I'd ordered a dried red pepper new to me, and it arrived yesterday. Dramatic unboxing follows, complete with official first grinding, in the pepper grinder.
It's hot, but like nutmeg, too. This will be great in soup or shakshuka or spag sauce, and I'll include it in my next batch of berbere. It now has a place on my salt and pepper shelf.
The wall hanging is shaping up, almost done with the applique blocks.
I need to think about the final stage.
Happy day everyone, try new things, you never know!
Meanwhile, little painting, 4" h×6.5"w, sedum by sidewalk after rain.
I’ve never seen pepper like that. Bet it will be a great addition to dishes. You are adventuresome, Boud.
ReplyDeleteMe neither. I think it will be good.
DeleteIs it all the seeds from inside the pepper? They must be very hot!
ReplyDeleteIt's whole peppers dried, so I expect the seeds are all present.
DeleteI need a new/better pepper grinder. You have reminded me.
ReplyDeleteDo you know where you'll hang your newest textile project yet?
I don't know exactly where this piece will go, yet.
DeleteThat pepper is new to me, too. It looks hot. A little will go a long way. You are almost to the finishing line! I sort of would like to dabble with watercolors after looking at what you've done, even though I am NOT an artist.
ReplyDeleteThat's the idea behind posting my little studies. It's here goes nothing, you can do this too!
DeleteI don't know anything about actual piper-pepper but I do have a jar of a triple-blend of whole peppercorns I haven't tried yet. In the nightshade-pepper category, I grew three kinds of Turkish peppers in 2022 solely in order to try making Turkish pepper paste, but they developed an infestation of some sort of infinitesimal thrip which I couldn't identify until long after the peppers were composted. Maybe next year...
ReplyDeleteI notice your interest in Turkish food, and I wonder if you might blog about how you came to it and what it's like.
DeleteI know next to nothing about peppers. I wish I knew more but, on the other hand, I can't eat spicy food anyway!
ReplyDeleteIt's one of the blessings of my life that I can eat anything, including garlic and spices, without paying for it later. I never take it for granted, given that my tastes are for spicy and hot foods.
DeleteA new red pepper seems exciting to me. I have never ground my own.
ReplyDeleteOnce you experience fresh ground pepper, white,black, now red, you won't want to bother with the pre-ground versions. There's flavor that vanishes once it's ground and bottled. That's why I ground only a small amount for starters, enough for a picture!
DeleteI used to love hot. But now it doesn’t like me. So I stick to mild
ReplyDeleteWhat an adventure you have had with the wall hanging. It’s going to look awesome hanging on your wall
Still another stage, after the blocks are finished.
DeleteThat made me go and do resesrch on Long Pepper. A very strange looking thing, but I see now it really is pepper (as opposed to chili). You really do open up the world of we who read your posts. Now I am going to Spice Mountain to see if they have any.
ReplyDeleteI got these from Reluctant Trading, very nice to deal with. I also got my very good black pepper from them and the dinky grinder.
DeleteThat little painting looks like an overlay for the applique.
ReplyDeleteThank you, thank you. You reminded me of some transparent artworks I'd made on silk and I'd forgotten about, that might just work here. If I can find them
DeleteI waffled at first between pepper (as in chile pepper) and pepper (as in peppercorn), was guessing the latter, and glad that Quinn and Tigger's Mum did their homework to confirm my hypothesis. One wonders how the two wildly different plants ended up with the same common name. Never heard of it. Thanks for another enlightening tidbit!
ReplyDeleteChris from Boise
It's related to black pepper, but has a lot more flavor, like nutmeg and cinnamon.
DeleteI doubt if I'll get into fancy peppers but I might get a grinder for regular black peppercorns, see if I can taste a difference between freshly ground or not. will you applique the squares onto a solid backing or just stitch them together?
ReplyDeleteStill deciding about the wallhanging, whether to stitch them together or on a backing, or both. I have to see what fabrics I have.
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