You can grow chilies – even with little space. If you love heat in your culinary creations, you’ll be happy to know that growing hot peppers in containers is not only possible, but easy. It doesn’t matter what your chili of choice is – whether jalapeño, habanero, …
A five-minute smoked paprika aioli made with mayonnaise, garlic and lemon, plus which smoked paprika to buy, how to make it hotter or smokier, and what to serve it with.
Is hot sauce good for you? What’s in a teaspoon of eight popular sauces, how much sodium they carry, and what the research on weight loss, longevity, cancer and your stomach does and doesn’t show.
Habanero peppers are hot, make no mistake. They’ll kick you around. But a Carolina Reaper? It’s like a solar flare erupted in your esophagus. Yes, there’s a humongous heat difference here, but is there more to compare? How different do they taste? Does the heat act similarly? What about products in the marketplace? We dive in with another PepperScale Showdown.
Don’t be lured in by the cartoon alligator on the label to thinking this is some mild mannered mix. Gator Bite hot sauce by Pepper Palace will bite…and bite hard. Its mix of smoky sweet habanero pepper and cayenne, along with gritty Cajun spices, has surprising depth. There is big heat in a bottle, too, so be ready for its teeth.
A Mediterranean spicy kick! Hummus and chili peppers, like jalapeños, go very well together. It’s the combo of beans and lime juice – the earthy and tart – that go so well with the spice. Best of all, creating a delicious spicy dip, like this …
What the cayenne pepper diet, also called the Master Cleanse, involves, what’s in the lemonade, what the research says about weight loss and detox, and who should skip it.
So you’re looking for something spicy to pep up your meal, and you have cayenne and paprika in the spice rack. Is one better than the other? Spicier? Is one sweeter than the other? Earthier?
For two powders that look a lot alike, there are some definite differences to consider before adding a dash to your dish. We break it down in our PepperScale showdown: cayenne pepper vs. paprika.
Drying chili peppers is an easy way to prolong the life of your favorite peppers. Once dried, you can store them in the freezer for use throughout the year or grind them into a seasoning blend. Drying enables you to keep chilies that would normally only stay fresh for a few days on the counter or a couple of weeks in the fridge for far longer.
Properly stored dried chili peppers can keep for up to a year in the freezer and longer as a spice.
A chili pepper is the fruit of a Capsicum plant, and botanically it’s a berry. Here’s why we cook it like a vegetable, where chilies came from, the five species and what makes them hot.
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