Pickled Hot Peppers

I love to eat hot peppers so I grow them in my garden. The thing is that nobody else in the family shares my zest for these tongue tingling treats.

At harvest time in late August I'll have plenty of peppers to save for the winter. I slice them sideways into rings and put them in jars then fill the jars with a hot brine. They will keep like this for years.

Over the past years I have had an abundance of peppers at the same time as having some other kind of veggie that needed storing. So I have experimented and added some of these to my pickled peppers and came up with some pretty cool (or hot) snacks.

I also took a recipe my wife has for hot dog relish and put my own ingredients. I had a bag full of jalapeno peppers that I grew that year and some excess apples from the orchard up the road. I went by the original recipe as far as the spices, salt and sugar are concerned. This made a very sweet mustard style relish with a big surprise.

After living in Tucson, Arizona when I was a teen, I became accustomed to eating salsa. To buy salsa is expensive as far as I'm concerned so I decided to try to make it myself. Which is what my wife and I do with most things. So I had one more way of preserving my peppers.

The experiments didn't stop there. I had a really good year for jalapenos a couple years back so I decided to try to dry them out. This worked well and so instead of crushed chilli peppers I had crushed jalapenos.

On this page I'll give you some recipes for peppers and maybe a few ideas that you never thought of for spicing up your meals.