Boomerang Dave's Boomerang Journal

If you know me, you know I like chile peppers and foods made with them. One specialty we make at our house is hot pepper jelly and a few jams with hot peppers. A couple weeks ago we got some plums at a great price and made a red plum jam. We also got some nice yellow Shiro plums. The wheels were set in motion. We got out our standard plum jam recipe and said, why not make a hot version? Checking the freezer yielded some Cumari chiles picked at Meadow View Farms during Pepper Daze. These are a tiny but dangerous hot chile pepper. Barb took some and finely chopped them, adding them to the yellow plum base. It was great. We think it may be mild to those true chileheads, but plenty hot for us, and maybe over the top for those of the milder persuasion. We decided to call this on Sheer Madness. I am sure it will be fabulous on pork and chicken, especially as a glaze.

Saturday we were at a flea market and one veddor was selling some fresh peachs 10/$1. We bought 20 and headed home for another jam session. This time we went with a favorite of ours, peaches with Fatali chiles. Again it was the freezer to the rescue as we also picked Fatalis at Meadow View. We only used 1-1/2 chiles in this batch and we could really tell the heat going on. I think I know where the name "Fatali" come from. Again, this one will be a winner with pork and chicken. I guess it will be a real wake up call on your toast or bagel too!

Enough chile talk for today. Photo is my wild red Brazilian chiles, growing in their container.