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Potting up Peppers

November 19th, 2014

I harvested all my peppers almost two months ago, they’ve been living in containers on the back porch. This time of year my back porch is like a walk in cooler, it keeps things fresh forever. We’ve been eating fresh peppers almost daily. The time had come for the rest of them to go into the freezer.
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So I chopped, and chopped, and chopped some more. I fried, and fried, and fired some more. Pretty soon all the peppers were prepped and ready to be saved for eating this winter.
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I ended up with a nice little stockpile of peppers to enjoy this winter. No doubt they’ll be enjoyed in omelets, on pizza, and in fajitas.

What are you preserving from the garden this week?

9 Comments to “Potting up Peppers”
  1. Joan Ray on November 19, 2014 at 8:49 am

    I’m not preserving anything from my garden this week (or really much at all this year!) but when I have a surplus of peppers I just cut them up and freeze them without cooking them first. They last quite nicely and I can throw them into whatever I am cooking. Red peppers are my absolute faves!

    Yours look delicious however! Yum.

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  2. Nebraska Dave on November 19, 2014 at 9:59 am

    Susy, sadly I didn’t preserve any thing this year. I have revised my plans for next year to prepare for the severe weather that I now know can happen as late as July. There will be a backup plan for the backup plan. Much has been learned this year about garden planning. It’s been a harsh year for my gardens but they will benefit from the things learned this year for next year’s planting.

    Have a great preserving the harvest day.

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  3. Sara on November 19, 2014 at 10:26 am

    I was going to say we’re way past preserving time here, but then I remembered all the tomatoes getting ripe in my basement–I’ve been making sauce about once a week and freezing any extras. I guess that counts a little bit.

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  4. Karla on November 19, 2014 at 7:15 pm

    The day before it snowed, I cut a bunch of parsley before covering the rest of the parsley plants with shredded leaves. The stalks went into a chicken stock, and the leaves were chopped fine in a food processor with just enough olive oil to keep the blades going and then frozen in small canning jars.

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  5. sarah on November 19, 2014 at 10:26 pm

    Do you just sautee & freeze? The skins don’t bother you?

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    • Susy on November 20, 2014 at 8:50 am

      The skins don’t bother me, I only remove skins if I’m making canned roasted red peppers.

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  6. Kris Engebretsen on November 20, 2014 at 4:15 am

    How do you prepare the peppers for freezing? What are you sauteing them in? Do you have to cook them first? Thanks so much.

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    • Susy on November 20, 2014 at 8:49 am

      I just cut them and lightly sauté them in lard (you can use olive oil or whatever form of fat you prefer). Then I freeze them. You should lightly cook them before freezing.

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  7. Jennie on November 21, 2014 at 3:11 pm

    Did you make any pickled peppers? I love those!

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