The miracle of chillis.

[frax]

Last night I made Linguine with crab, lime and coriander sauce. It was great and it had some chilli in it. I was pretty careful, I did a strict (if small) taste test first to avoid nearly chocking cardinalsin as I did last time. Also I washed my hands several times afterwards and remembered not to touch my eyes all night. Hurray

Comments

[elle_]

I suppose the big question is - was the linguine worth the pain?

(If so... can I please have some? :P)

[cardinalsin]

It was worth it for me!

[ar_gemlad]

Wear gloves ;)

Whenever I chop garlic, if I have a shower two days later my hands smell again. It was a pain when I used to work at a takeaway which involved chopping onions and garlic!

[frax]

We have a special little metal bar that neutralises odours for that but I have to say we eat so much garlic in our house I can't really smell it anymore.

[jezzidue]

The secret is to wash your hands with milk (or cooking oil) ... and then soap and water.

[frax]

Oh that sounds good, I hadn't heard that before.

[sea_of_flame]

Chilli oil being oil soluble, see...

Although that being the case, I'd imagine that it needs to be full fat milk, rather than skimmed...

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Oh, and on another note - chilli plant flowers apparently (mine are only just coming into flower, soi I haven't had a chance to check this personally) need to be insect-pollinated to actually produce chillies, so if they're indoors and away from flying critters, you may need to grab a model-painting brush & do it by hand.

If you put them outside, beware of slugs/snails/caterpillars (all of which try to eat the leaves) - and I have a sneaking suspicion pigeons are also cuplable, since one keeps flying off from near the plants whenever I go to the back door, and several of the would-be flowers keep getting eaten when still in bud...

[frax]

Slugs etc aren't too much of an issue on a first floor fire escape thank goodness. I remember spending a year battling against them when we had an allotment - I think we drew.

[secondhand_rick]

Linguine with crab, lime and coriander sauce. It was great and it had some chilli in it.

Oh baby, that sounds good!

Mmmmm.

[frax]

It was good actually - really good.

[secondhand_rick]

If you ever make a bucket of the aforementioned and need help scoffing it, feel free to call on me to bravely rally round and help out.

[jezzidue]

Do you remember Venta's - GUMBO? .... "hurghgghgh Gumbo"