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Your Stuffing Can Do Double Duty
In the kitchen recently, we were looking for a healthier meal option and decided on chicken. Chicken, as we all know, can be a bit boring though it is quite fabulous when properly prepared. Luckily, there are many options for spicing it up. This time, we opted for stuffed chicken breasts. Since there are only 2 of us, I went about preparing what I felt was a proper amount of stuffing for a couple of large breasts, including some jalapeno peppers, an apple, some Parmesan cheese, a bit of Italian sausage for extra flavor and some seasonings.
Searing Meatloaf to Seal in Flavor
Meatloaf is great, isn’t it? Meatloaf is one of those meals that is difficult to mess up, unless you overcook it. With so many types of ground meats, seasonings and flavors available to you, the recipe combinations are limitless. Here’s a simple trick to bring it to a new level: searing.
Lobster with Spicy Vodka Sauce
Vodka Sauce is a popular sauce in Italian cuisine, and quite delicious. It’s one of Jalapeno Miss’ favorite sauces, so at her request I worked one up in the kitchen, but there were two requirements: 1. It had to be served with lobster, and 2. It had to be spicy, but not too spicy!
Chili Pepper Gardening – May
May is upon us and as the aphorism goes, ”April showers bring May flowers”, which means it’s time to be thinking about the garden. Pretty much no matter where you live in the US, you should have already started your chili peppers from seeds unless you’ll be buying seedlings for your garden. We are in the Chicago area (zone 5) and still have several weeks prior to transplanting but we have plenty going on inside with about a dozen different types of chili peppers going.
An Interview with Butch Taylor, propagator of the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, World’s Hottest Chili Pepper
The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T – Hottest Chili Pepper in the World – 1,463,700 Scoville Units
Butch Taylor, owner of Zydeco Hot Sauce, has been growing and working with super hot chili peppers since 1990. Back then, his work was primarily with habanero peppers. After growing peppers for years he was able to grow a pepper that was hotter than the then world’s hottest pepper (the Red Savina) but that pepper wasn’t stable so his quest continued. He grows super hot chili peppers on his deck and in his garden, and plans to sell some through his web site and at future industry shows.
Check out more at our Chili Pepper Madness Blog.
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