[CH] Vitamin C
green56 (green56@PioneerPlanet.infi.net)
Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:23:18 -0600
So. Bell peppers have tons o'vitamin C? More'un oranges., even?
I HATE orange juice - and not overly fond o'oranges - for drinking/plain
eating purposes. YUCK. But love to cook with both. Nope. Don't do
grapefruit either.
(-------------> Covering eyes with hands... La-la-la-la-la-la-la! I
can't read you!)
If dried peppers are third for amount of Vitamin C one can get, it seems
to this pequin-sized brain simple math dictates I gotta eat 3X more
chipotles in order to get the same amount of Vitamin C I'd get if I
gagged down one Bell.
Izz tripling my intake o'chipotles like supposed to be a hardship or
sumpin'?????? I don't *think* so!!! :>
Also, I think it was Virginia, that asked what a Gyspy is...
Father Jim could prolly xplain better as he grows them, but I can give
you my warped xplination...
They're green peppers - chiles, but deserving o'that title! - and look
kind'a like a cow's horn, but don't curve as much as a horn - if THAT
makes any sense! But, that's what they remind me of. They're bigger
around than Annahiems (sp?), and usually shorter. The bottom - tip -
has two to three gently rounded lobes.
The heat level is just barely warm, if that. A hint of heat... A
suggestion of it. And very mildly sweet. They're a lighter green than
a Bell; not dark green, but that light yellowish-grass green. You can
get them going yellow, yellow, and orangish-red, and the flavor gets
better as they mature, but they don't ever get hot, just more
flavorful. And there is no, ***no*** bitterness whatsoever.
For those that HATE Bells, they are a godsend! They taste like what a
Bell *should* taste like. I discovered them last summer at the Farmer's
Market here when deliberately looking for a Bell sub and even waxed
euphorically here about my discovery. They are great stuffed, sauted,
raw, charred, on burgers, in salads - you name it!
I *think* they're very similar to Cubanelles...
And I'm trying to get my "green's Stuffed Gypsy Peppers" off diskette
but things aren't going well. But I haven't forgotten the request!
green (-------------->RDH)