Chili Peppers

I love hot peppers. I love them roasted put into salsas, on top of burgers, on nachos, just about anyway you can eat a pepper I love them. When we are in the states people ask us what do you miss in-regards to food. My response seems funny to most. I miss Salsa and hot foods.

Here in Honduras we do not get to enjoy a lot of hot foods (Spicy). Most Hondurans do not like the really spicy foods. Even though they have bottles of hot sauce on the table ready for every meal.

One day last fall when I was in the market I found a bag of habenaro's and thought I struck gold. The ladies in the market thought it was funny, they made a face indicating the peppers were horid and would set you on fire. True it may be tough to handle if your not use to eating and preparing them. I brought the habenaro's back to the farm with a couple different varities of tomatoes and made my own salsa. The ladies in the kitchen thought I had lost my mind and when Suyapa tried some of the habenaro salsa, she looked like she was going to cry. Lets just say it was a little on the hot side. When we would eat the salsa they would just watch us and laugh and waited for something to happen.

Today I am trying something new. I planted two seed packets. One is a mix of cayeene, hungarian wax, serrano, habenaro, hot cherry and other hot chili types. The other is a packet of hungarian hot wax peppers. Several years ago I planted some Jalapeno's in Fayetteville and they grew ok. But this is a first for me to try to do here in Honduras. So here I begin a blog on my chili pepper growing adventure. I pray it is a success and can not wait to be writting updates on how the peppers are growing. And ultimately making my own salsa out of my own home grown chilis.