Picked Pepper Jars. Or, What My Mom Gave Me This Last Trip Home...

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Summary: As long as I remember, my mom has been pickling peppers. About the only sign of such of a thing up here that I see are those designed only for decoration in restaurants, and those little jars of tabasco peppers in vinegar. I brought back an especially interesting jar this time...

BLOT: (11 Jul 2011 - 11:01:31 AM)

Picked Pepper Jars. Or, What My Mom Gave Me This Last Trip Home...

Jamming out to the Red Dead Revolver soundtrack, which is less a soundtrack specific to a game and more a collection of Spaghetti Western tracks from all over. I'm not even sure if there is something like an official one, somewhere, in the vaults or if this motley collection compiled by fans is all there is, but it is kind of interesting. Lots of random funka-cowboy music and stressed out voice warbles. If that either draws a blank for you, or sounds awesome, then check out the Red Dead Revolver opening credit reel, with a Luis Bacalov bit from Lo Chiamavano King, because it has slices of both.

Today I get to the put the game aside and focus on two things: reading for class tonight (another four hour class, this one on Academic Librarians and tenure) and how to get my back-log of journal posts out. I have something like an idea. A queue system that will allow me to filter old out with new in a way that makes the old not seem like months old and forgotten. But, well, we'll have to see.

What I'll leave you with right now is this photo of a pickled pepper jar my mom sent up with me. She has long been a pepper pickler (that sound dirty to you? Like some sort of weird medieval insult that could be given a cheap matinee performance?) but has tended to use various chili peppers and fairly straight vinegar solution. Now, if you have seen pickled/vinegar'd peppers, you probably have seen one of two varieties: the fancy kind that some stores and restaurants like to display; and the little half cup jars that have the slightly green ones in, the tabasco peppers. My mom pickles them by the quart. And this case, which I have to admit might not be a Barbara Bolden original (as in, someone might have given these to her), is what I was handed when I asked for a jar. There are some jalapenos, some onions, some banana peppers, and a couple of other varieties (some red bell and red chili for instance). The overall flavor is a bit hard to peg down. Kind of a sweet, hot, onion-y jalapeno. Goes real good with greens.

And yes, it is a quart. She had about 10 more where that came from. Each one slightly unique in its consistency.

OTHER BLOTS THIS MONTH: July 2011


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