peppers

Candied Jalapeños!

You may have noticed there aren’t a lot of recipes on here that use peppers.  There are two excellent reasons for that: I loathe them.  And it turns out, I’m pretty allergic to them!  One of the few positive results on my skin-prick test that didn’t bring me to tears!…

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Sweet and spicy pickled banana peppers

A sweet pepper-pickling recipe

Since my sweet banana peppers turned out to be mislabeled hot banana peppers, they haven’t been picked as much as I had hoped.  Usually my peppers just get eaten straight off the plant by my mother when she comes by to visit, but she doesn’t do that when they’re this…

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Goodbye, Summer Garden!

Yesterday my mom came over and we took down a lot of the summer garden.  A lot of plants still looked healthy, but they just aren’t going to produce any more fruit for the rest of the year.  And some plants look like crap but they clearly are still going…

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