Day 349 Ghost Chili Has Arrived I Must Be Near The End

Today was our office holiday party and I received the best present ever, a bag of dried Bhut Jolokia peppers, otherwise known as ghost peppers. If you have followed my blog at all, you will know that I have been on an endless search for the hottest pepper on earth and now I have found it! I have opened the bag, I have sniffed them, and finally, touched the tip of one to my tongue and it was like a bee sting! I have plans for these ghost peppers, tomorrow, I am going to make chili and I'm going to add the smallest sliver to a whole pot and see what happens, stay tuned....
In other news, I just finished adding up the very conservative plate of food I ate for lunch today, at the party and am happy to say that I have remained faithful to mindful eating. I ate breakfast this morning, so as not to go to the lunch, starving and vulnerable. I chose carefully, small portions of the things that I really wanted to eat and ate slowly and thankfully and I was satisfied. I even had a Nutella cookie for dessert and it was divine. I believe that it's like driving a car in a skid, no matter what, you must keep driving the car, it's the same with eating healthy, no matter what is happening, you must keep a firm grip and be mindful of the situation.

Day 172 Holy Flaming Ghost Peppers, It's Hot In Here

Today was a day for adventurous eating, for sure, first of all, let me just tell you about my find of the day. If anyone is the least bit familiar with my obsession for pepper heat and my ongoing search for anything made from Ghost peppers, the day has come! Now, please don't consider me naive, I am well aware that only the smallest bit of Ghost pepper could have been used for the salsa on the grocery store shelf, but there it was on the label! Ghost pepper salsa, "scary hot", it warned in frightening font. I almost could not wait to get home to try it, my mom looked at me with doubt and then poured us both a glass of milk for the experiment. I went first.....nothing, and then a whole lotta something, it was HOT!! though not hot enough to keep me from continuing the sweat inducing salsabration. My mother tried it and choked, what a pansy! After, about 1/3 of a cup with chips, my eyes felt like they were bulging, my neck was sweating, and my mouth was a buzzing furnace of molten venom, it was fabulous and I can't wait for round two! Once my face stopped ticking, I made a cake! Not just any cake, I made the first prototype of my county fair cake. I made a Caribbean Mango Spice Cake, and we ate the whole thing, there is nothing left, everyone in the family approves and agrees that it may be Blue ribbon quality. I would say that day two of staycation has been an astounding success!
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Day 109 Hunt For The Ghost Chili

Today, I continue my mission to find a Buht Jolokia AKA Ghost chili, for the garden. My mom asks me why I want this pepper and claims she will not allow it near the regular peppers, for fear of spreading the heat. I think she fears the spread of personality and pzazzle, myself. The articles I've found on this pepper, compare it to battery acid  or worse. I'm in. Apparently, you can only consume tiny pieces at a time and must remove the piece you are using to heat a recipe, a small piece will heat an entire meal. If I find this spicy little pepper baby, I will make the hottest salsa, ever consumed on the planet and I will throw a party in it's honor. I cannot wait. If I can get to the Jenks Herb fest early enough on Saturday, hopefully I can find someone who has not sold out, if not, I will search high and low, I will travel to India and I will score a ghost chili, as God is my witness. Last Saturday, while pepper hunting, I had an idea, I know that you cannot cross strawberries and peppers, but how good would that be? I proposed this out loud and a friend suggested mixing pepper oil and sugar and dipping the strawberries in it, Oh my, what a flipping mouth circus that would be! Now, where do I find pepper oil? Maybe I could make pepper oil, by infusing my favorite pepper in olive oil? Not sure if that's how you do it, but couldn't hurt to try!
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Day 106 Holy Ghost Chili Of A Funnel Cake

Wow, today was a labyrinth of fast food land mines and soda pop pit falls. My entire day was a corner to corner street fair of greasy carnival goodness and temptations a plenty. The Herb fest was about herbs and plants, yes, but it was also an excuse for vendors to trot out funnel cakes and blooming onions, left and right. I was good, I ducked my head into my chin and swam headlong into the fray of greasy aromas and sugared chins. I didn't even buy a water, first of all, the only options for bathrooms were porta-johns so I didn't want to drink anything for fear of germ exposure and second, the water was like 5.00! I gave myself a limit of spending money and came away with four cayenne pepper plants, a tiger pepper, a curry plant, one lavender plant, and two strawberry plants. I know this sounds like a light load, but next weekend is the second herb fest and I plan to find some additional peppers then. I searched and searched for a Ghost pepper, but the one vendor who had them, was sold out. I WANT A GHOST CHILI if I have to travel to Pakistan to get it, (she screamed, stomping her feet) Kind of like "I want an OompaLoompa now Daddy!" If I don't get one, I may just start to scream and never stop.
I've already planted my regular peppers, they are safely tucked into their dirt beds and my mom will find a place for the others tomorrow, also she found some sugar pie pumpkin seeds and will plant those as well. Everything else has it's place and now we wait for our little sprouts, can't wait!
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