Dragon Cayenne Ketchup

Or…what to do with all those dried dragon cayenne peppers! This pepper based sauce is good on anything. Use it as you would BBQ sauce for flavoring chicken wings, drummettes or fingers, burgers or hot dogs. Dunk your fries in it, or mix it into dips for a fiery flavor. It is a quick, easy…

Hot Sauce!

A simple recipe to make hot sauce at home! I used a variety of green peppers for this, as it lends a depth of flavor you wouldn’t get with just jalapeno. For this batch I harvested the remainder of my cowhorn, jalapeno and dragon cayenne peppers. Place one half pound of clean stemmed peppers, cut…

Dried Dragon Cayenne Peppers

Two weeks ago I posted about harvesting my Dragon Cayenne peppers. They have been sitting out on my kitchen counter, covered by a piece of parchment and are in the drying process. I needed some red pepper flakes for a recipe today, so I chose the peppers dry enough to crush, placed them in my…

Cayenne & Sage Harvest

Cayenne~ It’s hot here! The part of summer when the garden starts to dry out and look mangy no matter how much water you give it. The time when the peppers and herbs thrive and take off! Cayenne peppers are easy to grow. They like our summer Georgia heat and mine have done well even…