Harvesting Ghost Peppers

The Ghost Peppers or Bhut Jolokia, look great!  The plants are loaded right now

 

Ghost Peppers ready for harvest. Now what do I do!

 

with green, orange and yes, red fruit.  As the pepper ripen they change

colors from green to orange to red.    I have been watching the plants

all summer  with a healthy respect for the unusual crop they bear.

This is the hottest pepper in the world and I have been eyeing them

from a distance,  they seem to carry a mystery about them!

I am just not sure what to do with these peppers!

Jalapenos can be as hot as 8,000 SHU (Scoville Heat Units), habaneros

can be as hot as 350,000 SHU, with Ghost Peppers checking in at 1,000,000 SHU,

the hottest pepper in the world!

We have 2 Chipotle Peppers Sauces  and 3 Pepper Jams that we make here at the

winery with the jalapeno peppers that we grow on the farm. And those sauces range from

mildly hot to hot!  I use my habanero peppers in a tonic that ages with garlic, horseradish,

onions and vinegar that builds the immune system!  Wow, is it hot, but really good!

So what am I going to do with these Ghost Peppers?  They are ready for harvest.

Has anyone every used them?  I would be interested in hearing how you have used these peppers.

Relaxing Dinner on the Patio with Farm Crafted Cuisine

Cliff and I had an impromptu dinner on the patio a few weeks ago.  We took two pot pies out of the freezer and

put them in the wood fired oven and waited on the patio with a glass of wine.  This was a great combination!

Just a hint of smoke from the remains of a hot pizza baking fire and plenty of bubbling juice

oozing out of the whole wheat crust, made this a wine pairing experience!  Cliff had the

beef and I had the chicken pot pie  and the Chardonnel was a perfect match.

Farm Crafted Pot Pies baked in the Wood Fired Oven

As you can see, it was such a relaxing dinner, with some tomatoes from our container tomatoes, Tumbling Tom.  This tomato only needs a 1 gallon size container, and it produces!

We have a Tomato Tower with 30 container tomato plants growing on it.  The tower looks like a Christmas tree with green plants and little

red balls.  These tomato plants can be grown in a 12″ container, so they do well in this tower.  We already picked the first flush, and they were great

in a tomato, cucumber, basil and onion salad with an olive oil dressing.  I will get a picture of the tower with  the second flush of yellow blossoms out in the next blog.

These plants  love this heat we have been having and do very well with regular watering in the towers.  They are indeterminate

and will produce until frost.  I like that!