OT Gardening

[Shaboid]

Shaboid's ShaBAM Sauce!

Peter's Pepper Sauce, after my son.

 

[crandc]

Pumpkin bread

 

[crandc]

Damn! My back yard is against a high wall that separates it from adjacent street. There are blackberries growing over wall that I pick. Good eating. Today all the brambles were gone! City apparently had landscapers cut them back. They will grow again, blackberries always do, but could be a year before I have berries.

 

[crandc]

Tomatoes

 

[crandc]

Elizabeth Taylor and John F. Kennedy.

Don't know if they ever met in person.

 

[crandc]

Oklahoma! (Exclamation point part of name, from the song)

 

[PDXFonz]

Really expanded our production this year. This was about 50%

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Haha, I love the edit.

Looks great man. Isn’t it crazy the price difference of making your own sauce compared to buying some from the store?

My Habanero didn’t produce as much as I was hoping, but I supplemented it with some store bought Hab’s and the ingredients together weren’t more than $14. Yielded around 7 bottles of sauce from a small batch production. Most sauces are going to run you around $10-$12 for one bottle!

Looks like the left is a Jalapeño sauce and the right is Habanero or Ghost pepper? Do you have a smoker?

For my Habanero sauce I used Apple Cider as the vinegar base as I’ve done in the past. The flavor of apple cider vinegar is strong but it doesn’t overpower the flavor of the habaneros. I like it because it’s different than the distilled flavor you find in most sauces. I keep it simple and few ingredients. Habanero, Fresh apples, Carrot, Garlic, Salt, Apple Cider vinegar.

I take the tops off the habaneros and throw them on the smoker with the peeled garlic for about 2 hours to give them a light smoky flavor. Then basically just throw everything in a food processor until it’s liquified, cook it on the stove to a boil, and then bottle it.

I bought my bottles on Amazon years ago and try to keep them cleaned to re-use them. Yours look similar to mine.

Thanks for sharing and enjoy!

 

[PDXFonz]

Oklahoma! (Exclamation point part of name, from the song)

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Love the Roses Crandc, I bet they look wonderful in the yard.

 

[PDXFonz]

I feel like my habanero start was just planted too late in the season. The plant is looking great, it’s grown a lot and shows much better opportunity for fruiting and producing more fruit - but I realize we are also past the season for it to do so.

I want to try to preserve it for next year, but I’m pretty sure it will die outside as it gets colder out.

I’m wondering if there is any possibility I can keep it alive inside and care for it until next summer when I can hopefully put it out and get 3-4x the production I had out of it this year.

I guess I’ll try it and see how it goes.

 

[Shaboid]

Haha, I love the edit.

Looks great man. Isn’t it crazy the price difference of making your own sauce compared to buying some from the store?

My Habanero didn’t produce as much as I was hoping, but I supplemented it with some store bought Hab’s and the ingredients together weren’t more than $14. Yielded around 7 bottles of sauce from a small batch production. Most sauces are going to run you around $10-$12 for one bottle!

Looks like the left is a Jalapeño sauce and the right is Habanero or Ghost pepper? Do you have a smoker?

For my Habanero sauce I used Apple Cider as the vinegar base as I’ve done in the past. The flavor of apple cider vinegar is strong but it doesn’t overpower the flavor of the habaneros. I like it because it’s different than the distilled flavor you find in most sauces. I keep it simple and few ingredients. Habanero, Fresh apples, Carrot, Garlic, Salt, Apple Cider vinegar.

I take the tops off the habaneros and throw them on the smoker with the peeled garlic for about 2 hours to give them a light smoky flavor. Then basically just throw everything in a food processor until it’s liquified, cook it on the stove to a boil, and then bottle it.

I bought my bottles on Amazon years ago and try to keep them cleaned to re-use them. Yours look similar to mine.

Thanks for sharing and enjoy!

You nailed it; jalapeno/serano, and habanero/Aleppo, using a pretty similar recipe with the apple cider vinegar. I agree that it gives a different taste, might be a PNW thing haha.

I do have access to a smoker but we haven't tried any of that yet. Next year, maybe, cuz I like the idea of it. We had one family member growing for us this summer but should have another next year.

Yup, Amazon for bottles.

We did dry a bunch of our random variety the last couple months and ordered a spice grinder that we're gonna mess with some seasoning salts, rubs, or paprikas.

As far as overwintering you plants, you can definitely give it a shot. We've never done it ourselves because just like you did, habs are easy to source towards the end of the summer. They have a 6 month growth cycle and it just wasn't as consistently hot this year I feel like.

 

[crandc]

Le Petit Prince and Queen of Elegance