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Comments (8)Growing Indoors vs. Outdoors Grow them outdoors. You are unlikely to have enough light indoors to get them to bear unless you have a glorified greenhouse of a sunroom. Just sitting them by a window is generally not enough, nor are heat lamps a good idea because you are going to burn the plants with them almost guaranteed. Just put them in containers if the actual soil around your place isn't good enough. Walmart carries those really big tree planters, buy those (its what I grow my container peppers in) and fill them with miracle grow potting soil (not the moisture control kind). Cross Pollination: If you actually want to prevent almost all likelyhood of cross pollination, you're looking at probably 100 yards (a football field) between species, or a large blocking object (like a house). But in truth, it is unlikely that you will get accidental crossing even if the plants are sitting right next to each other. Peppers are mostly self pollinating, so the odds of accidental crossing are actually pretty low to start with. Preserving: Drying the peppers and making powder out of them (get a dehydrator and a cheap coffee grinder) is the way I prefer. If you want to try canning, you need to learn actual canning. Glass mason jars, wax seals, boiling baths, the whole nine yards. Otherwise you will simply get mold and spoiled peppers at best, and horrendous food poisoning at worst. Types: Just be aware that the hotter the pepper the longer it takes to germinate the seeds (in less than ideal conditions I've seen ghost peppers take MONTHS to sprout). Also, I grow some of the black pearl peppers. They are ornamentals. While you can eat them, they generally are not used for food, but as decoration. That said, black pearls are very cool looking pepper plants....See MoreRecipes to test my new enameled cast iron 'French Oven'?
Comments (11)How adventurous are you? Anything which needs long slow cooking will work. Its forte is braising meats: brown on the top of the stove, add liquid and cook slowly for a long time in a slow oven. Chili is really easy, as are pot roasts. Here are two classic dishes: "Gigot de sept heures" --seven hour leg of lamb. Brown lamb, add stock and vegetables, put in a very slow oven for 7 hours. Yes, it takes 7 hours to cook but your involvement is mostly about 20 minutes at the beginning. Perfect for when you have to be in the house all day doing other stuff, because you shouldnÂt be peeking at this dish anyway while it cooks. Do a google search and youÂll find a few versions of this recipe. The lamb comes out juicy, delicious and fork-tender. Another classic dish is "lapin en gibelotte"Âa fancy rabbit stew. The link below is to one version of the dish. If youÂve never tried domestic rabbit, give it a try: delicate, more flavorful than chicken, not at all gamy. Here is a link that might be useful: lapin en gibelotte...See MoreNostalgia.....
Comments (17)Where I went to university (Rice, in Houston), we had residential colleges, like Harvard and Yale, and the freshmen were require to sign up to serve tables for dinner, generally on alternating weeks, depending on how many freshmen there were to go around. We had seated dinners with white tablecloths, and the waiter-freshmen would go to the food service kitchen with a huge tray to pick up the plates of food for the tables they were serving. Everyone was required to wear a tie for dinner, and on Sundays a coat and tie. If people at the table wanted seconds, the freshman server would go back to the kitchen to get them. At the end of the meal, we would clear the table, take orders for coffee or tea and come back with dessert and the coffees and teas required. I hated the food service food, and the meat they served helped me to decide to remain vegetarian at that time. The tea was terrible too, and so I would bring my own tea bags to dinner, which a few people thought was a tiny bit strange, but most thought it was a good idea, and it caught on. At dessert, I would have to ask for "hot water" instead of "tea" to make sure that my cup did not come back with a tea bag already in it. I used to have tea parties in my college room, and I would serve cake from one of the local delicatessens - usually Alfred's in The Village, which is no longer there. I had an electric kettle and a Bavarian porcelain tea pot and cups. I also had sterling silver sugar tongs, to use with sugar cubes. If any guest picked up sugar cubes with his fingers instead of with the tongs, he didn't get invited back. Fortunately Houston had good restaurants, and Alfred's was a good alternative to university food - plus it was walking distance. Also as a freshman during the first month, we were supposed to wear stupid beanies and vests (only Hanszen College required this, and I happened to be in Hanszen), and we also had to learn each upperclassman in our section (Hanszen had five sections) by name and greet him by name if we passed each in the quadrangle. If we failed to do this and were caught, we were then forced to do "shack runs", which meant that we had to go to all the rooms in our section and take orders (and money) for take out food from the local "Chicken Shack" restaurant on the other side of Main Street from the university. This part of freshman orientation had become voluntary by the time I was a freshman, and so I volunteered not to participate. Later in the year, I was elected to the freshman council and got some of the more (to me) humiliating traditions abolished, in order to bring Hanszen up to date with the other colleges - all of which had already abolished those traditions. I didn't oppose freshman orientation, but I did oppose the "Shack Runs". I also did not oppose having freshman wait tables, which of course lasting beyond freshman week. The worst tradition at Rice was the water balloon fights. I was lucky enough never to get hit, but I had some close calls. Also at Rice, despite a male/female ratio of about 3/2, there were no panty raids on the female colleges (housing was segregated back then, although visitor of both sexes were allowed in rooms). Instead, the female residents had jock raids on the male colleges, in an effort to get attention. All they got instead was a bombardment of water balloons. Lars...See MoreElecrtic Skillets
Comments (21)LOL, my neighbors would smell it, and my old neighbors would have come over for some :) We can hear the neighbor's music by their pool. Tempted to yell "Change the station" sometimes, LOL! Renee, I googled Malasadas, don't talk yourself out of that, they look so good :) LOL @ the Maui Regency, Cathy! Helene, you do your latkes at higher than 350? Mine always burn! Trixie, glad you like the Cuisinart, I'm sure I will, too, it got tons of great reviews on Amazon. Funny but the few negatives made me nervous! gbrenna, I thought the same, the electric skillet heats pretty evenly for me, not so when I use a too big skillet on the stove! Beverly, like Ann, I usually don't fry in the electric past 350 otherwise everything burns. Maybe your temp is off on your newer one? Annie, it is good as an "extra" especially on the holidays. We used to use it to fry up blintzes So hopefully they'll deliver before the holidays, I have ten pounds of latkes to make ahead and freeze!...See More- 9 years ago
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