Poblano ees no problemo

On impulse I bought a Poblano chile pepper plant a few months ago and stuck it in an open square of one of my front beds. I didn’t know anything about them but they looked interesting and any chile pepper harvest would force me to learn something new in the kitchen.

The plant adapted and grew well but wasn’t flowering at all; in the meantime the Napoleon sweet bell, Sheepnose pimentos and Jalapenos were providing steady pepper harvests. I didn’t worry about it much since I was certain it wasn’t a nitrogen overdose and I have read enough about some peppers requiring a long growing season. These are a native of Puebla state in Mexico (which everyone knows is below the Yucatan and deep in the tropics) so I figured this might need all the summer we get up here to produce.

So I used an old tomato cage to steady the big plant and basically forgot about it.

Fast forward a few weeks to a few evenings ago when a house wren got caught under the bird netting covering one of my Brandywine tomato plants. As I was lifting the netting I caught a nice chile pepper smell and found a couple of Poblanos had hatched right under my nose.

So now I need someone to tell me to how to dry these for powder or provide a recipe or two for fresh chiles.