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Stefan_W's Great Big Beefy Pepper Adventure: Grow List
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Stefan you can't go wrong with the yellow 7 or yellow brain. Since they have very similiar tastes and some would say they are basically the same . Both are perfect for sauces or powders. And with your skills you will make something magnificent. I have some tasty yellow scotch bonnets if you would like some send me your addy.
Merry Christmas my friend.
Merry Christmas my friend.
Stefan you can't go wrong with the yellow 7 or yellow brain. Since they have very similiar tastes and some would say they are basically the same . Both are perfect for sauces or powders. And with your skills you will make something magnificent. I have some tasty yellow scotch bonnets if you would like some send me your addy.
Merry Christmas my friend.
Merry Christmas to you and your family as well, Jamie! Thank you very much for the comparison between the yellow 7 and brains. I was starting to second guess my decision to scrap brains in favour of yellow 7 gigantics, but based on what you are saying I think I may have got that one right. I always go for the giant sizes if I can because deep down inside I am lazy and I hate cleaning the seeds out of smaller peppers.
The yellow scotch bonnets sounds great, but I already have peach bonnets in my grow list. Do you think the peach or yellow bonnets have a better flavour?
It looks like the snow is finally starting, and winter is finally kicking in. These shots of the backyard where pepper growing happens were taken a couple of minutes ago. The snowfall is just starting, and will probably be kee deep and possibly close to hip deep by Christmas.
Looking out towards where the tomatoes and peas grow.
Some pots sitting out the winter. The raised section to the left usually hold cukes, but I am using it for superhots and garlic this coming season as I wait for the cucumber beetles to clear out.
Looking out towards where the tomatoes and peas grow.
Some pots sitting out the winter. The raised section to the left usually hold cukes, but I am using it for superhots and garlic this coming season as I wait for the cucumber beetles to clear out.
Hi Stefan
It's pretty sloppy here. 2 days of wintery mix... snow, sleet and freezing rain. I'd just as soon have it be snow! Heading up to Canada, eh,for Christmas with my MIL. She's 91 and we want to get them in while we can. Cheers!
Where in Canada are you heading?
St John, NB... my wife is a blue-nosed Herring choker...
St John, NB... my wife is a blue-nosed Herring choker...
Well, there wont be any shortage of snow out there for ya!
He's from Bangor. That's pretty well populated, but half an hours drive east and it's mostly bogs and pulpwood forest, and the occasional lake or bald hilltop with lowbush blueberries on it 'til you get to the St Croix river valley. Good Moose hunting, but not good access unless you have a vehicle that can manage the dirt logging roads.
My latest order from Joyners came in the mail a few days ago, and I have been itching to try out some fresh powder on some chicken wings. I cooked them in my T-Fal Actifry, which is a neat kitchen gadget that makes pretty impressive wings in about 20-25 minutes. The downside is that it only holds about 12-15 wings at a time, but to me that is not an issue. When I was young I would go through 30-50 wings in a sitting, and now a dozen really spicy wings seems just about right for an evening snack.
This is the Actifry. It claims to be a healthy way of cooking, but in reality whether a snack is healthy or not depends on what the snack is. There is no way to make wings healthy, but you can make them a little less bad for you by using less oils and draining the fat. I do recommend the Actifry because it is great with wings and regular fries.
Joyners sent me a sample pack of Cherry/Alder smoked habernero mix, which sounded so good I was chomping at the bit to get at it. Alder is not used often enough in smoking, in my opinion, so it impressed me that it was used in this mix.
The wings were spiced in the most basic way possible so that I got the full taste of the powder. I put in a bit of garlic powder, some lemon pepper, and a teaspoon of oil. The entire sample pack of the smoked hab mix went in too.
20 minutes later it was done to perfection. At this point I took half of them out, mostly for my wife (who does not like sauce), but also partly to leave one or two for me to sample without any sauce.
If you want to add sauce you are supposed to add it at this stage and cook for five more minutes, which is what I did. I ended up putting on the mango sauce I made recently, which is heated up with bourbon and tabasco peppers. I wish I could do just describing how amazing the smell was when this was cooking! Good food should be a feast for all of the senses, not just taste.
When they were done they were slightly darker in colour than the wings with just the powder, but man did they ever taste different. They were so freaking good!
It took about 5 minutes for us to plow through these. My wife loved the plain ones, and even though the heat gave her a bit of a hard time she soldiered on and finished hers off. I was in heaven the whole time I was eating them, and of course there were so few I was left wanting more. But that is all right as well.
Both with and without the sauce this was one of the best snacks I've had in a very long time.
Thanks for having a look!
This is the Actifry. It claims to be a healthy way of cooking, but in reality whether a snack is healthy or not depends on what the snack is. There is no way to make wings healthy, but you can make them a little less bad for you by using less oils and draining the fat. I do recommend the Actifry because it is great with wings and regular fries.
Joyners sent me a sample pack of Cherry/Alder smoked habernero mix, which sounded so good I was chomping at the bit to get at it. Alder is not used often enough in smoking, in my opinion, so it impressed me that it was used in this mix.
The wings were spiced in the most basic way possible so that I got the full taste of the powder. I put in a bit of garlic powder, some lemon pepper, and a teaspoon of oil. The entire sample pack of the smoked hab mix went in too.
20 minutes later it was done to perfection. At this point I took half of them out, mostly for my wife (who does not like sauce), but also partly to leave one or two for me to sample without any sauce.
If you want to add sauce you are supposed to add it at this stage and cook for five more minutes, which is what I did. I ended up putting on the mango sauce I made recently, which is heated up with bourbon and tabasco peppers. I wish I could do just describing how amazing the smell was when this was cooking! Good food should be a feast for all of the senses, not just taste.
When they were done they were slightly darker in colour than the wings with just the powder, but man did they ever taste different. They were so freaking good!
It took about 5 minutes for us to plow through these. My wife loved the plain ones, and even though the heat gave her a bit of a hard time she soldiered on and finished hers off. I was in heaven the whole time I was eating them, and of course there were so few I was left wanting more. But that is all right as well.
Both with and without the sauce this was one of the best snacks I've had in a very long time.
Thanks for having a look!
I love seeing people use powders in amazing ways. Wings are a great vessel to experience the full flavor of powders! Happy holidays and may you keep warm with heat made simple's support. Awesome pictures and explanations.
Awesome pictures and explanations.Thank you very much! The tasted even better than they looked.
I love seeing people use powders in amazing ways. Wings are a great vessel to experience the full flavor of powders! Happy holidays and may you keep warm with heat made simple's support.
The powder was outstanding, and I am looking forward to trying out the other sample and then moving to the ones I actually ordered. I'm sure some pictures of whatever I come up with will find their way here at some point
Absolutely it did! The one drag about sharing all of this stuff online is that it would be cool to have all of the people I'm getting to know over for a wing and beer night, although I'd probably have to get another 5 or 6 actifries to keep up with y'all so maybe its a good thing that everyone is so far away.
MMM look at those WINGS delicious got me licking my screen. Sorry for the snow, but that powder will help pull through the wait of starting your new season when your ready. Merry Christmas
Thank you very much! I've lived with snow my whole life so it doesn't bug me too much. In fact, up until a few years ago I lived in Winnipeg which is much, much colder. Anyway, every year when I start my seeds there's a couple of feet of snow outside my window, which is kind of cool if you think about it.
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Those were some tasty ass wings Stefan. I am a sucker for a good wing or two
I have never had a peach so I cannot answer that question .But the yellow scotch bonnets are some tasty specimens.
I wonder how easy it would be to ship pods across the border. The common sense solution seems to be you growing the yellow scotch bonnets, me growing the peach, and trading a few back and forth so we each have both of them.
