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Preserving chillies?
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You can just dry them if you only use in cookingEight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens0
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I thread mine on a string (cotton) and then hang them across my kitchen window till dry. Then I move them out of the window and hang them off a hook in the ceiling
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I thread mine onto some fine wire, dry them, and they keep for ages.
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On a similar note can you freeze lemongrass? Never sure with this.
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Or wash, dry, then put into a small jar with some oil & keep in a cupboard0
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On a similar note can you freeze lemongrass? Never sure with this.
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I've frozen it and I've never had a problem with it. It sometimes goes a bit softer but as I'm cooking with it it doesn't bother me. I don't use it that often and if I leave it in the fridge it shrivels to nothing so if I stick it in the freezer then I have some when I need it and I'm not wasting money 0 -
I make chilli vodka!0
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or there is a recipe in this months delicious for chili and lime ice-cream - its looks delicious!0
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I pickle them.
Boil up white wine vinegar, sugar, some coriander seed and a few bay leaves. Slice the chillis vertically after rolling them between your hands to lossen the seeds. Deseed with a spoon and rinse with boiling water to clear the last of the seeds out. Then pack them into a sterile jar and pour the vinegar over. Leave them about two weeks before either using them in recipes as you would normal chillis or eating them with a few beers.Life in this world is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What can we know of reality? For all we can see of the true nature of existence is, shall we say, no more than bewildering and amusing shadows cast upon the inner wall of the cave by the unseen blinding light of absolute truth, from which we may or may not deduce some glimmer of veracity, and we as troglodyte seekers of wisdom can only lift our voices to the unseen and say humbly "Go on, do deformed rabbit again.....it's my favourite". © Terry Pratchett in "Small Gods"
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thanks for all the suggestions! I finally got round to picking them yesterday - 75(!!!!) and still loads of green ones (3 plants). I have frozen half and put the other half in oil. I will try out some of the other suggestions when I pick my next batch - can see I won't have to buy any chillis at all in the next year or so .....0
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