hotter than jalapeno.

They look so perfect and pretty. Very nice picture, something for a puzzle hehehe?

[sandersj89]

A puzzle is a great idea, might just do that! The picture also makes quite a good wall paper!

Jerry

[tim]

Ina - usually rated the same.

Jerry - any idea why lovely smooth Jalapenos get 'cracks' in them??

We only riped 1/3 of ours in the bags. Just hope they will continue, hanging in a south facing 'house. = Tim

[sandersj89]

Tim

Not sure, as this is the first year they have suffered. Does not effect eating/taste quality and these are frozen for future use so should not be a problem.

My thoughts are they suffered some moisture stress at a critical time, probably while we were at my parents farm in August running the place while my folks took a holiday. We left the home and garden in the care of a neighbour and he is not 100% gardening reliable!

Jerry

[tim]

Just wondered - it annoys me to grow someting so perfect, only to have it blemished!

Yes - no affect on the eating quality. = Tim