Recent content by Holly2015

A wise cook once told me secret recipes are the ones you share. The recipes that do not turn out well are the once you keep to yourself.

As a follow up I let the peppers ferment on the counter for 1156 days. I put the peppers and juice in the Ninja blender and blended it mutiple times throughout the day. Next I poured it through a double layer of cheese cloth and then pressed the cheese cloth and maybe got 1/4 cup of seeds and...

I don't do hydropinics other than starting plants then into self watering 5 gallon buckets.  Once the buds start to appear I am a fan if misting with epsom salt solution every other week. I use 1 table spoon per galon then put in a spray bottle and mist the leaves top and bottom. Seems to help...

Here's a good vid on how to care for pepper plants.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syhPPONJDKY

Out of the 4 reapers I planted 3 sprouted within a week or so of one another and the 4th was two or 3 weeks later. I actually forgot about it and then one day I saw the sprout. This sprout looks good but is soooo slow growing the others are 10x the size. All the seed were from last years harvest.

Personally I'm a big fan of topping pepper plants so they are more bushy, not tall gangly and prone to breakage. Also the energy can go into developing the fruit and not growing long branches.    Reapers at around the 50 day mark started from seed in the Aerogarden,     3 weeks later:      

Plant in the 1st pic was newly topped on 3/7/20. Same plant 3 days later on 3/10/202   Plant is really starting to rebound with lots of new growth.    I'll tell you the 1st time you break out the scissors to top a plant it was hard to do. You feel like you are damaging the plant by cutting back...

Transplanted the 2 larger lants today into 5 gallon self watering buckets.   1st pic is the root mass. I used a pair of tin snips to cut off the plastic cages that held the plant in the aerogarden. Cut the care on 2 side a and it opens right up and pulls away from the root mass.    2nd and 3rd...

So 40 couple days later and I have 4 plants. The left rear was the 1st to sprout and topped a week ago and rebounded with lots of new sprouts. The root mass is about 12" long. The front left plants will get topped this weekend and the rear right plant topped ina week or two. In the middle was a...

Friend ave me a few duck breast from an earlier harvest. Time to make a little duck prosciutto.   421g of duck breasts   Kosher salt Sugar in the raw Cure #1 Black pepper Rosemary  Juniper berries 1 dried Carolina reaper   All the spices, salts and sugar into the Ninja bullet for a pulse   Duck...

This my friends seprate the wheat from the chaff.           

While I have vintage cast iron do not be afraid of Lodge. I have it as well and it works a treat. If you do by used cast iron they also make lead test kits to make sure over the milennia that whateve you bought was no used to melt lead.   Also when I buy used cast iron a strip all the seasoning...

After cleaning up the Dutch oven its got  5qt stamped into it. This one was manufactured on the 50/60's after Wagner took over Griswold a its cast Wagner over Griswold, Made in USA 5QT

Mine too is a Griswold can't see the number thought its dark out. I don't think the size is really a factor.Probably able to do it in a 10" skillet. Just have to watch the cook time.   This one measures 10" across and 4" high.

4 quart