Our Family Farm share this week:
Six ears of corn, a bunch of broccoli, two cucumbers (both just really big), two patty pan squash, a quart of red skin potatoes, three yellow onions, a zucchini, a bunch of peppers, a little melon, and a dozen eggs. Farmer John wouldn’t tell me which kind of melon it was, telling me he didn’t want me to give away all of his secrets. He did give me two jalapenos so I could test out a method of determining jalapeno hotness. I read on a blog somewhere that when selecting jalapenos, take note of the striations (or lack of) on the pepper. If there are stretch marks, the pepper will be hotter. I don’t really know if this is true, so I have one of each – a smooth and shiny pepper and a pepper with little marks on it.
The frog wants you to notice the jalapeno on the right is the one with the marks – according to my sources, that will be the hotter pepper. I’ll let you know what I find.
