I Cayenne't Live Without Hot Peppers

Yesterday was the 4th of July, and naturally I used the celebratory American holiday as an excuse to whip up some fattening food.

I baked cookies. I made pan-fried pork chops and garlic mashed potatoes. But my favourite of the day was the sour cream & salsa dip.

Sour cream by itself is fantastic. Ambrosia. It should be it's own food group. In fact, I think I'll write a letter to the President about that after I'm finished with this.

Adding salsa to the sour cream? You're getting into 'my panties have spontaneously caught on fire' territory. Someone call the fire department!

And tell them to bring extra hoses.

What's the secret ingredient behind my dip of champions?



Homegrown freakin' cayenne peppers.

Mince up two or three of these babies, and stir 'em in. The seeds are optional (if you're a pussy).

Get some tortilla chips and go to town on it.

One bite and your underwear will not only be incinerated, but music will fill the air....like the sound of two angels making sweet, sweet love in a meadow full of rainbows and unicorns.

Wait, you're asking what the hell that sounds like?

You'll find out if you taste my dip.




I love spicy shit. Which is interesting, because before I hit my 20's, I couldn't stand any heat in my food.

Now? I can't get enough. It's one of the greatest feelings in the world to eat something that's so spicy that you're crying and your nose is running and you just want to lean over with your hands on your knees and hold your mouth open so that saliva is just streaming out of your mouth onto the ground. All at once.

For me it's like having a good hard laugh, or a good hard sneeze, or a good hard....well, I'll let Mr. Stewart fill in the end of that sentence.




I've done better growing my own cayennes this year than in any previous years. I usually grew them out in the fenced in back garden.

Every year, regardless of the fence, something would eat all the leaves off the top of the plants. Completely sheared them. I'd only get a couple of peppers out of it.

This year they're in a drywall bucket right outside my back porch. Whatever was eating them won't venture up this close to the house it seems. Muhaha!



What about you guys? Do you like-a da pepper?