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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Peppers, was Canned Meats
  • Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:37:56 -0500

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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