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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

I can grow peppers just fine.  I grow scads of Anaheims and 
Poblanos(Ancho) can't seem to ever have enough.  Even other year or so I 
grow cayenne and habs and scotch bonnets, but have pretty stopped doing 
that because I know someone who only grows cayennes and he always gives 
me a boatload.  I dry them in ristas, make oil, etc. etc.  I tried Alma 
Paprika a few years ago, but only got a few peppers-not really enough to 
make a good batch of paprika.
I think we have miscommunicated...what we can't grow is avocados..well, 
I can grow it as a houseplant, but not a fruiting tree.

I appreciate the mole info.  I never thought about using peppers like that..

B


Lynda wrote:
> When we lived in Mexico, the peppers were roasted and then peeled and 
> seeded.  Some of the pepper was put in the water and simmer and some was 
> smashed up in a pestal or on a butcher block (usually a chunk of stump) with 
> garlic and salt until you had a paste and then added into the liquid.  The 
> pepper "disappears" and sort of becomes a thickener.  Then you have a thin 
> mole, not a "water."
>
> This type of mole is what I add to rice to make a true Mexican rice which is 
> baked, not boiled/simmered, btw, and when done this way comes out perfectly 
> every single time.
>
> Why can't you grow peppers?
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> > Bueno.
>
> > > > > So you don't use the pepper at all?  It just flavors the water?
> > > Right, the dried pepper itself is not used, just the water you boil it 
> > > in.
> > > 'Flavor' the water is misleading, though.  The inside of the pepper
> > > disintegrates and all you remove from the water is basically the outside 
> > > hull of the
> > > pepper, which isn't much edible anyway.
> > >
> > > > > I have become addicted to avocados.  I know they are loaded with fat,
> > > > but I'm telling myself it is a good fat<g>
> > >
> > > Don't underestimate that!  It is whole, unadulterated vegetable fat.   I 
> > > very
> > > seriously doubt any active person ever got fat from eating avocados.
> > The only bad thing is that we can't grow them, so they must be
> > purchased.  Is there a way to preserve them?  Can you mash the flesh,
> > add lime juice and maybe freeze it?  How long will a avocado keep?  I
> > wouldn't have a clue-since they are my chocolate-it never lasts more
> > than two days in the fridge..:)
> >
> > B
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