When is a poblano not a poblano? In our area, I rarely see poblano chiles in our grocery stores, so when I saw them at Starsky’s the other day, I bought a bunch of them. Some went into last night’s soup and the rest I… Read More
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Heat
Somewhere along the way, Tuffy P and I have developed a taste for very hot chiles. I suppose we simply built up a tolerence to the point that those commercially available red flakes just don’t do it for us, and neither do many of the… Read More
Arno’s Habaneros dried and ground
Most of the habaneros were dry after about 30 hours in the dehydrator. At that point there remained a couple handfuls that were still not ready so I removed the dry ones and left the others on overnight, removing them next morning. During the drying… Read More
Hot Muffins
Tuffy P made hot muffins tonight. I don’t just mean they were hot out of the oven. No no no. These were savoury muffins, made with cheese and hot chiles. You may remember that I dried a batch of scotch bonnets the other day and… Read More
Hot Hot Hot
Somewhere along the way, Tuffy P and I developed a tolerance and love of hot foods. At a certain point we found we could not buy ground chiles that were hot enough to give us that spicy jolt we were looking for, so we began… Read More
Hot hot hot
I don’t know how it happened. Somewhere, somehow along the way, Tuffy P and I developed a love and high tolerance for very hot chiles. I realized it one day when Tuffy was shoveling insane amounts of crushed red chiles on her dinner and commenting… Read More