What is your favorite salt & pepper mill brand?
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Comments (22)I was looking through some old backup hard drives today and came across two recipes that I forgot about and haven't made in quite a while. Both good. The comments are all from the original poster. Shirley's Red Pepper Jam This is my favorite Pepper Jam recipe. 12 Sweet red peppers [you may add a few red jalapenos for heat] 1 Tbls. canning salt 2 cups white vinegar 3 cups sugar Remove seeds from peppers and put through food processor. Don't over process. Place in bowl and sprinkle with salt. Let stand 2 hours. Drain. Place in stainless steel clad bottomed cook-pot. Add sugar and vinegar. Cook slowly and stir until consistency of jam. This may take 1/2 hr. to 45 min. Seal in sterile jars. Process 10 min in HWB. Yield: 6 or 7 half pints. Great with creme cheese and Ritz crackers. And a knockoff of Harry and David's Pepper and Onion Relish (I think this was Shirley's recipe, too, but the file is dated 2008, so my memory may be faulty and before I started noting who posted the recipe): My last batch today is the last try at my H&D pepper, onion relish taste alike. I've made 4 batches of this already this season and I think I have got it about where I want it. If anyone is interested or even gives a dang, here is my recipe. I used my Cuisinart to chop all the peppers. Tomatoes were peeled, seeded and diced very small. The onion was diced using the Julienne blade of my V-slicer. 12 med Red bell peppers 10 jalapenos 5 assorted green, yellow or red hot peppers 5 large plum tomatoes 1 large onion. Any kind will do. 2 cups white vinegar 3 cups granulated sugar Remove seeds and white membrane from red peppers Remove HALF the seeds from the jalapenos Remove half the seeds from the other hots. Chop peppers in food processor Place in bowl with prepared tomatoes and onion. Sprinkle with 1 Tbls. canning salt. Let stand about 1 hour. Drain off liquid. I use my quart capacity strainer with a handle. The holes are smaller than my colander. You don't want any of the small pepper pieces falling through. Place peppers, onions and tomatoes in cooking pot and add sugar and vinegar. Cook over medium heat until thick as you like. Usually 30 or 45 minutes is plenty. You can almost tell by the texture. Ladle into jam jars and seal. Process 20 minutes in Hot water bath....See MoreYour favorite pepper(s) for chili powder
Comments (15)I sure like Bob's suggestions! The others were good too. Mesquite wood is a great for smoking, but a little really, really goes a long way. Pecan wood from Texas is my favorite. Pellets (not the Traeger brand) can take a lot of the guess work out of smoking. There are quite a few different woods available. I use lump charcoal for the initial fire and dump either pellets or wood chunks on top for the smoke. No petrol flavored briquettes allowed in my grills or smokers. (such as Kingsford) Lemon Drop (C. baccatum) has gotten more favorable responses than any of my other powders. There are similar C. chinense varieties that are just as lemon flavored. Red ripe jalapeño powders are one of my personal favs. Any C. pubescens (rocotos/manzanos etc) make great powders. jt...See MoreYour Favorite Pepper Sauce Recipe
Comments (19)I was looking for hot sauce recipes here and found this thread. Here is my recipe, which I posed on the Cooking forum last year: Habanero Chili Sauce The way I make it is to take a bunch of habanero chilies (12 to 20) and put them in a grill pan so that they will not fall through the grates of the barbeque, and then I char them slightly over mesquite charcoal, but you can use whatever charcoal you like, but it must be charcoal or wood to get the smoky flavor that I like. I usually roast a few cloves of garlic in the pan with the chilies, and I also roast a few of the large red or yellow bell peppers, to make the sauce a bit milder and make it go further. After the chilies are charred, I move them to a Pyrex or Corningware pan that has a good lid, and I let them steam covered. They must be covered right after they are removed from the grill. You can use whatever ripe chilies you have, but cayenne is not a very good choice because it is not very fleshy. You can include the tiny Thai chilies also, but I generally only use fairly large chilies, as they are better for making a sauce. After the chilies have cooled (sometimes in the fridge overnight), I remove the stems, some seeds, and some of the skin that is loose and put them through a food mill with the garlic, but you can use a sieve or colander, as long as the holes are small enough for the seeds not to pass through. Be careful of fumes at this point, and you may want to wear a snorkel to avoid breathing them in. You may want to wear rubber gloves also, but I generally do not. The worst part of it is when you have to rinse out the food mill, for when you do this, even more fumes come up in the air. When you have the bulk of the chilies through the food mill or sieve, add salt and vinegar - I generally add one part white Balsamic vinegar for four parts of chili puree, and I add a fair amount of salt - about one tablespoon per cup of sauce, but you can add more to help preserve it. I freeze some of it in plastic bags, but I have found that it keeps fairly well in the fridge, if you add enough vinegar. A lot of people add carrots and other vegetables to this sauce, but I prefer to keep it pure, and that way I have the most concentrated flavor. You get a lot of flavor in this sauce in a tiny amount of it. I highly recommend that you add the red bell peppers, as they also give a good flavor and make the sauce go a bit further. Lars...See MoreWhat is your favorite brand of W&D, and why?
Comments (9)I have the Wave Touch 70 series and while I don't know exactly what "Gentle Tumble" is, I can tell you that I absolutely love the Perfect Tumble feature on the dryer. It reverse tumbles the load and makes sure it's not tangled up when you remove it. I also like the extended tumble feature, which tumbles the load with cool air until you take it out. This feature is adjustable, so I can make it tumble for up to three hours after it's done drying. This allows me to take the laundry out and fold it when it's convenient for me. If I wait till the load is fully cooled and has tumbled a bit, it doesn't get wrinkled in the basket while I'm folding. With my old dryer, I'd dash to the dryer as soon as it went off, and it would take some fancy maneuvering to make sure that things didn't get wrinkled in the basket. A feature I like very much in the washer is the shrink guard. It tumbles the load after the last spin, fluffing it up a bit. I have fewer wrinkles in the laundry with the new pair. As to the number of cycles, I admit freely that it's a ridiculous number. However, you have options within those cycles, and that means that I can get this washer to do pretty much anything I want it to. I don't use all of the cycles, but I can tweak the cycles I do use to my satisfaction, and I like that very much. I've had this pair for almost a year and a half, and so far I'm very happy with them. The push to open door has not been annoying, as I'd feared it might be. :-) Cj Updated to insert a missing sentence, so the first paragraph makes sense now. Sorry! This post was edited by cj47 on Thu, Apr 18, 13 at 11:13...See More- 5 years ago
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