Chillies

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  1. littleorme

    littleorme Gardener

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    I have one plant that is so loaded ..please could somebody tell me ....how to keep them, as there are so many of them...
     
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    needle and thread through the stem and tie them up in the kitchen. They get hotter after they've dried out...
     
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    Many thanks Loofah..much appreciated :)
     
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    Or they freeze well. They also get hotter in the freezer. Strange but true.
     
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    Yeah I just chcuk them in the freezer whole, still got a few left from last years crop
     
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    I found that too with the hot cherries that i froze from last Fall:thumb:
     
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    Likewise, all mine went in the freezer last summer and still have loads.

    Jalapenos are great sliced on a homemade pizza.:thumb:

    I'll have to eat them up fast to make room for this year's crop.:D
     
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    What are hot cherries, Penny?
     
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    I do a variety of things with them.

    Freeze some, air dry some (lay them spread out on kitchen paper and put by a sunny window), pickle some in vinegar (I'm not keen on them but Mrs shiney is), pickle some in a small amount of vinegar and a lot of, hot, olive oil and store in the fridge (when they have cooled). We grow a lot of very hot chillies and the olive oil can also be in cooking but beware because the oil seems to get even hotter than the chillies.

    This was a quarter of our November harvesting the other year - we eat a lot of fresh chillies throughout the summer which is my favourite way of having chillies.

    This lot were being prepared for 'oil' pickling.


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    wow..many thanks for the suggestions...I will definately try both ways..freeze and dry..I also fancy threading them together....thinking about it they would look good as a necklace LOL.:)
     
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    Would wearing that make you 'hot stuff'? ;)
     
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    moi......hot enough already .:)
     
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    Now I understand. I shoved a lot of peppers ,that were too late to ripen, into the freezer. I used one or two that I kept back. When I used the freezer ones they nearly blew my brains out:hehe:
     
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