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More fun kitchen gadgets from the Fonq cooking section! And no, they’re not paying me to promote them; I just have a deep-seated love for stores that sell neat kitchen gadgets! I must have lived under a rock, because I completely missed these handy kitchen helps made by Joseph Joseph. They look like a million bucks (I take photos of food, cut me some slack) and come in all colours of the…
Jalapeño Powder
There I was, six months after starting Project Jalapeño, having more of those green little suckers than I could eat in a lifetime. After all the work I put into growing them, I sure wasn’t going to let them go to waste, so I thought of ways to keep them. I already froze a batch—chopped and whole—but quickly found they get a little mushy upon thawing. No biggie, you won’t…
Project Jalapeño. The End.
It was a fun ride! Easier than I expected it to be. You do have to invest quite some time into developing a watering schedule, looking out for them, but mainly they grow themselves. My babies. All grown-up. They are so much hotter than I anticipated. So much spicier than what you can buy here. After I picked the first jalapeño, I thoughtlessly popped a slice into my…
What Not To Do
That awkward moment when you realize you still have a huge tray full of basil seedlings and you forgot to transfer them to bigger pots. Sighs.
Meanwhile, Back At The Pepper Farm…
Pepper wise things are going well. Very well, I must say. The seeds we were afraid were really Serrano peppers turned out to be Jalapeños after all. Whew. One after another plant is starting to produce fruit. The Jalapeño plants… But my Anaheim plants are also going like crazy. The Madame Jeanette plants are still too small to produce fruit yet, but they are thriving as well. As for me…….
Project Jalapeño VII
After transferring the first batch to a bucket, they took off like a bullet and put out their beautiful white flowers. Because some of the plants will stay indoors, I used a Q-tip and gently rubbed it in the middle of each blossom to hand-pollinate them (move pollen to stamen). Since then I’ve transferred most plants and the majority of them are outdoors now. They’re doing great, but I…
