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[drumstick diva]

Okay guys, I'm still around but, seemed to have slept through most of Friday & Saturday, even I don't know what's with that. Maybe because our weather got temporarily cooler and just heaven to sleep in. I hope to put a stop to the nap-a-thon today, she writes planning to go back to bed as soon as I finish here.

 

[chickadoodles]

Okay guys, I'm still around but, seemed to have slept through most of Friday & Saturday, even I don't know what's with that. Maybe because our weather got temporarily cooler and just heaven to sleep in. I hope to put a stop to the nap-a-thon today, she writes planning to go back to bed as soon as I finish here.

You may need some sunshine Diva. It helps with that sleep-a-thon mojo.

 

[gpeters3]

Go here to see what peppers are hotter:

http://ushotstuff.com/Heat.Scale.htm

My wife is Mexican so we grow peppers when we want to can some salsa and pickled peppers for nachos. In one season we can enough for several years so i dont even plant every year. She cant even taste it if its not mostly habenero. Next time i might surprise her with some of those someone mentioned.

My neighbor is Mexican as well and we share sometimes. He tries to find hot ones but our ground isnt good for heat so we struggle to get any heat (in their opinion). I like the pickled jalepeno with onion and yellow hot but cant handle the really hot ones. We were growing picins in the house but they finally got too dry and passed away because she relies on me to water everything.

A friend of ours has a large fish pond next to her garden and waters the garden from it. She always has huge jalepenos because she says her water is full of fish poop

Lately we have been having pretty good, large fruit crops, i think because we are using chicken poop for fertilizer and straw for humus.

 

[Beer can]

Jalapenos are my favorite, pickled, or stuffed with sour cream, sharp cheese and cream cheese blend, topped with bacon, on the grill. Pablanos are good that way also.
Love sliced fresh jalapenos in a salad, green pepper flavor with a kick.
I don't care much for habeneros funky sweet flavor, only for their extra heat. Chili or rice I'd rather use cayenne.
The only way I can get some decent heat in pickled eggs though is with habeneros. Made a couple colorful jars with red and orange habeneros and green serranos, sliced onion and chopped garlic. Mmmm. :-D

 

[Bunnylady]

I just can't handle the heat, literally. My husband grew several kinds of hot peppers a few years ago. I don't know if it's our soil or if it was just the weather that year or what, but if I handled them, I wound up with chemical burns on my hands. Just slicing them got rough - there was enough capsaicin in the air to make me cough. I don't mind a little burn, but that's not fun!

 

[Beer can]

I use rubber gloves when slicing peppers. I wear contacts. Even if I slice them up bare handed in the morning to put them in a omlet wash my hands multiple times, put my contacts in before I go to work in the afternoon...boy my eyes burn! Gloves are a must.

 

[casportpony]

Jalapenos are my favorite, pickled, or stuffed with sour cream, sharp cheese and cream cheese blend, topped with bacon, on the grill. Pablanos are good that way also.
Love sliced fresh jalapenos in a salad, green pepper flavor with a kick.
I don't care much for habeneros funky sweet flavor, only for their extra heat. Chili or rice I'd rather use cayenne.
The only way I can get some decent heat in pickled eggs though is with habeneros. Made a couple colorful jars with red and orange habeneros and green serranos, sliced onion and chopped garlic. Mmmm. :-D

I love peppers stuffed with cheese, and your eggs look delicious!

-Kathy

 

[perchie.girl]

I love the taste of hot peppers but recently I have developed an allergy.... to certain types of pepper.... ones with a lot of oil in them. I can eat Jalepenos roasted in poppers... Or pickled.... but fresh causes me issues....

Same goes now that I think of it for most green hot peppers. The dried Chilis they use in Asian food are fine if they use them whole and I can pick them out... But pepper flakes cause me issues.... And the chili oil is the worst....

the issues.... Sever swelling on my tongue and prolonged pain.... inside of my mouth gets raw too. This is allergy not the fact that I am unaccustomed to eat ing hot thing.s

Anything horse radish related I am good to go... Wasabi or horseradish sauce for meat.

Oh and another thing... My reaction is mitigated if I have a starch to eat with the heat or milk... helps move the oils out of your mouth.... but I still have the reaction.

deb

 

[Athaid]

I use rubber gloves when slicing peppers. I wear contacts. Even if I slice them up bare handed in the morning to put them in a omlet wash my hands multiple times, put my contacts in before I go to work in the afternoon...boy my eyes burn! Gloves are a must.

I got hot sauce in my eyes once. You ever put your contacts in inside out? Now that's painful.

 

[perchie.girl]

My dad used to eat Jalepenios then give my mom a big wet slobbery kiss.... The cussing and the punching that insued was priceless.

deb