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What have you got there?  I look forward to seeing it after you've grilled it up.

  Glad to hear it!  How did they taste?  

Thanks for all of the replies!  There's an Aji sale now at the Refining Fire Facebook page, but yesterday I did some research and placed an order from chileplants.com, which should ship to me around 5/22.  Went with the following:   AJI DULCE 1 (Live Chile/Pepper Plant) DATIL SWEET (Live...

I appreciate that, but I think it's too late in the game for me to start seeds this season.

I'm in Chicago and love growing peppers but haven't been consuming enough of my prior year harvests of superhots.  I'd like to have some delicious yet practical plants in my garden this year.  Does anyone have a good source of interesting looking and/or tasting plants or have any for sale that...

Following this so I remember to ask you about these next year!  Looks like a cool plant.  

Sounds like we might be neighbors.  I'm in Ukrainian Village.  

Tacos with seasoned chopped steak from the local Chicago Mexican grocer, fresh flour tortillas that I blackened on the stove, and I used a Yucatecan technique where I dropped shredded chihuahua cheese over the 2 mounds of meat in the cast iron skillet.  It resulted in awesome melted and crispy...

- Wagyu beef burger cooked sous vide and seared on cast iron - Homemade bacon rendered in the cast iron - Garlic chips and sliced vidalia onion cooked in the bacon grease - Sliced raw jalapenos  - Colby Jack cheese - Pretzel roll - Gate's Kansas City BBQ sauce - Tots     High Life -- burned out...

I cooked a prime ribeye today with my Anova.  Used the searzall to add a nice char.  As a side I sauteed some shallots in butter, added 3 chopped Count Dracula peppers, a pound of sliced mushrooms and let them cook down.  Later I added some garlic powder, dried rosemary from last year's garden...

I like sous vide for my steaks for several reasons:   1. I live in an apartment not well suited to a charcoal grill - sous vide is nearly fool-proof and can be done in small, simple living spaces. 2. It'd take a lot of practice to be able to get the level of doneness on a steak that I can...

I've learned a lot this season, and grew more peppers than I know what to do with.  I think next year my selection will lean away from super hots.  I really like a few of my plants and hope to over-winter probably four of them.  Today I pulled the Reaper (maybe my only super for next year) and...

Grant, that meat looks killer.

If you have a Sur la Table store near you, they seem to always have them and it's where I bought mine.  The corer is great.   http://www.surlatable.com/product/PRO-625756/Sur+La+Table+Chili+Pepper+Grill+Rack+and+Corer   Target sells two online, one holding quite a few more peppers than this...