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Tag Archives: hot sauce
Harvest Monday September 12, 2016
Welcome to Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. The late summer/early fall garden is giving us the usual colorful suspects in our harvest basket. In the below photo we have the Jester striped Acorn squash, along with … Continue reading
Posted in Harvest Monday
Tagged cherry tomatoes, eggplant, hot sauce, peppers, pickling, tomatoes, WEHT Local Lifestyles
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2015 Most Visited Pages
When I first started this blog back in 2009, I had no idea if anyone would even read it. I wasn’t exactly sure what I would blog about, though gardening and food were two things that came to mind. I … Continue reading
Monday Recap: Hot and Sweet
It’s pepper season here at HA, with both hot and sweet varieties making appearances in the harvest basket. I’ve been eagerly waiting to get enough ripe hot ones to make hot sauce, and last Friday was the day. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged composting, eggplant, hot sauce, lacto-fermentation, Monday Recap, peppers, pita, pole beans, Seminole squash, tomatoes
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Monday Recap: Peppers and Parsley
It would seem that September is prime pepper season here at HA. So many of them are ripening about now, and it has kept me busy with harvesting and processing. Many of them get photographed too, which is partly for … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged blueberries, caterpillars, cayenne, freekeh, hot peppers, hot sauce, Monday Recap, parsley, peppers, seed saving, sourdough, swallowtails, tabbouleh
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Homemade: Fermented Hot Sauce
Traditionally, hot pepper sauces have been made by fermenting a mash of chopped up peppers. Many of the world’s best known and most loved hot sauces are lacto-fermented before bottling, including Tabasco and sriracha. For the last few years I … Continue reading
Posted in Homemade, Preserving, Recipes
Tagged homemade, Hot Happy Yummy, hot peppers, hot sauce, lacto-fermentation, peppers
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