Fruit From the Arledge

Here are the peppers I salvaged from the dying Arledge last week.


As I said on my flickr page:
I cut these off the dying Alredge Heirloom back on July 9th. At that time, only two of the peppers were a fully ripened red. All the other were kind of, to really green. So I used an Alton Brown trick, and put the green ones in a paper bag with a banana. Though I do not remember the exact process, I think it has something to do with what the growers of the bananas spray on them to speed up the ripening process. In the paper bag, the banana gives off some of the stuff, and few days later, more then half of the peppers are now ripe. The others were just too young.

I'll need to do something with the ripe ones pretty damn quick, because they will go bad in a couple of days. I think I'm going to throw most them in the blender and make a hot sauce. I'll keep a couple of them to use in a salsa. My bro says he'll use the green ones in a really good jambalaya he makes. If the hot sauce turns out good, to quote Hyde on That 70's Show, "I'm gonna be super-pissed!" We shall see...