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Homegrown Creations

Got some of John's Jalapeno Lime salt today and it's amazing. Really great flavor, can't wait to put it in tacos and some other things I have planned this week. Awesome, thank you sir!
 
Sounds like that would be awesome on the rim of a margarita glass.
 
Only pussies drink margaritas.

(real men drink fruity-beer and watermelon martinis)
 
Man - I grew some Ghost Peppers (among other hot peppers) this summer, including one called Carolina Reaper which is a late season pepper still ripening - which is supposedly hotter than Ghosts. Sliced up a Ghost and am nibbling on it right now. Damn! Effing incredible how intense it is. You really need to try it. Amazing part is, it's very flavorful - I actually crave it sometimes. It may be a case of 'it feels so good when I stop' :)

I'm making several flavored salts with these superhots. I am really looking forward to trying them. I'm basically burying the superhots sliced up in salt. The salt pulls all of the oils and liquids out of the peppers, and then I'll dehydrate the whole mixture along with some fresh garlic, and grind the finished product again to produce the salt. I cant wait to try the finished product. Happy to share with anyone who wants a sample.
 
Finished a big batch of flavored salts tonight. One batch of tabasco pepper salt, another of Ghost pepper salt. Pretty powerful stuff :) I will bring some to give out at the BGO Tailgate for anyone that wants some.
 
Recently bought a nice dehydrator to dry peppers with. Dried some apples yesterday, came out great. Bought some inexpensive beef and doing some jerky tonight. 3 styles. First one is a sweet teriyaki with a dose of homemade hot sauce in it. Second one is flavored with a mix of a little soy and a healthy spoonful or two of Ghost Pepper salt. Third one is most interesting, soaking the beef in my some homemade grapeleaf dill brine.

I love jerky. Looking forward to trying all 3.
 
I'm slow getting into this thread, but I just polished off the only batch of an experiment that I made that was awesome. My friend out in Charlottesville grows Fuji apples. She sent me some, I dried them out. I threw them in a food processor to make them a little smaller, but not too small. I also smoked and dried some Tobasco peppers, and did the same with those. I also grew my own peppercorns for pepper, and cured those in sugar for 3 weeks, took them out of the sugar, and mixed all the ingredients together in a pepper mill with some Himalayan pink salt.

It. Was. Epic.

I used most of it to coat a London Broil, and it was so damn good I almost asked my wife to leave so we could have a moment alone :laugh:

Now that I know how good it is, I can make a few truckloads next near and send out some care packages to everyone with tastebuds who wants to give it a whirl. But you gotta wait, because I don't have enough of anything left to make any more. And that makes me sad.
 
Well, first of all, I'm pretty much the only other person IN this thread, so you're hardly late...

I've got a ton of pepper salt. I've given thought to adding some other ingredients. You're making me want to combine my pepper salt and dried apples. I dont think I'll do it, but you are tempting me :)

I am thinking about adding brown sugar, paprika, and garlic to some of my red pepper salt to make a rib rub. I think that might happen...
 
And most importantly, you grew our own peppercorns? I need to know about that. I have never known anyone to do that, and I looking for a mentor. Already committed to growing my own hops next spring, would love to grow my own peppercorns...
 
Peppercorns take forever. I planted them in planters in 2010 and just got peppercorns this year. It is a slow process. You can't plant them in the ground in this region, because as soon as it frosts, or stays below 65 for an extended time period, they will die. You need to be able to move them in and out of the house, and have a spot in the house that gets a ton of sunlight. Also, the amount you have to water them seems borderline excessive, but they need it to keep growing and produce. I just hate that it took so long to get the first peppercorns, the guy who sold me the plants when they were small said it would take a few years, but I thought he was exaggerating :laugh:
 
Nobody said:
Now that I know how good it is, I can make a few truckloads next near and send out some care packages to everyone with tastebuds who wants to give it a whirl. But you gotta wait, because I don't have enough of anything left to make any more. And that makes me sad.
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Yes, please. :)

Boone said:
I am thinking about adding brown sugar, paprika, and garlic to some of my red pepper salt to make a rib rub. I think that might happen...
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Yes, please, as well. :)
 
You're damn right I am.
I have heavy weapons.
I know how to kill stuff.
I grow most of my own vegetables.

But most importantly, I know how to make my own beer.

The future...it's mine. All miiiiine.
 
Fear The Spear said:
Boone is sooo ready for Doomsday.
Bein all self-sufficient, and survivalistic, and stock-piling all his jars :)
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A friend of mine is a demolition expert in the Army. He got stationed out in California and went full on nuts. He believes everything Alex Jones says, he believes every conspiracy theory that comes along, he built an addition to the house hi parents bought him just to store weapons and ammunition in, and he bought 45 pallets of mason jars to jar food. He has clearly lost his ****, but swears it's all just a hobby and he's not a prepper :laugh:

I only thought about this because of the stockpiling jars comment lol.

A funny side note about his home addition - when he came back from a tour earlier in the year, his first night back his house was broken into. He has a wife and four young daughters, and heard the commotion of someone trying to break in - and picked the room that was the addition. When he realized what room they were attempting to enter, he woke his wife up so she could share in the joy of the horror the would be burglar was about to experience. You see, he has just about every legal weapon imaginable in that room, thousands of rounds of ammunition, grenades.....and he shares the space with his wife who uses her portion of the room to raise pythons. The commotion went on for a few minutes before the guy gained entry, then he said there was a few seconds of silence, a shrill shriek, and a guy bolting down the street like Carl Lewis. Shock and awe. You can only imagine the load of **** in that guy's pants when he realized what type of house he had just broken into :laugh:

Oh, and on the jars note, this weirdo pickles everything, even food that has no business being pickled. Just in the past few months, he pickled all the normal stuff, but also squash, eggplant, watermelon.......I get sick thinking about it.
 
Nobody said:
then he said there was a few seconds of silence, a shrill shriek, and a guy bolting down the street like Carl Lewis.
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Hard to believe a guy with a personality like that, resisted the urge to shooot away, but rather just let the "sight" of the guns do the talking.
I would imagine your friend to do something similar to this character

 
I'd love to be more involved in this thread, but without anywhere to really grow veggies, its tough. John's home made salts are intriguing though...seems like something that I could do fairly easily.
 
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