From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!purdue!cak Newsgroups: net.cooks Title: Re: How do you cook a hot pepper? Article-I.D.: purdue.317 Posted: Sat Jul 31 12:16:36 1982 Received: Sun Aug 1 03:14:18 1982 References: pyuxcc.330 If they are as large as normal banana peppers, you can stuff them with a mixture of rice and ground beef, much as some people do with bell peppers. We always make stuffed peppers with banana peppers, and use about 2/3 mild and 1/3 hot. Serve with yogurt (plain, unflavored) if you want to preserve your taste buds. If they're too small to stuff, you can hang them up and dry them. Then use one instead of paprika, or whenever you want to spice a dish up. Use as a spice in Goulash comes to mind (I submitted a recipe to this effect some time ago). The other alternative is to fry them in oil and serve them as an appetizer or side dish/salad. This freezes very well. Chris Kent, Purdue CS