Here is my life story you can spend the next 5 minutes scrolling through to get to the recipe: As a child I was traumatized by black jelly beans and that is somehow relevant to this recipe, which is the only reason you’re here anyway.
Triple Chocolate Death – Part 3: Baby Steps to Spicy Glory
Growing Up Out of the 20 starter pods, 12 of them had germination. I think a lot of this came down to not sufficiently covering the others and keeping the soil as damp as it needed to trigger germination of the rest. I ended up moving the 3 more aggressive ones to slightly larger containers […]
Honoring the Retirement of ChiliPlants.com
I had only just learned about this site 2 weeks before they officially retired. I wish I had heard of them sooner because of the huge variety of plants they offered. Luckily these 6 plants should serve me for a while (the peppers at least.) We’ll see how the tomatoes hold up. I ended up […]
Triple Chocolate Death – Part 2: Tea Time for the Reapers
I made a cup of tea for carolina reaper seeds and this is what I got out of it
Triple Chocolate Death – Part 1: Beginning of the End
But Why? So a friend of mine had recently acquired a scorpion pepper plant from Pinder’s Nursery. Having a successful harvest that was shared with friends in an evening of capsaicin glory, I found myself, in the words of Sean Evans, “Chasing the Dragon.” I was hooked on the combination of how flavorful, yet potent, […]