[CH] Home from the Fields 2002
Alex Silbajoris (asilbajo@hotmail.com)
Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:25:00 +0000
Well, we made it home safely from the Fields, glad to have met up with so
many people again. I didn't bring back any large quantity of peppers, but I
did get a few nice pods to pass around as gifts (such as clusters of the
pointsetta pepper).
As usual, everyone was passing around some kind of goodies or showing off a
cooking technique. I had fun frying some spicy pork at one of the main
tables. I was running a small skillet quite hot, and the marinade had a lof
of fresh garlic in it, plus some orange hab sauce I made from a Fields
harvest back in the 1900s. The wind blew the cooking exhaust from my
corner, across the canopy area, where seasoned chile heads were coughing and
sputtering and clearing out. I thought, if I can clear out a hotluck in a
hab field, I'm doing OK.
I got to test my roaster basket on the embers of the large fire, and it
worked. I didn't have enough room in the car to pack my own grill. I ran
out my propane canninster completely and had to switch to the gasoline
stove, which Chad also used with his stovetop smoker.
I saw some of the storm damage on the north side of Martinsville, it was
like the scene in Miami after Andrew - front-end loaders filling open dump
trucks from piles of branches in the streets. A big fluff of yellow
fiberglass insultaion turned up in the orchard.
I have about 120 pictures of the event, and now I need to figure out which
ones I want to post on my chile images page. I'll also post some in the
Photos area of chileheads@yahoogroups. I walked the rows early in the
event, before most of the picking, taking photos of the various tpyes of
plants. I used my digital camera and a little knee-high tripod, trying to
get profile shots of the plants.
Thanks again to everyone who took part in the event and thanks to Jim in
particular, even if he never did arrange to get golf carts for everyone.
- A
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