I’m fanatical about chillies and the flavour bring to a dish. The varieties that are available in the supermarket are fine, but they are limited to Thai Green Chillies and Scotch Bonnets in these parts. Sometimes you just need something else. Admittedly you only really need a few more flavours, but this year I’m trying […]
A Guide To Office Growing
Recently I made the leap from pyjama wearing freelancer to suited and booted desk jockey. With career improvement in mind, I’ve taken a job in the corporate world, or to be precise a business school. The move to back-office academia aside, the thing that I’m finding immediately difficult is going from my home comforts of […]
Recipe: Peach & Peppercorn Hot Sauce
Habenaroes are super awesome. They are hot, but have an underlying fruitiness to them which means that they go perfectly in a fruit-based sauce. But, whenever I see recipes for fruity hot sauces, they always seem to use an abundance of fresh fruit. That’s great if you live in an area where fruit is cheap […]
Recipe: No Cook Hot Sauce
I’m a proper chilli head, and currently grow a lot of chillies out on the roof terrace. I grow so many because I really enjoy turning them into hot sauce. But sometimes, let’s be honest, I’m a bit lazy in the kitchen. This recipe is the best thing to make if you have an abundance […]
DIY Solar Oven Out in the Sun
This week the weather is fabulous. As a result, we are having to water the plants twice a day, because otherwise the pots are drying out and the plants are wilting. That said, the sun does have its advantages. It’s happily ripening off the chillies, and it’s also helping to dry them too. Solar ovens are […]
Picking Purple Peppers and Other Garden Tasks…
Today we’ve spent some time on the balcony just having a general tidy up. At this time of year, things are starting to blossom and fruits are starting to form, and that’s all a bit bloody exciting if you ask me. Earlier in the year, when the cayenne peppers and the bell peppers (California Orange, […]
Homemade Tabasco Sauce
Oh man, this time of the year I get ridiculously excited every time I step out on my balcony. My little chilli patch is brimming with chillies and blooms, and I can’t wait until everything ripens off. I literally couldn’t wait… Yesterday I was at the French supermarket and saw that they had slashed their […]
Garden Update #3 – Sad Tomatoes
My last garden update detailed how brilliantly happy my tomatoes were. I had even trained them up a recycled pallet trellis, encouraged their first flowers out, and generally felt awesome for the trouble. And then we got a dose of the dreaded Powdery Mildew. The two biggest tomato plants are now ridiculously unhappy, and wilting […]
Growing Chillies Inside and Out
Chilli peppers are amazingly easy to grow. If you live in a cool climate, you can pop them on a south-facing window ledge, and they’ll thrive. Or, if you have a higher average outdoor temperature, they are also happy in full sun out in the garden. There are an abundance of different varieties, but here […]
Guide To Chilli Pepper Varieties
I like growing chilli peppers. They are really easy, and plentiful. They take up little space and grow as happily inside as they do out. All they want from life is sun, warmth, and the odd water. Consequently, I grow a lot of chillies. At the moment I have about 40 different plants, and about […]