Hello Dave:I’m a novice who would like to know how many season’s green peppers usually produce pods. And if more than one, do I need to prune like I prune my trees? For whatever help you could offer, thank-you.Steve Hello Steve:Peppers are perennials in non-freezing climates and can last for years. However they lose vigor over the years, producing fewer …
Homemade Chilli Paste
Dear Dave:I have an excess of fresh, small green chillis and have been told that I can make a chilli paste to store for future use, but have been unable to find a recipe. Thank you,Sue in OZ Hello Sue:Simply remove the seeds and stems, grind the chillis in a food processor with a little salt and freeze the resulting …
Heated-Up Seeds?
Hello Dave:Where is the capsaicin located in the chile pod, in the flesh or the seeds? Thanks,Edgar Hello Edgar:Neither. It is located in the placental tissue in which the seeds are lodged. It disperses during processing and spreads over the flesh and seeds, giving illusion of the seeds being the location of capsaicin.Dave
First Steps to Becoming a Pro
Hi Dave!Not sure if you can help me, but I am helping my mother in getting her salsa marketed. She and her two sisters are excellent cooks and have a very vintage flare. Anyways, she makes an excellent salsa, which everyone loves, and I would like her to try selling it. We have a product name and that’s about it. …
’Facing Heaven’ Chile Substitution
Dear Dave,You recommend piquin chilies as a substitite for the Sichuan "facing-heaven" chilies that people who’ve read Fuchsia Dunlop’s excellent Sichuan cookbook Land of Plenty frequently seek. However, based on her description of the "facing heaven" varietypopular in Sichuan Province, the piquin is not a good choice. She specifically says that authentic "facing heaven chilies" (chao tian jiao) are not …