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Cheers! Here's a garden Ratatouille my wife made in case you didn't see it. It was so good. The anaheim's have a little heat to them
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Here's a pic of our tomato plants in one of the 4' x 8' gardens and the electric fence protecting them. The plant stakes are 8 footers.
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I smoked a mess more cayennes and got 3 pints of flakes and about a half pint of cayenne powder. Had some of those flakes on pizza last night. So good!
I smoked a mess more cayennes and got 3 pints of flakes and about a half pint of cayenne powder. Had some of those flakes on pizza last night. So good!
WOW! Those tomato plants are huge! Did you prune the bottoms? They look healthy.
Had okra last night with some tbone. Okra and steak is one of my favorite combos.
Also had some home grown tomatoe:tasted almost a little chipolte and smoky. Really interesting and delicious.
Had okra last night with some tbone. Okra and steak is one of my favorite combos.
Also had some home grown tomatoe:tasted almost a little chipolte and smoky. Really interesting and delicious.
Okra and steak were MADE for each other, I too had okra and steak last night actually. One way that I've been cooking it is to just slice it, salt and pepper, and nuke it for 2-3 mins. I know that sounds like it would be terrible, but you'd be surprised. I'm trying to lose some more weight and get my cholesterol down more, so trying to avoid frying as much as I can. If you nuke the okra too long, it doesn't taste very good.
Habanero powder and flakes. The resulting product is very hot. I wore a mask and still ended up with sneezes and burning upper lip.
Dang! That's nice! No eyes burning also?! I bet the smoke would be like walking through mace.
How long did you roast the peppers?
Someone turned me on to grilling okra a few years ago and it's the only way we eat it now. Trim the stalk end and cut the larger ones so they're roughly all the same size toss in some pecan oil and salt and grill to your desired liking. Man that's good stuff. I have a SS grill topper plate to keep them from falling through the grate. I've been lucky so far that my wife hasn't realized that less okra make it to the table then left for the grill.I like these okra ideas. I have always just fried them, but was thinking about grilling them as well.
How long did you roast the peppers?
Advice Needed: I'm going to make habanero sauce tonight, which will include blending about 10 habs. Will I have a hard time getting the capsaicin out of the plastic of the blender?
I didn't. Soap and water. Everything cleaned up easily.
I managed to keep my tomatoes, squash, zukes and eggplants alive this summer in spite of the 30+ days over 100F, but with our rural coop's water they stayed barely alive. But suddenly we have rain, I'm picking 4-6 squash or zukes daily, I finally have my first green tomatoes and my Japanese eggplants are producing fruits. My cantaloupe has gone from 3 spindly vines with a couple of blossoms into a one square meter mass of vines and even a few small fruits. I don't know what it is about our water, but it will not germinate seeds and it will not encourage growth.
We have a rural co-op, they only chlorinate periodically. I used to plant all sorts of seeds-spinach, beets, radish, etc. A few seeds would come up, not many. But after the first rainstorm I'd have stuff sprouting everywhere. My hops were alive this summer, and I watered them almost daily because of the heat, but the tallest one was 3'. We got our first rain of the year last weekend and suddenly I have hops 12-14' high, covered with burrs and cones. It's been like this for about 10 years, every since the co-op's primary well went dry and we switched to a well in a different area. They swear the water is the same, and it passes all the state tests, but there's something about it that's not good for plants.I was reading something recently about germinating seeds and it said that city water contains chlorine that might result in germination failure.
I kinda doubt that. I've grown my plants from seeds with normal city water. In fact, just this last week I had jalapenos and basil germinate. But I many seeds in a packet don't come up, so there's that. Anyway, that's all I got
I noticed a few other people here are growing eggplants. Ours are doing really well and this year we wanted to try something new with them. We found the recipe below for eggplant sandwiches they were really good and are pretty easy to make.
Here's the recipe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9qmPVlc1uA
I did a taste test with the cayenne and habanero flakes last night. Tortilla chips, sour cream, tossed with lots of flakes. Man, those hab flakes taste awesome - I couldn't stop snacking.
I used hickory wood on the hab flakes and you can definately taste it. So much flavor. Smoked flakes are a whole different animal than the storebought dried red chili pepper flakes.
Most of my cherry tomatoes are tiny and very acidic.
Bad soil and/or lack of fertilizer?
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