This habanero is my first beautiful thing for today. Because of the drought, that we have had, the wildlife have been eating most of my food producing plants. In fact, They brokethis pepper plant and the jalapeño pepper plant. These plants are important to me because my husband loves peppers and I only planted a couple to help us make it through the year for him. So, this beautiful pepper is amazing to me! #firstbeautifulthing #gratitude #habenero #jaxwelborn (at Pulaski County, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChDCkE3u69n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Intensely Spicy Curry Training: Hypmic Curry Drama Track TL
Kuukou: Y’all sure took your sweet time getting here! I’ve already got everything prepared!
Jyushi: But didn’t you tell us to meet you at the temple?
Hitoya: If we’re making curry, why the hell are we way out in the mountains to do it?
Kuukou: Because I just had a great idea. Check this out!
Jyushi: Ooooh, look at all this meat! So, we’re going to be using all of this in our curry?
Hitoya: Beef and chicken, huh? I guess it would make sense not cook these while inside your temple.
Kuukou: You’re half right, and half wrong.
Jyushi: What do you mean?
Kuukou: I don’t plan to make just any ol’ curry. Now it’s time for the both of y’all to mince the hell out of this meat!!
Hitoya: I didn’t know whether to expect if a corrupt little monk such as yourself knew how to cook, but I’m surprised. Instead of using something pre-made, if we pound and mince the meat ourselves, we’d get a far more superior product. Is that what you were thinking?
Jyushi: Oh, I see! That’s amazing, Kuukou-san!
Hitoya: So, where’d you put the food processor?
Kuukou: Ah?? The hell are you on? You’re grinding this meat with your bare hands.
Jyushi: …Eh?
Kuukou: Jyushi, you’re on beef! Hitoya, you’re taking the chicken! Punch it with everything you’ve got and make minced meat out of it!! This is a new training session I thought up!
Hitoya: What the hell is this fool saying??
Jyushi: B-But there’s so much meat!! Grinding it by hand is impossible!!
Kuukou: I don’t want to hear any complaints!! You don’t know that unless you try!
Jyushi & Hitoya: *reluctantly pounds the meat by hand*
Jyushi: *tearfully* …My body’s going to become minced meat before the actual beef!
Hitoya: Damn it, I can’t believe I let my guard down like this…! I shouldn’t have expected we’d simply make curry…!
Kuukou: You can’t expect to get anywhere with a weak spirit behind weak fists like that!! Lemme show you how it’s done!
Kuukou: *starts punching*
Hitoya: You bastard, those are vegetables!!
Jyushi: E-Even I could mince a tomato by hand!
Kuukou: It doesn’t matter either way!! Whether it’s vegetables or meat, all that matters is the heart you’re putting behind it!!
Jyushi: T-That doesn’t make any sense…!!
Kuukou: “Enlightenment can be attained through one thousand fists!” Don’t just keep yapping and put some energy into your hips and legs too!
Hitoya: Tch, I don’t see any way out of this… Then, I might as well get it over with…!! UWOOOOOOOOOAAAARRRRGHHHH!!!!!!!! *maximum effort punching*
Jyushi: H-Hitoya-san??
Kuukou: Hyahaha! There’s the effort I wanna see!
Jyushi: Guh… Because My God has unshackled the chains binding his true power, I, too, must unlock mine to continue alongside him…! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!! *maximum effort punching*
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Jyushi: I-I can’t move another inch…
Hitoya: Ugh… I can’t even take the cap off my water bottle…
Kuukou: *sighs* It’s pretty pathetic to be that exhausted just from cooking.
Hitoya: You…!!!
Jyushi: But, I think it would be really nice if our training efforts could be felt by those eating our curry…!
Hitoya: …Well, I don’t think I’d say it like that, but I agree with the sentiment.
*the trees rustle and the birds chirp and there is peace*
Kuukou: The fuck are y’all talking about? There’s no point to this if the people who eating aren’t going through training too.
Jyushi: Eh?
Kuukou: Training can only be felt when you grow from the trials you’ve experienced yourself. Hopping off from other people’s efforts won’t mean shit.
Jyushi: B-but I mean, we’ll still be serving the curry to others once it’s finished cooking, right?
Kuukou: Yup. Which is why I’ve got…!
Hitoya: UWAH!! MY EYES!! IT’S IN MY EYES!!
Jyushi: That powder…!!
Hitoya: It’s red chili pepper!! Jyushi, run!! Move upwind so it doesn’t blow and stick to your mucous membrane!!
Jyushi: Eeek!!! *runs away sobbing*
Kuukou: HYAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Hitoya: Kuukou, you bastard, what are you doing? Are you trying to ruin everything we worked on??
Kuukou: I’m not ruining a damn thing! This curry will be spicy so I can provide a remote kind of training!
Hitoya: Stop fucking around!! There’s gotta be a limit!!
Jyushi: *runs back over* I think there’s more chili pepper powder than ingredients now…!!
Kuukou: Then it’s just right! Now try it.
Jyushi: NO!! I will not be eating!! I absolutely refuse!! Don’t even try me!!
Kuukou: Hey stupid, watch it, that’s dangerous!! Stop fighting me and just—Ahh??
Jyushi: T-The inside of the pot is pitch black……!!
Hitoya: Obviously. Chili peppers burn easily. Haah… Let’s just remake the curry.
Jyushi: But doesn’t that mean we’ll have to mince more meat??
Kuukou: Whatever, I was thinking our “Intensely Spicy Curry Training” was made too halfheartedly anyway!! Time to give it all I got and win this championship!!
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Carrot and Habanero Tamales (Vegan)
Makes 8
DOUGH
1 cup masa harina (about 5 oz.; preferably Bob’s Red Mill or Masienda)
1 tsp. Diamond Crystal or ½ tsp. Morton kosher salt
¼ tsp. baking powder
2½ cups vegetable stock or low-sodium vegetable broth
2 Tbsp. grapeseed or vegetable oil
CARROT FILLING
4 medium carrots (about 1 lb.), preferably rainbow, scrubbed, sliced ¼" thick on a diagonal
1 habanero chile, halved
3 garlic cloves
1 Tbsp. grapeseed or vegetable oil
Kosher salt
ASSEMBLY
8 dried corn husks, soaked in hot water 5 minutes, or eight 10x5" pieces parchment paper
1 carrot, preferably rainbow, peeled
½ cup Pumpkin Hot Sauce
4 cups mizuna or arugula
Flaky sea salt
Preparation
DOUGH
Step 1: Whisk masa harina, salt, and baking powder in a large bowl to combine. Whisk stock and oil in a medium bowl to combine, then gradually add to dry ingredients, mixing with your hands until thick and oozy (dough should be about the consistency of fresh ricotta)—you may not need all of the stock mixture. Cover dough tightly and let sit at room temperature until ready to use.
CARROT FILLING
Step 2: Place a rack in middle of oven; preheat to 450°. Spread out carrots, chile, and garlic in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle vegetables with oil; season with salt. Turn to coat, then roast until carrots are tender and starting to brown, about 10 minutes.
Step 3: Let vegetables sit until cool enough to handle, then transfer to a food processor and pulse to a coarse purée. Taste and season filling with more salt if needed. Transfer to a medium bowl.
ASSEMBLY
Step 4: Place a steamer basket inside a large pot and pour in water just until it reaches basket. Bring to a simmer.
Step 5: Working one at a time, lay a corn husk vertically on your work surface. Place a golf-ball-size amount of dough just above the center of the husk. Spoon about 1 Tbsp. filling on top and enclose in dough. Fold sides of corn husk up and over dough, then fold the flap closest to you upward to meet the top edge of the upper flap. Turn over so tamal stays closed. Repeat with remaining husks, dough, and filling.
Step 6: Arrange tamales in steamer, flap side down (it’s okay if you need to layer them). Reduce heat to medium, cover pot, and steam tamales 30 minutes.
Step 7: Meanwhile, fill a medium bowl with ice water. Using a vegetable peeler, shave carrot in long ribbons into bowl and let sit until ready to use.
Step 8: To serve, place 2 tamales on each plate and unwrap. Drizzle some Pumpkin Hot Sauce over and top with a big mound of mizuna and some carrot ribbons; sprinkle with sea salt.
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PLANT FACT: the first "leaves" on a seedling aren't true leaves. They're called cotyledons and they usually die off once the plant is more developed. Once there's more leaves beyond the first one or two cotyledons those are the first "true" leaves!
These pepper plants are at the cotyledon stage, you can see the baby leaves coming out though. There's more than one plant in the pot because sometimes seeds don't grow or what does grow comes out wrong.
Once they get their true leaves I'll pick the best plant and pinch the other one off so they don't compete for nutrients and growing space. I've had seedlings sprout fully white before, those ones get pinched off because they can't use light to make food and will die on their when the seed runs out of nutrients to help it.
These pepper plants are a week or two older than the first set, they have their true leaves. The extra pepper sprout has been pinched off and the final pepper that gets planted in the garden is chosen.
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