Spicy is our video channel on YouTube. This Drunk Bananas Flambe recipe from Dave DeWitt’s 1001 Best Hot and Spicy Recipes is a childhood favorite of his to which he added the kick of chile pepper.
Ceylon Dark Curry Powder: Recipe
You’ve harvested and dried a buttload of red chiles. Now what? Sri Lankan curry powder.
Asian Chile Oil Recipe
Oils are another great use for all those chile peppers you grew this summer. This Asian take is good to have on hand with noodles in my opinion.
Oregano-Garlic Green Chile Vinegar: Recipe
I’m not a patient man unless it comes to barbecue. Even then, it’s an internal struggle between my personalities to keep myself from checking the smoker too often. Luckily, you don’t need patience to make good use of your chile harvest. Vinegars, oils, and extracts are all instant gratification for putting hot peppers to good use. This oregano-garlic green chile vinegar recipe is a good one, as are the others in this article.
Spicy Halloween Barbecue Sauce Recipe
Pumpkin barbecue sauce. Hit your tailgater buddies or the costumed drunks at your next Halloween party with that idea and see what they think.
Breadless Jalapeno Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipe
Years ago, Jack-in-the-Box ran an ad with the lines, “But why a bun? A bun’s neither meat nor cheese.” They were joking. I wasn’t when I stole the idea and used Yanni Jalapeno Grilling Cheese as the bread for this sandwich. The company makes two types of grilling cheese and my cheese-only grilled cheese sandwich idea seemed like a great test flight for their products.
Recipe: Smoked Pumpkin Chili
I also raised sugar pumpkins from seed, coaxing a dozen good ones from some top soil in the Los Angeles heat. There’s plenty more harvesting to be done, but if the early Halloween candy at my supermarket is any indication, fall is looming just up ahead. That’s why my first experiment with all this bounty is smoked pumpkin chili.
