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Re: tomatoes and jalapenos

At 12:44 PM 8/29/97 -0500, nonayobusiness wrote:
>-- [ From: nonayobusiness * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --
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>Hello!  If I harvest all these big fat jalapeno's, how would you suggest
>that I dry them? 

This URL has really good instructions for drying jalapenos and other peppers:
http://neptune.netimages.com/~chile/drying.html

from the great Chile-heads web site with lots of great pepper info.

 Or could I grind them up in the blender and freeze the
>mush?  Would I add a little water to make  the stuff get blended properly? 
>The most common thing we make with  jalapenos is a kind of green sauce that
>is Yemenite, and it has lots of coriander  and is really good on top  of
>hummous  on pita, and  on lots of other stuff too.  So I don't think I
>should dry  them.

I grate and freeze zucchini and summer squash for use in baking, the
important think is to drain as much of the water as possible first.  You
might be able to pack peppers ground in oil in the refrigerator for a few
weeks--kind of like pesto.  Warning: I've done pesto this way, it keeps
well for several weeks, I haven't tried peppers.  Would you post the recipe
for your Yemenite jalapeno green sauce?--we love making and eating Middle
Eastern mezzah type dishes--this sounds really good.  Thanks.

>
>As far as tomatoes, if we get a summer where they don't want to ripen, what
>we've done is make a sort of tent that goes over the plants that is covered
>with thick, see through plastic that you can get in a do it yourself store.
> The way we did this was to make 2 x's with the intersection  of the x
>above the tops of the tomato stakes.  Each of these were shoved into the
>soil at the end of the row.  Then we put a long piece of wood resting on
>the X's.  Over this, we draped the plastic.  We weighted the  plastic down
>at each side, on the ground, with  rocks and old pieces of wood.  On the
>ends we stapled triangles of plastic so the whole thing  was sealed up.  
>To get in, we just took the weights off of one side and flipped the plastic
>up.  This worked great, and we were picking fresh tomatoes right up until
>the end of November.  The biggest problem was that it was real humid in
>there, and a billion slugs sought refuge inside.  I also always grow a
>bunch of Sweet Million Cherry tomatoes  because they always seem to start
>ripening no matter what Mother Nature throws our way.  Also, they are the
>only ones that my kids like, because they  are so SWEET!

I'm with you on the Sweet Millions.  I like your description of the
"plastic tent cloches".  

Happy weekend one and all.  I'm staying home to work in the garden.

Havi
Havi Hoffman
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