I was tending my garden last night and was marveling over the plants that
had little chiles on them. I saw that my Long Red Cayennes (which are not
long or red at this point) had several plants that had a number of peppers
on them, around 2-2.5 inches long. Remembering that if you want the plant
to produce more peppers, you pick off the first few so that not all the
effort goes into them. Soz I pick one. I look at it and see that it is
rather small and what to do. NEVER waste a pepper my head sez. And I
figured that there would be little if any heat so......I took a BIG chomp.
HOLY SCHMUCKENDROPS! That little baby was hot my friends! I was soooo
happy. My husband was quite surprised at how much heat they packed as
well. I have always loved the flavor of fresh cayennes. I had some on my
homemade pizza today, what a delite after having to use my dried ones from
last year or hot sauce.
So, the moral of the story........still waters run deep, you can't tell a
book by it's cover, you only have one chance to make a first impression,
treasure every chile you grow!
BTW, I threw in a half doz of Garden Salsa peppers. They produced early
and the peppers get fairly long but no heat. My anahiem did the
same.......maybe all the heat went to the cayennes. Cann't wait til the
Jalapenos, serranos, and habs come on.
Linda Reynolds
"having great weather in upstate NY Judy......80's during the day and this
week it's been in the 50's at night.........but the taxes will kill ya"!