I have a well-stocked bar. I enjoy a drink after dinner or watching a hockey game on TV, but I soon get bored with my choices. So I decided to try my hand at making infused liquor. For Christmas a…
Habanero Pepper Barbeque Sauce
I’m a pepper nut. But I’m not too nuts. I plant things that are useful. My current pepper patch has about 50 plants, and the current line up is as follows: Jalapeno – A workhorse pepper that is useful for…
Christmas Hot Pepper Jelly
I’ve been planting peppers in my garden for years. Every year I get bumper crops of all kinds of peppers from sweet bells to jalapenos and serranos to habaneros. And every year I struggle to figure out ways to use…
Easy Jalapeno Poppers
The Jalapeno Deluge I typically plant about 10 jalapeno pepper plants. Half are “regular” and half are “giant”. I start getting them by the boatload in early August, and usually slice and pickle them. But sometimes, there’s not enough to…
Banana Peppers 2 – I Still Have Too Many
Previously, we talked about being overrun with peppers and what you can do with them. In the current summer of Covid, you can’t just simply dump them on your co-workers like you did every other year. And they are really…
Banana Peppers – What Can You Do With Them?
The pepper patch is in full swing. I have gotten to the point of picking a half bushel of each type every few days, then I am under the gun to figure out what to do with them. This week,…
Hot Pepper Relish
As you already know, I like to pickle peppers. I’ve been doing it for years now, and devote a large chunk of my pepper patch to jalapeno and serrano peppers just to keep my public happy. What I Am Growing…
Hot Pickled Cauliflower Recipe
This hot pickled cauliflower recipe is just like Bell-View hot pickled cauliflower you can buy in the store. It’s easy to make and great with hot peppers from your garden. You might also like this hot pepper relish recipe! A…
Zucchini Avalanche
Some vegetables are dangerous. Zucchini falls into this category. First, you have to dedicate a lot of space to grow it. Two of my six raised beds are dedicated to squash. Second, they come at you like the Blitz in…
In the Kitchen – Home-made Paprika
I always liked the saying, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. But, what if life gives you thousands of peppers? As my readers know, I am an avid gardener, and each year I plant about 50 pepper plants. This…