In Need of Some Heat

Hot or not?

I picked these up at the Atsugi Commissary yesterday, only because they were so pretty. We like a lot of spice in our dishes, but I knew these weren't going to be hot just by smelling them. After I paid for them I bit one in half and absolutely nothing. It had a slight bell pepper taste, but that's it. Anyway, I was thinking of drying them out and then planting them to see what I get. I've done this before with a very HOT pepper and I actually thought I would get a very HOT pepper plant out of the dried seeds. Well, I didn't. I got a bunch of purple flowers instead. I don't know how, but I did. Someone told me that I had to make sure the seeds were completely dry. I guess the seeds weren't DRY when I planted them. The purple flowers were nice, but useless. Haha... oh well. We'll see what I get with these.

---------------- I might take one bunch and grind it up with a little vinegar, garlic and salt. I'll see what happens with that. I did make the same mixture with a not-so-hot pepper bunch before and it actually brought out a lot of it's heat. It ended up being hotter than I wanted. Sooooo... we'll see. I'll let you know.