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We have mostly gone to paste and freezing in recent years. Mortar and pestle used for both dry and fresh.

Thai Peppers

I have a ton of Thai peppers. What do you folks do with them ? Any recipes for sauces that can be canned ? I figured I would dry some but I have a lot.

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Today I went through the tomatoes I picked a few days ago. Family Wants tomatoes to eat, but doesn't Always eat them, and I don't want them to rot, So...I harvested from my meager tomato patch and I have them dehydrating. One of my Marconi Sweet Peppers looked like it might be past it soon, so I gave it it's one tray on top.
I harvested 4 more okra--4/15 harvested this weekend--and I had to start a 3rd quart freezer bag. Good news bc I need 4 quarts for the Thanksgiving turkey. Remember, my DD inadvertently--just tap the seeds out on the east side of the cistern, which I had prepped right before my surgery--and she planted them mid July, and I got 15, maybe 16 surviving plants that are fruiting now.

 

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Serrano peppers and the jar will be gifted to my good friends who started the Salsa Parties with me. They love hot peppers, but I don't think they planted any this year.
The dehydrated tomatoes go to my middle DD. She hasn't grown that many tomatoes, has been hot water bath canning this year, and I think will go for a deeper container like my 100 gal leaky horse trough next year. HER raised bed containers are only about 14 inches deep, better for salad vegetables like lettuces and onions and radishes, or even cabbage.

 

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While I wait for my new dishwasher--October 15th--I am missing the top of the old one, which has been an extra countertop for me. I pulled up a round table from the basement for party staging--even got a compliment for doing so from youngest DD!
I have another old table that is full of old inherited glassware. There's a winter project, to box up in wine boxes and label the glassware and store in the fuel room in the basement, steal the table for my south facing 2nd story window. I just ordered that Arp Certified Organic Rosemary and I can keep it going there, along with the pot of basil, now outside, and see about getting more herbs growing there. I think I can overwinter catproof them with some cheap metal garden edging that I have...
NEXT year I reclaim my herb garden and I will plant the rosemary there.

 

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Picked up my Lowe's order, which included an attachment to the hot water faucet that the new dishwasher needs to operate. DOES fit, but there is an aerator?...not sure what to do with it, but I will put that issue off until early next week.
Finished dehydrating tomatoes and added the one dehydrated Sweet Marconi pepper to a new jar. As I recall thte sweet peppers lose their punch in about one year, the hot peppers get Hotter, and last year's dehydrated tomatoes still smell great.
Gotta label, but they do look a lot alike. I was surprised at how the tomatoes filled almost a quart and a pint's worth.

 

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Picked up my Lowe's order, which included an attachment to the hot water faucet that the new dishwasher needs to operate. DOES fit, but there is an aerator?...not sure what to do with it, but I will put that issue off until early next week.
Finished dehydrating tomatoes and added the one dehydrated Sweet Marconi pepper to a new jar. As I recall thte sweet peppers lose their punch in about one year, the hot peppers get Hotter, and last year's dehydrated tomatoes still smell great.
Gotta label, but they do look a lot alike. I was surprised at how the tomatoes filled almost a quart and a pint's worth.View attachment 78222

Beautiful work! It's so satisfying seeing preserved foods that you bottled yourself!