My journey of cooking, gardening, preserving and more
Who loves hot salsa? I love hot salsa! I’ve canned Ghost Chili Pepper Salsa and Trinidad Scorpion Pepper Salsa and now I want to share my Scotch Bonnet Salsa canning recipe. These are all a riff on my popular Chunky Tomato Salsa Canning Recipe because …
When I’m not making one of our favorite hot sauces with the hot black Hungarian peppers I grow, I also enjoy pickling them.
In the last few years, shishito peppers have easily become one of my favorite peppers to grow in my garden. They are compact pepper plants as far as pepper plants go but despite their small garden footprint, they are very prolific. I typically grow 2-3 …
In case you didn’t know it, I’m huge on Pinterest! Okay, well, my Pickled Hot Cherry Peppers recipe is huge, anyway. One of the things I miss most about living in Connecticut is being able to find both fresh and pickled cherry peppers at the …
We grew Trinidad Scorpion Peppers this year and they were pretty prolific, much more so than necessary, considering there are only so many of the second-hottest-peppers in the world you can eat I grew Ghost Peppers a few years ago and can tell you the …
Green bean overload happens every year in my garden, so it’s a good thing they freeze well. Another great way to preserve them is to pickle them in a spicy brine. Bloody Mary. Red Beer. Hot Tomato. Michelada. Bloody Caesar…if you like your vodka or beer with a bit …
It’s that time of year again! (I mean canning time, of course) First on the canning schedule this year was corn salsa (or corn relish, if you prefer). Skelly’s Farm Market, a local farm stand, is selling the sweetest, juiciest sweet corn right now and …