Subway is one of my favorite restaurants to eat at when I am looking for a filling meal. Part of the reason for this is that they make your sandwich for you with fresh vegetables while you wait. One of my favorite sandwiches to get at Subway is the chicken teriyaki sub. Believe it or ...
Hot pepper plants are an easy garden plant to grow, and they produce plenty of peppers all summer long. If you are anything like me, you have several different varieties growing in your backyard garden. There is a limit to how many hot peppers that anyone can eat fresh off the plant. Ideas for ...
Many of us love to add hot peppers to our recipes. But how many times have we added too much or learned the hard way that a particular pepper was simply too hot? There are few solutions other than to dilute your perfectly crafted dish or start over. If this has ever happened to you, ...
I love making fresh salsa for canning with tomatoes from my garden each year but when you have a ton of tomatoes it can be quite a labor-intensive job. For this reason I like to make roasted salsa for canning when I have a large amount of tomatoes to use. With roasted salsa there is ...
Oh Serranos! This is my favorite hot pepper because of its heat power and ease of use. Serranos look like jalepenos but are half the size. Two years ago I started venturing into the surprisingly healthy world of chile peppers. After I pop a raw serrano I get an instant energy burst and a super ...
Hot peppers add a rush of warmth to your dishes, and there was a time that if you wanted to have such warmth in your meals in the cold of winter, you had to can your peppers. While this process produces particularly piquant peppers, they just never have quite the same taste that you find ...
Loving hot peppers is an international phenomenon. Just about every region from Thailand, Mexico, China, India, Lebanon, the West Indies and more find a place in their hearts and in their spice cabinets for these potent little bombs. They are carried by mailmen fending off vicious dogs and are even under investigation by the Indian ...
For years I watched my dad eat hot peppers, one right after another. Sometimes he would appear to be in extreme pain. Sweat settled under his eyes after each bite he took. He would always comment, “that was a good one”. He ate a variety of peppers, ones that he and my mom grew in ...
I love all types of hot peppers and cook with them a lot. I have also become rather famous for my salsa, which only the brave seem willing to try. Because I use so many hot peppers so often in my cooking, I have found it much easier – and more cost-effective – to grow ...
This spring my friend Daryl gave me some seeds from a pepper he had wrapped up in tinfoil. He had been to a restaurant for dinner and complimented the chef on the meal, particularly the peppers. The peppers were imported from Italy and the chef gave Daryl an actual pepper (hence the tinfoil wrapping). Well, ...