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Showing posts with label preserving peppers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preserving peppers. Show all posts

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Promise to eat the whole thing?


Have you noticed that we regularly only eat baby lettuces, young beets,  and mini carrots all nicely diced already and sold in plastic bags?
Have you wondered what you were missing?

Ever since I've been growing most of our produce, I try to eat the entire plant, seeds and skin and all. I'm not sure of the advantages of keeping the skin on peppers and tomatoes as we roast them, but I do know that we are throwing away a whole lot of nutrients by discarding half of our plants.

I roast these tiny peppers until they are soft and malleable, tasting of the oil and the flakes of herbes-de-provence they were cooked with.  I pack these in oil and keep in the refrigerator to toss with pasta, process for salsa, or add to my frittata.

Better than the naked peppers you get in a jar at the supermarket.