The Chinese 5-Color Pepper Planting Guide
When to start Chinese 5-color pepper seeds, when to plant them out, how to water, feed and pick them, and how to grow one in a pot, with a zip code planner.
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The Red Savina Habanero Planting Guide
When to start Red Savina habanero seeds, when to plant them out, how to water, feed and pick them, and how to grow one in a pot, with a zip code planner.
The Bulgarian Carrot Pepper Planting Guide
When to start Bulgarian carrot pepper seeds, when to plant them out, how to water, feed and pick them, and whether they’ll ripen where you live, with a zip code planner.
The Fatalii Pepper Planting Guide
When to start fatalii pepper seeds, when to plant them out, how to grow them in a pot, and whether they’ll ripen where you live, with a zip code planner built on NOAA frost data.
The Hinkelhatz Pepper Planting Guide
When to start Hinkelhatz pepper seeds, when to plant them out, how to grow them in a pot and bring them in for the winter, and whether they’ll ripen where you live.
The Goat Pepper Planting Guide
When to start goat pepper seeds, when to plant them out, and whether they’ll ripen where you live, with a zip code planner built on NOAA frost data.
Pasilla de Oaxaca Vs. Pasilla: How Do They Compare?
They share a name and a dark, wrinkled look, so it’s easy to assume the pasilla de Oaxaca is just a fancier version of the everyday pasilla. It isn’t. Both bring an earthy, dried-fruit sweetness, but the Oaxacan one’s smoked over a wood fire for …
What’s A Good Pasilla de Oaxaca Substitute?
The pasilla de Oaxaca is a hard chili to replace. It’s smoked over a wood fire for days, so it brings deep smoke, a dark dried-fruit sweetness, and real heat all at once, somewhere around 15,000 to 20,000 SHU. It’s also grown only in Oaxaca’s …
Chipotle Powder Uses: What To Do With It Beyond Dry Rubs
Chipotle powder answers a question that comes up constantly in home cooking: how do you get real smoke into a dish that never goes near a fire? It is ground chipotle pepper, which is a jalapeño left on the plant until it turns red and …
What Is Chamoy?
Chamoy is a Mexican condiment that tastes sweet, sour, salty and a little spicy all at once, usually sold as a thick reddish-brown sauce made from dried fruit, chilies, lime and salt. It gets drizzled over mango, squeezed into a bag of chips, and swiped around the rim of a michelada glass. Here’s where chamoy came from, what’s actually in it, how spicy it really is, how it differs from Tajin, and what to do with a bottle once you have one at home.
