Some Like It Hot

Peppers are a staple in our garden year by year.  We grow sweet peppers like Emerald Bell, Lilac Bell, Horizon Bell, Chocolate Bell, and Banana peppers.  We also have some mild peppers like Anaheim peppers and criolla sellas and then some hot peppers like jalapenos.  We cook with them, make pepper jelly and eat them raw.  We make a lot of Jalapeno Poppers.

The peppers grow and produce throughout the year, but they really produce in abundance during the fall.  Last year we cut a bunch of them up and put them in the dehydrator.  We have a full one gallon ziploc bag of dehydrated jalapeno peppers.  Whenever we cook, Tricia will grab a tablespoon full and put in the pot.

In anticipation of another bumper crop about to come in, we decided to do something with the dehydrated peppers from last year.  We got them out and poured them into the food processor.

After processing for a while, what's left is ground jalapeno pepper.  As soon as we took the cover off of the processer, we both began to sneeze.  The hot pepper was in the air!  Even though we couldn't see it, our sneezes evidenced that fact.

We poured the ground jalapeno pepper into a spice container.

Just yesterday, we had Chicken Fricassee for lunch.  Ground jalapeno pepper was sprinkled on top and it added a whole additional layer of flavor.  Delicious!