Jalapenos I Grew: The Food Thread Part 2

[dlgoff]

Yes, please do.

I happened across a food show on TV a couple of days ago about Cajun foods. They indicated that just using a Cajun spices didn't make it Cajun. So I may have misspoken/mislabeled the baked zucchini. Anyway I overlooked another huge one and did it up the same way. Use liberal amounts of what you see on both sides letting it soak in for an afternoon. Then bake at 325°F for an hour. It may not be real Cajun, but you could have fooled me.

Edit: OOPS Wrong forum. Could you move it Evo? Sorry about that.

 

[Evo]

What do they think makes something cajun?

 

[dlgoff]

What do they think makes something cajun?

Mostly they were talking about real chilies instead of my "in the bottle" stuff. Shrimp and rice were used a lot also. They were mainly talking about foods in Louisiana where early on they just used about anything they could get their hands on that was locally grown or caught.btw: thanks for moving.

 

[Evo]

Mostly they were talking about real chilies instead of my "in the bottle" stuff. Shrimp and rice were used a lot also. They were mainly talking about foods in Louisiana where early on they just used about anything they could get their hands on that was locally grown or caught.btw: thanks for moving.

PISH.
No reason you can't use dried peppers, do they stop using peppers during the winter months?

Ohh, I am growing these.

Cajun Belle – The Cajun Belle is the ultimate pepper to have if you love the combination of sweet with heat. They average about 2″ in size, and have a seed core that is easy to remove. They make an incredible stuffed appetizer, are great to chop up in salads and salsa or chili, or to use on a sandwich. An added benefit of the Cajun Belle – they freeze really well and are great to pull out for use during those cold winter months. The plants are absolutely beautiful in the garden or landscape – filling up with 50 or more brightly colored peppers ranging from green to orange to bright red when fully ripe.

http://oldworldgardenfarms.com/2013...-to-grow-all-kinds-of-peppers-in-your-garden/

 

[dlgoff]

Ohh, I am growing these.

http://oldworldgardenfarms.com/2013...-to-grow-all-kinds-of-peppers-in-your-garden/

I'd like to try those also.

Today I bought the ingredients for "bread & butter pickles" but for peppers. I did this with jalapenos last summer and they were/are outstanding. You don't get the sweetness after they've aged/pickled. As a mater of fact there was enough left over liquid (along with last years remaining jalapenos) that I put the ones I've picked this year in there. I'm going to do this with the Hungarian Wax peppers. I have four plant of them that I had planed on using for salsa as they can get a little warm and even hot (don't know why they're called sweet). But since the tomatoes are so late coming on and I can't eat enough to keep up with them, I decided to pickle them too. Besides, that's a very simple and easy way to make use of them.

 

[Evo]

You could always grow a garden, or, pretend, to be an idiot.

One of the Chook kids from across the street, about 5 yo afaict, came over yesterday, and complimented my "flowers".
I currently have no flowers, so I was a bit confused, and asked him to point out a "flower".
He pointed at a tomato.

I gave him the tomato.

View attachment 87005
not the one, but a reasonable facsimile that I picked today​

Oh, that is so sad. There should be laws against doing that to a tomato. I don't know if I can even look you in the eye now OM.

 

[Evo]

The best little tomatoes I've grown was the grape tomato, OH MY! what great flavor, but that plant grew at least 100 feet, and put out large clusters of tomatoes constantly, you must grow one, you'll only need one plant.

 

[OmCheeto]

Oh, that is so sad. There should be laws against doing that to a tomato. I don't know if I can even look you in the eye now OM.

A bit too ripe?

But since the tomatoes are so late coming on and I can't eat enough to keep up with them, I decided to pickle them too.

I was just looking into pickling tomatoes a couple of days ago. Does that work with all sizes of tomatoes?

 

[dlgoff]

I was just looking into pickling tomatoes a couple of days ago. Does that work with all sizes of tomatoes?

Never tried to pickle tomatoes.
What I should have written to avoid confusion shown in red:

But since the tomatoes are so late coming on and I can't eat enough (of the peppers) to keep up with them, I decided to pickle them (the peppers) too.

 

[OmCheeto]

Never tried to pickle tomatoes.
What I should have written to avoid confusion shown in red:

Oh. Drats!
hmmmm...
Well, I read up on pickling tomatoes, but am too lazy to put together all those ingredients, so the only part of the procedure I followed was poking holes in the tomatoes.
As with my lemon yellow cucumbers, I simply put them in a half empty jar of store bought pickles.
hmmmm...
I put them in last night about 9 pm.
I just tried one, and it tastes like a tomato dipped in pickle juice.
I think this is a silly idea.

ps. Do not read the comments from the link I posted:
Connie Kisor; "What is 1.5 cups"?
Jaime; "a cup and a half"
Louise; "really"?

 

[OmCheeto]

Does anyone know how to make tomato sauce?

I cannot eat this many tomatoes...

 

[Evo]

Does anyone know how to make tomato sauce?

I cannot eat this many tomatoes...

What are the cd's?

 

[DiracPool]

Does anyone know how to make tomato sauce?

Just trip over it and be careful not impale yourself on that central pole

 

[OmCheeto]

What are the cd's?

The cd's are part of a parabolic reflector cooking system.
I no longer have a use for my tomato cages, so I repurposed one.

Although the experiment in outdoor cooking was a success, it's a bit of a pain to reposition all of those cd's every 20 minutes.
I'll keep working on it.

ps. Everything was manufactured using solar energy, and old AOL disks, that should have been in the garbage, decades ago.

 

[OmCheeto]

Just trip over it and be careful not impale yourself on that central pole

Two hours later...
Ok. Now I get it.

ps. The sauce it done! And it does not smell good!

 

[Evo]

Two hours later...
Ok. Now I get it.

ps. The sauce it done! And it does not smell good!

Wonders how tomato sauce can smell bad.

 

[OmCheeto]

Wonders how tomato sauce can smell bad.

I have only known tomatoes in two forms: Canned, and fresh.

hmmmm... Have you ever made beer before? It kind of stinks, really weird, the first time you make your first batch. I'm sure it's something along that line. So, I'm assuming my tomato sauce will be quite good, when I finally get around to using it.

 

[ZapperZ]

Made my baked empanadas last week for a friend's backyard pool party. The filling is ground beef, potatoes, onions, and petit green peas. It is cooked in curry spices, with added ground cumin and garam marsala.

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I must say, it went pretty well. I take as a compliment when a few people thought I used store-bought pastry. The pastry almost felt like puff pastry, because it was flaky and buttery. Of course, I used tons of butter to make the pastry, but it was the same one that I used for my pie shells. So I suppose this is more of a hand-held pie rather than empanadas, which are usually fried.

Zz.

 

[Borg]

Those look really tasty, ZapperZ.

 

[JorisL]

I might have to make them in 2 weeks or so.

 

[Evo]

Those look fabulous! You can just see how flaky that pastry is (wishes she lived near Zz).

 

[OmCheeto]

Made my baked empanadas last week for a friend's backyard pool party. The filling is ground beef, potatoes, onions, and petit green peas. It is cooked in curry spices, with added ground cumin and garam marsala.
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I must say, it went pretty well. I take as a compliment when a few people thought I used store-bought pastry. The pastry almost felt like puff pastry, because it was flaky and buttery. Of course, I used tons of butter to make the pastry, but it was the same one that I used for my pie shells. So I suppose this is more of a hand-held pie rather than empanadas, which are usually fried.

Zz.

I think this is the reason the food thread holds the record for me, for pushing the "unwatch thread" button.
It's like Chinese food*.
I ate two minutes ago, and after looking at this, I'm hungry again.
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*CFH: Chinese Food Hunger
hmmm... like we a needed a new disease:
PFTFTFHS: Physics Forums The Food Thread Food Hunger Syndrome.

 

[dlgoff]

Made my baked empanadas last week for a friend's backyard pool party. The filling is ground beef, potatoes, onions, and petit green peas. It is cooked in curry spices, with added ground cumin and garam marsala.

OMG Cooking classes must be a part of the curriculum for being a particle physicist.

 

[Astronuc]

Made my baked empanadas last week for a friend's backyard pool party. The filling is ground beef, potatoes, onions, and petit green peas. It is cooked in curry spices, with added ground cumin and garam marsala.

So where is the recipe or instructions?

Meanwhile - How to Make the Best Lemon Bars Ever
https://www.yahoo.com/food/how-to-make-the-best-lemon-bars-ever-125846446609.html

 

[ZapperZ]

So where is the recipe or instructions?

It's difficult to give a recipe because, other than the pastry, I didn't use any. That's why I only listed the ingredients. Everything else was based on "feel". I had to tone down the amount of curry powder used because there were people at the party who were less tolerant of spicy food. So I had to guess on how much to use.

Zz.

 

[Astronuc]

I was thinking they look more like Cornish pasties. One could add turnip or rutabaga with or without the potato. I presume the beef and potatoes were diced?

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Made my baked empanadas last week for a friend's backyard pool party. The filling is ground beef, potatoes, onions, and petit green peas. It is cooked in curry spices, with added ground cumin and garam marsala.

Zz.

I'm drooling now! If you took a photo showing one's insides along with some fruits to eat with, I'll wet my T-shirt's chest.

 

[ZapperZ]

I was thinking they look more like Cornish pasties. One could add turnip or rutabaga with or without the potato. I presume the beef and potatoes were diced?

There are certainly a lot of similarities.

The beef were ground, but the potatoes were diced. So were the onions. The taste of the filling also has some resemblance to Indian samosas. This is because, besides the curry, cumin, and garam marsala powders that I used, I also fried cumin seeds, fennel seeds, and mustard seeds in the oil before adding those other spices. So the underlying flavor has strong resemblance of those indian samosas.

Zz.

 

[Evo]

There are certainly a lot of similarities.

The beef were ground, but the potatoes were diced. So were the onions. The taste of the filling also has some resemblance to Indian samosas. This is because, besides the curry, cumin, and garam marsala powders that I used, I also fried cumin seeds, fennel seeds, and mustard seeds in the oil before adding those other spices. So the underlying flavor has strong resemblance of those indian samosas.

Zz.

Oh, that sounds so good.

 

[Astronuc]

Inexpensive, but tasty and nutritious, dishes for a limited budget

https://www.yahoo.com/food/this-cookbook-shows-you-how-to-eat-well-on-just-4-126911201931.html
http://www.leannebrown.com/