veg
Foraging Pepper
Garden escapees, late summer/fall.
What to do with it
- Eat raw or roasted
- Blister in a hot pan
- Dry and grind to flakes
Ways to keep it
- Fermented hot sauce
- Pickle (vinegar)
- Dry & grind to flakes
- Freeze whole
About Pepper
Capsicum () is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae, native to the Americas, cultivated worldwide for their edible fruit, which are generally known as "peppers" or "capsicum". Chili peppers grow on five species of Capsicum. Sweet or bell peppers and some chili peppers are Capsicum annuum, making it the most cultivated species in the genus.
From Wikipedia.
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