Jade's Recipe Exchange.

Last night's grub: Garlic-ginger chicken lo mein. Dessert: Red, white, and blue angel food cake with berries and orange-flavored icing.

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Dutch Uncle said:
My wife isn't a fan either. I have to either have them on the side or separate those with from those without on the grill.
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I like jalapeno taste but not the heat. That being said I do put them in things like chili or jalapeno corn bread, but sparingly. He has a collection of various hot sauces I got him that he can anoint his food with if he wants. Heh, one time he bought a little bag of ghost pepper potato chips. He ate one. No more ghost peppers. The parrots, on the other hand, LOVED them. They also love to eat raw hot peppers from the garden. Apparently to them it's delightful rather than painful. Isn't that weird?
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
I like jalapeno taste but not the heat. That being said I do put them in things like chili or jalapeno corn bread, but sparingly. He has a collection of various hot sauces I got him that he can anoint his food with if he wants. Heh, one time he bought a little bag of ghost pepper potato chips. He ate one. No more ghost peppers. The parrots, on the other hand, LOVED them. They also love to eat raw hot peppers from the garden. Apparently to them it's delightful rather than painful. Isn't that weird?
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LOL on ghost pepper chips. They might taste better crunched up and used to encrust meat for grilling. :)

It is weird, and a point of curiosity, to observe the likes and dislikes of other animals be it their taste choices or behavior. Rather than birds, my daily observations are of dogs and cats. Although I've had dogs most of my life, it wasn't until adulthood that I came to live with cats. Both can have wildly different personalities. My wife just acquired a barn kitten, a tabbie, about six weeks old. Before bringing it home, she asked if our present cat, Gypsy, who has a habit of hunting and bringing in her kills under the bed, would teach the kitten how to hunt. My response was "Most likely!" LOL

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ThatOwlWoman said:
I like jalapeno taste but not the heat. That being said I do put them in things like chili or jalapeno corn bread, but sparingly. He has a collection of various hot sauces I got him that he can anoint his food with if he wants. Heh, one time he bought a little bag of ghost pepper potato chips. He ate one. No more ghost peppers. The parrots, on the other hand, LOVED them. They also love to eat raw hot peppers from the garden. Apparently to them it's delightful rather than painful. Isn't that weird?
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That’s incredible about your parrots!
 
Dutch Uncle said:
LOL on ghost pepper chips. They might taste better crunched up and used to encrust meat for grilling. :)

It is weird, and a point of curiosity, to observe the likes and dislikes of other animals be it their taste choices or behavior. Rather than birds, my daily observations are of dogs and cats. Although I've had dogs most of my life, it wasn't until adulthood that I came to live with cats. Both can have wildly different personalities. My wife just acquired a barn kitten, a tabbie, about six weeks old. Before bringing it home, she asked if our present cat, Gypsy, who has a habit of hunting and bringing in her kills under the bed, would teach the kitten how to hunt. My response was "Most likely!" LOL
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Cats pretty much come with that software already installed, but mamas do teach their kittens how to hunt. Our cats were singletons but they knew. Our family's cat used to be allowed outdoors until one of the neighbors told me he saw her toying with a copperhead. Later my daughters got a cat who was declawed so he was never allowed outside. But he stalked the cockatiel and the Quaker anyways. He had to be kept in their bedrooms when the birds were out. We haven't had a cat since for obvious reasons, nor a dog for the same reason. One day my middle daughter brought her little terrier mutt over. Missy promptly went after Jojo (cockatiel) and almost got her except for Mr. Owl's quick reflexes. A few years later, after they had moved to Vermont, Missy and her mutt son got out and killed all of the neighbor's backyard chickens. :(
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Cats pretty much come with that software already installed, but mamas do teach their kittens how to hunt. Our cats were singletons but they knew. Our family's cat used to be allowed outdoors until one of the neighbors told me he saw her toying with a copperhead. Later my daughters got a cat who was declawed so he was never allowed outside. But he stalked the cockatiel and the Quaker anyways. He had to be kept in their bedrooms when the birds were out. We haven't had a cat since for obvious reasons, nor a dog for the same reason. One day my middle daughter brought her little terrier mutt over. Missy promptly went after Jojo (cockatiel) and almost got her except for Mr. Owl's quick reflexes. A few years later, after they had moved to Vermont, Missy and her mutt son got out and killed all of the neighbor's backyard chickens. :(
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Ouch! My wife and I watched her son's dogs one time and they relished decapitating our hens. Two Shih Tzus and they worked as team taking the hens down one-by-one until I stopped them.

The Shih Tzu we inherited from my SIL after she died is playful. When the kitten clawed at him he started to go after her. My wife put a quick stop to that so now we're keeping them separated until the kitten is big enough to fight him off or outrun him.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
I like jalapeno taste but not the heat. That being said I do put them in things like chili or jalapeno corn bread, but sparingly. He has a collection of various hot sauces I got him that he can anoint his food with if he wants. Heh, one time he bought a little bag of ghost pepper potato chips. He ate one. No more ghost peppers. The parrots, on the other hand, LOVED them. They also love to eat raw hot peppers from the garden. Apparently to them it's delightful rather than painful. Isn't that weird?
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Peppers evolved to bother the mammalian line for protection. Bears won't go near the stuff on smell alone. They did a Mythbusters episode several years back where they used chili powder as a deterrent. The bear liked it so little that he said, 'Screw the food sitting in the van behind it,' and went outside the barrier they had set up.
 
Jade Dragon said:
Peppers evolved to bother the mammalian line for protection. Bears won't go near the stuff on smell alone. They did a Mythbusters episode several years back where they used chili powder as a deterrent. The bear liked it so little that he said, 'Screw the food sitting in the van behind it,' and went outside the barrier they had set up.
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Yeah, bear spray is just a super-charged pepper spray. I sure miss that show. They were awesome. Did you hear that Grant passed away from a brain aneurysm a few years ago?
 
Jade Dragon said:
Peppers evolved to bother the mammalian line for protection. Bears won't go near the stuff on smell alone. They did a Mythbusters episode several years back where they used chili powder as a deterrent. The bear liked it so little that he said, 'Screw the food sitting in the van behind it,' and went outside the barrier they had set up.
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Did they have to use a lot of it or just sprinkle a little around the area of food?
 
After a discussion on the Nice Thread, I've been experimenting with nuking eggs; both like a fried egg and scrambled with a bit of milk, ham, jalapeños and onion.

My recipe takes only a few minutes:
1. chop up and nuke jalapeños and onions for 1 minute on high.
2. Mix in two eggs with a little bit of milk. I've tried both 1 minute on high and 2 minutes at 50%. I like the latter best.
3. The eggs will cook from the outside in so stir them up, mix in chopped ham and nuke again.
4. Pull out of microwave, mix up and let sit for a minute before eating.

Clean up is easy since the bowl for cooking and eating is the same. A knife and fork for utensils plus a small cutting board or plate.
 
Jade Dragon said:
I don't remember; it's been over 8 years since I've seen much Mythbusters. I just know that Bears can't stand the stuff because their sense of smell is stronger than a dog's.
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That's interesting since I've read a dog's sense of smell is 200 times that of a human.
 
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