we have assign in Italian that reads, "Eat and be quiet"

if anyone has an ipad and wants to know how to copy and paste here's what you do

If you are trying to copy try holding you finger down on a word and it should give you a magnifying glass and will highlight the word (if this doesn't happen take your finger off the screen it should give you w black bubble that gives you the option to select the word/select all. To select all words, and it will highlight). Once selected it should give you the option to Cut,Copy, and Paste. Select Copy.

To paste hold your finger down in the desired writing space once the blinking line shows (make sure it allows you to type before you do this) and the magnifying lens should show up. Take your finger off and a black bubble should appear with an option to Select, Select All, or Paste. Select Paste.

Christmas Menu
This will not be a usual Debbie menu as everyone complains that there is way too
much food so we are focusing more on appetizers and less on the main meat entre.

Appetizers
Shrimp Cocktail
Cheese Tray
Italian cold cut tray
Deviled eggs
Corn beef casserole
Piggies in the blanket
Mozzarella on toasted bread with roasted peppers, olive oil and basil
Fried shrimp

Dinner
Ravoli
Meatballs, sausage and braciole
Lasagna (small tray) (maybe)
Fried chicken cutlets

Desserts
Butter cookies
Chocolate chip cookies
Rainbow cookies
Pizzelle
Pignoli cookies
Fig cookies
Pinulata (sp) with honey

We will either have 8 or 14 people all family member

Merry Christmas
We had a quiet Christmas dinner yesterday but it brought back memories of how excited our boys used to get when "the day" finally arrived and it was no different with Ava.




First she showed us where "Cherry", the Christmas Elf was hiding and after dinner she went outside with her mom and dad to put reindeer food on the ground so the reindeer could eat. She said that they could smell the food from over 100 miles away




I think Chris is going outside early this morning to maker it look like the reindeer ate the food.




Ava has her own little Christmas tree set up next to the big one in the living room and yesterday she asked me if Santa would leave any "small" gifts under her tree. I told her I am sure he would. When I asked her if she was going to lever cookies for Santa she said that he would have to come in through the front door because they didn't have a chimney. Children are priceless.




Waiting to hear her open up the door to tell us that Santa did leave her presents.




You all have a great Christmas day.

I added some of Tom's powder to my rice balls

Franklin, looks like a great spread. Nothing like hot rice balls to finish up the year! I hour everyone has a spicy holiday season and new year. I'm already starting more pepper seeds for next season. Tom

Tom - I'm already thinking of the hot powders I will be buying from you. How long will they stay fresh in a jar with a lid?? I plan on getting all kinds of powders from you. From hot to mild and and for all the different tastes.

I'm already trying to make room in the spice rack under the watchful eye of my wife. 👧

The mildest I have is the heat of a habanero, and then they go up from there. Fresh, or still good is two different things. After about 3 to 6 months I notice an obvious degrade in freshness, but most don't have a real big change in taste even after a year. The yellows will actually get off color after a few months, even though the taste may be fine, but the reds keep their color well and seem to hold up better. I'm using regular ghost powder that is 1 1/2 years old and for my purposes, it is fine. When I can, I keep powder made from August picked peppers because it is the hottest, so I'll normally keep that as my own stash for an entire year.
If you really want fresh powder, you keep the dried peppers in a proper storage container and grind them up as needed. It does make an obvious difference if you are picky cook kind of person that always uses fresh herbs when they cook and that kind of thing. I'm not all that picky.

Does it make a difference if you store the powder in the freezer?

Tom - Still good is good enough for me.
Thanks

Have you added the powders to your web site yet??

I see you haven't yet.

No, if I do, the page will state that I can't send it out by mail order because of the cottage industry laws in Florida. As it is, I sell out of most everything I produce on the local level, which I either deliver, or is picked up at the nursery.

Weedwhacker said:Does it make a difference if you store the powder in the freezer?

As long as you store it so you don't get freezer burn it will be almost perfect. Keeping the powder in a mason jar and sucking the air out of it, which creates a vacuum, it will also stay close to perfect.

But I can still buy it from you right

on a happy note me and deb are going to be grand parents again. Danielle is due august 15th

Congrats, Franklin! It gives the rest of us hope for the continuation of our world!

Thanks.

where is everyone?? no new hot peppers??

I've started thinking that I might be able to convert empty eye-drops bottles into tiny hot pepper shakers.

But at home I just use my 1/64th tsp measuring spoon, and dilute the hottest peppers down to the point where 1/28th tsp is not excessive.

hello rick - anything new going on with hot peppers. haven't heard from tom. is he still getting world record peppers.??

I will be ordering a bunch of hos hot powders soon

I haven't heard any news lately either.

At the rate I;'m consuming it, I'll be ready for more hot pepper powder in approximately 2099.

Or maybe they have a half-life, like radioactive isotopes.