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Getting a few cayennes late in the season.  I'll toss these in a paper bag with an apple to ripen them up  

Whats this plant?  Its an Aji Pineapple Lemon Cito!  These three plants were in my shady raised bed, which this late in the season only gets about 2 hours of actual sun.  They haven't given me a ripe pod in about 3 weeks.  So I pulled all three out of the ground, transplanted into the same...

  Thanks Runescape!  I haven't tried any from this batch.  Was thinking about doing a small batch of MOA only sauce.   The Aji Pancas were a disappointment.  I only got two peppers off the plant and they didn't taste all that interesting.   Thanks Trident!  I really am.  Last year someone gifted...

Beautiful pods!

Summer's not over yet my friends.  Well, at least my peppers don't think so.  The plants in my hoop house are still putting out ripe pods and this bunch is from a MOA I moved indoors and set under my grow light.  

  Its working pretty well, though slower than I want.  Two days ago it was 71F and sunny outside, and 101F and really humid inside the hoop house.  I've been pulling 4-5 pods ever few days.  But I just looked in today and and are dozens that are starting to turn color.  Hopefully in a week or...

Looks awesome PIC1.  Missed your glog this year

South American Pineapple Sauce   I really liked my Aji Cito and Aji Peruvian peppers.  They are really sweet, kind'a cherry like in flavor, and a nice medium cayenne like heat.  I thought they might be really good in a sauce with grilled pineapple.   Ingredients 50'ish Aji Cito, Aji Peruvian...

  Thanks for the compliment Winland!  I wanna say I started with 1 cup of vinegar, the after hitting it with the immersion blender I may have added a bit more to get the desired consistency.  That's kinda my SOP for sauces.  Start with enough vinegar to just barely cover the peppers in the pot. ...

  The heating element went out.  I could have purchased a new element, but it was 1/3 the price of a new smoker, so I decided to just get a new one.

Freezing pods wont affect the flavor of the sauce at all.  I actually freeze all my pods before sauce making, even if they are fresh at the time I'm gonna cook up a sauce.  Freezing seems to break down the cell walls of the peppers, and I find I get a much smoother, thicker sauce that doesn't...

Vinegar is fine, but with that mix I'd go with white wine vinegar instead.  I find it a bit more mild in flavor so the other ingredients shine through.   But thats just me.  Also with that much fruit, you might hold off on adding any sugar until after you cook the sauce down a bit.  It might be...

I was smoking some cayennes for one of my favorite sauces yesterday and our 40 year old Little Chief Smoker finally died.    Say hello to my new Big Chief Smoker.  Here is to another good 40 years of smoking stuff!  

I've got a ton for green pods on my plants, but the night time temps in the lower 50's and day time highs in the mid 60's.  So decided to put up the hoop house to see if I could create a warmer environment that the pods might ripen in.   Just checked the temps is its a humid 91F inside, and 62F...

Cheap they were not.  $14 / pound.  But 3 pods only cost me $1.  I've been letting them ripen up a bit.  If I like them I'm planning on going back and buying a bunch...and saving some seeds

I'll probably give them another couple of weeks before I start transplanting them.  Just trying to plan the end of the season.  I'd also like to have another go at bonchi again.  Aphids just overtook my bonchi last year and destroyed them.  Hopefully I'll do a better job of de-pesting my plants...

I'll go with 815   Thanks for the chance!

Our local Asian grocery had these on sale this week and were labeled chocolate habanero.  What do you think?   

Its been dead in here, so I thought I'd liven things up a bit.  The season isn't over yet folks!   My plants did a late season growth spurt during Sept and doubled in bushy volume.  They are packed with green pods.  I think I'm gonna take a stab at trimming them back, keeping only the branches...

Yea, I might have to do that this year.  I've got an amazing amount of green pods