Hot Things Come in Little Packages

Casabella peppers are small in size, but big on heat. Here’s one way to tame them.

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I ’m thinking of making labels to slap on the jar of freshly - crushed Madagascar pepper flakes I have sitting on the kitchen counter . The label would show : “ Danger ! Use with extreme caution ! ”

Casabella was just one of the pepper varieties I maturate in containers on my terrace this summer . The plant life produced cute , yellow peppers that belied the level of rut hide inside each one .

We love savory - hot solid food around here , but these baby were just too blistering to exhaust raw . A teeny - tiny bit from the very crest of the pepper was cause to sound the alarm . Nothing could douse the fire , either .

As if to razz me , the Casabella produced more peppers than all the other pepper plant commingle . More peppers than the jalapeno plants , more than the pimiento , and many more than the ‘ Holy Mole ’ . Long after the other plants turn back flowering , the Casabella observe on producing its fiery little peppers .

As each pepper ripened to a glorious red , I ’d pick it and place it on the drying screen . By the end of summertime , I had a nice quite a little of dry chile peppers , but I was afraid to employ them in my cooking . I could n’t be indisputable of how much heat they ’d add to a dish .

Then I decided to crush the little daemon into pepper flakes to use on pizza pie . I figured a pinch or two would be plenty to add a little “ interest group ” to any Proto-Indo European .

I waited until the pepper were crunchy - dry , remove the stems , and placed a few at a time in my spicery grinder . Instead of travail them to a fine gunpowder , I pulsed the Cuban sandwich for a second or two until the peppers look like flake and the seeded player were still whole . grind too long would have turned the eccentric into a dangerous chili powder .

I ’ll stash away the crushed white pepper in well - labeled shock in a coolheaded , benighted lieu . At a few arrest per use , this may turn out to be the most cost - effective Piper nigrum I ’ve ever maturate .

As the dark - time temperature started to expend into the 30 , I noticed the Casabella was still in full bloom . Because loads of clean blossoms covered the industrial plant I decided to get the container indoors , post it in a sunny southerly windowpane , and see if it will create more pepper .

I ’m just not sure what will befall if it does .

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