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flying saucer forever
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2007-11-20 18:52 UTC
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| This time, I'm in that long line in front of Flying Saucer Pie Company. This is nuts, because it looks like it's about to rain really hard. |
not nearly as long as it will be tomorrow |
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I'm actually in front of the store - there are a couple of police officers helping out nearby. I had to park a couple blocks away. I'm going for a couple of pecan pies, a key lime, and a coconut cream. Maybe a cherry. |
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I got my pies (they were out of key lime - rats!), but here's a followup. A
woman walked the length of the line from back to front, handing out these
cards advertising services as a psychic. I didn't take one, but the person in
front of me did and was kind enough to let me grab a picture. When the lady
got to the front of the line, did she retire to her psychic headquarters and
prepare to attend to her new pie-fattened clientelle? No! She slipped into
line and pulled out a bunch of cash -- the whole thing was an elaborate
line-cutting ruse! Needless to say, she was quickly ratted out, and escorted
away (from the line, that is) by Houston's finest, facing the scornful grins
and jeers that you'd expect from a bunch of people waiting for that long. Nice.
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with psychic friends like these... |
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2006-09-26 22:34 UTC
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| I just braved the heat and moquitoes of... my front yard, to pick a batch of chile tepín peppers. Tepíns are, by many reports, the hottest peppers in the world b by weight, but I don't believe it. They are so small, though, that eating one isn't so bad. They are nearly spherical, and so picking them is easy: you just gently pinch and rotate them and they pop right off. There are still many unripe ones, and several had dried on the plant - the dry ones are harder to pick than the fresh ones. Some people say that dried peppers are hotter than fresh ones - I think that's misleading, because it's almost certainly true by weight - that is, an ounce of dried peppers is hotter than an ounce of fresh peppers, because it takes many more dried peppers to make up an ounce. But taking a fresh pepper and drying it out doesn't make it any hotter, and I suspect that it becomes a little less hot. |
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Those tepíns are hot, and maybe hotter than red habaneros (but maybe not), but because they are so small, they don't have the stopping power that a good habanero has. My red habanero plants are long dead, alas (this picture is from a happier time), so until I can grow new plants from the seeds I jealously guard, it's tepíns for me. |
| Another plant that's thriving in the yard is a kaffir lime (tree?bush?) - the leaves are an ingredient in many Thai dishes, and when you crush them, they smell and tast amazingly good in a citrus-y kind of way. I understand that the plant will eventually produce limes, so I'm looking out for those. I just had to prune the plant, because it was growing like crazy. Not sure how visible they are in the picture, but the plant has nasty inch-and-half long thorns that you have to watch out for. A lot of lime-bearing plants have these. |
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