Mmmm....Caprese Salad (Otherwise known as "Salmonella Be Damned!"

[nekosensei]

2 vine-ripened tomatoes
mozzarella
fresh basil
balsamic vinegar

Very tasty!

The only thing I grew myself was the basil. I hope to be making more of this once I get tomatoes from my garden. That's probably going to happen within the next couple of weeks.

By the way, here's a gardening question for my friends list. I'm also growing Cayenne peppers. (I'm sucking up because doomsey wants to fill in the garden with grass seed next year because he thinks I'm going to fail. He *loves* hot peppers). I already have a pepper on one of the plants. I'm not sure if it's ready to pick yet because it's still green. It's been out there for at least a week or two. Do I have to wait for it to turn red to pick it? When is that going to happen?







Okay...there were two. I lied.

Comments

peppers and dan

[forestdruid.livejournal.com]

You can pick the peppers when they are green. In fact, they will likely be hotter than they will when they are ripe. You essentially trade heat and a nice, fresh green flavor for a milder, more complex-rich one later. The hot oils are basically there to prevent anything with molars from eating the pepper. Birds, strangely enough, can eat all they want and are not affected. They tend to dribble a lot when they eat, and have a tendency to pass whole seeds through their digestive tract. Mice, on the other hand, would crush those seeds until they were quite dead and useless for reproduction.

Re: peppers and dan

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

Cool. I'll pick it soonish and feed it to him. He'll be very pleased.