Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Chile Pepper Gardening”
by Dave DeWitt, Nancy Gerlach, and Jeff Gerlach Photography by Steve Tesky Food Styling by Denice Skrepcinski One of the best ways to handle an overwhelming chile crop is to pickle them. Pickling the peppers will preserve them at least until next year’s crop comes in and makes “almost” fresh chiles available throughout the year. They can be pickled by …
By Nancy Gerlach, R.D. & C.S.I (Registered Dietitian and Culinary Science Investigator) Recipes: Bloody Maria Belizean Habanero Hot Sauce Pico de Gallo Fiery Horseradish Cream Southwest Chile Clam Chowder Creamy Asparagus Rosemary Soup Blue Corn Chile Cheese Muffins Spiced Cranberry Pumpkin Muffins Spicy Tomatillo Shrimp Nancy Gerlach, R.D. and C.S.I. After 20 years of writing about chiles, I thought I’d …
Story and Photos by Harald Zoschke Recipes: Candying Chiles Bold Banana Bread Belligerent Butter Scotch Blistering Blue Lagoon Cocktail Many chile gardeners know harvest time as “too many chiles”, and we already showed you various ways to use and preserve the plenty of pods, for example by drying, pickling, or juicing. Now here’s a new way to keep the pods …
By Dr. Gerald Schmidt Even among true chileheads, domesticated varieties are the most popular and only a small minority are enthusiastic about wild species. The chiltepin and related bird peppers, the wild forms of the cultivated species, are known to chileheads, but their variations in pod shape and size are not readily apparent. I am enamored of the bird peppers, …
Story and Photos by Harald Zoschke Fiery Foods & BBQ Central Recommendations Chile Pepper Bedding Plants… over 500 varieties from Cross Country Nurseries, shipping April to early June. Fresh pods ship September and early October. Go here Chile Pepper Seeds… from all over the world from the Chile Pepper Institute. Go here Cultivating capsicums in your backyard is a lot of …
