{"id":3240,"date":"2011-08-02T22:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T04:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:21:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:21:05","slug":"heat-wave-pickled-peppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=3240","title":{"rendered":"Heat Wave Pickled Peppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-follow synved-social-size-48 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DriftlessAppetite\" style=\"font-size: 0px; width:48px;height:48px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-follow\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" style=\"display: inline; 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width:48px;height:48px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rss\" title=\"Subscribe to our RSS Feed\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-follow\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" style=\"display: inline; width:48px;height:48px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/96x96\/rss.png\" \/><\/a><p>The peppers are growing profusely in\u00a0my garden right now.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a regular reader you&#8217;ll know that\u00a0one of my favorite pastimes is to complain about the weather.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been incredibly hot and humid here in the Driftless Area.\u00a0 Keith, Ollie Dog, and I only go out on walks after 10PM these days.\u00a0 Amidst\u00a0my whining\u00a0about the heavy heat, I managed\u00a0to make my first ever batch of pickled peppers.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite easy.\u00a0 I followed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlebovitz.com\/2009\/04\/pickled-peppers\/\">David Lebovitz&#8217; recipe<\/a>\u00a0and adapted it to the amount of peppers I had.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Banana,\u00a0Jalape\u00f1o, Cherry, and Cayenne Peppers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/peppers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3242\" title=\"peppers\" src=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/peppers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/peppers.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/peppers-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more-->\u00a0RECIPE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I made two 12 oz. jars.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ingredients<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>peppers (about a dozen pieces, mostly jalape\u00f1os)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1 c. water<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1 c. vinegar<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1\u00a0 heaping T. sugar<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1 heaping \u00a0T. salt<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>2 pieces bay leaves<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1 t. ground coriander<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1 T. whole black peppercorns<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prick the peppers with a fork or a knife then stuff them in the jars.\u00a0 Boil and simmer the rest of the ingredients for a few minutes.\u00a0 The sugar and salt should be dissolved.\u00a0 Pour brine into the jars.\u00a0 Cool then refrigerate.\u00a0 Wait at least a couple of weeks to taste.<\/p>\n<p>Future plans for these morsels:<\/p>\n<p>1. Stuff with cheese, coat with a thin batter, and fry.<\/p>\n<p>2. Use in salsa, soup, or sandwiches.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Eat as is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>My Heat Wave Pickled Peppers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pickledpeppers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3241\" title=\"pickledpeppers\" src=\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pickledpeppers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pickledpeppers.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pickledpeppers-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The peppers are growing profusely in\u00a0my garden right now.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a regular reader you&#8217;ll know that\u00a0one of my favorite pastimes is to complain about the weather.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been incredibly hot and humid here in the Driftless Area.\u00a0 Keith, Ollie Dog, and I only go out on walks after 10PM these days.\u00a0 Amidst\u00a0my whining\u00a0about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13],"tags":[304,305,306,307],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-home-cooking","tag-peppers","tag-pickle","tag-pickled","tag-spicy","has-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5916,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/5916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}