Category Archives: Chilli Nuts

Last Year This Year

Here we are again in the middle of winter. If we can’t fuss over our precious plants at least we can sit around the fire swapping tales about them. Before I get on with this year’s  ......

Update . . This Year’s Crop

Hello everybody. I hope that your chillies are growing well. I thought that it was about time that I let you all know how mine are coming along. Bhut Jolokia. These are coming along nicely; I ju......

Harissa, Hot Moroccan Sauce

This wonderful sauce can be used as a marinade, an ingredient, or simply by itself; as a dip, a drizzling sauce or even scooped out of the jar out with your finger. This is my version. There are......

In All Its Beautiful Wanton Glory . . .

A sight that gets me reaching for a paintbrush!

Is That a Flower?

Natalie, I suggest that you look away now. I really don’t want to show off but I really can’t help myself. I do believe that my plants are approaching puberty. Look . . . . Is that ......

Roasted Red Pepper And Lime Chilli Sauce

Three times this week I’ve splashed this sauce over my food and it’s still only Tuesday! It really is time to share the recipe with you. Try it and let me know what you think. And if......

Open, Pour, Water, Grow

I really don’t know what all the professional horticulturists are playing about at. It’s that simple. This is grow-your-own food for the Pot-Noodle generation. Our local ‘disc......

The Next Generation

I have been fussing over my seedlings for some weeks now and the time has come to share this obsession. I started before Christmas but I now realise that was too early. I have a heated windowsil......

Bhut Jolokia Jam, From The Chilli Jam Man

Is this the hottest Jam on Earth? It’s made using the hottest chillies on Earth so you might expect it to be. But having tried The Chilli Jam Man’s jams before I knew it would be mo......

Naga Maltese Sausage

A few days ago I bought some fresh Naga chillies from an asian grocers, in Loughborough, opposite the Mazda garage. The shopkeeper lamented that they weren’t hot due to being ‘young&......

A Bhut Is Born

After only nine days in the propagator I have my first Bhut Jolokia seedling.  I placed the seed in some John Innes Seed Potting compost in a  mini coir pot and onto a heated windowsill propagat......

Large Doner Please!

It’s Saturday night, you’ve had enough beers and you’re feeling peckish. Up and down the country proper men (and women no doubt) will lurch into the nearest kebab house for tha......

Baby It’s Cold Outside

We’re just back from a ‘Delightful weekend in the country’  in the Peak District traipsing through snowy vistas like this one and mellowing by the real fires of the Rutland Ar......

Santa’s Been!

A little late I know, but there are a lot of children in the world that have to be done first I realize. But look what he left me . . . Many thanks to Julian, who clearly enjoys seeing me suffe......

Midwinter Warmer

In the old calendar Christmas was smack bang in the middle of winter and the celebrations were all about banishing the darkness, about bringing a bit of summer into the cold and dark nights. Wha......