Posted on 07/05/2019 3:24:11 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Paprika peppers.
Soon to become paprika powder.
Beautiful! :)
These and four others are in the dehydrator this morning.
Nice, do you use a dehydrator. Are the peppers hot? We love smoked sweet paprika.
Hailstorms came through Denver this past week, and shredded everything, stripped twigs and leaves from trees, and gave us enough hail that it froze some tender seedlings. Containers on the balcony that couldnt be moved didn’t get covered in time got blasted. Some hailstones were the size of quarters. :o((
I’d like to find a simple (free) hosting page for some images. what do you use?
I’d like to find a simple (free) hosting page for some images. what do you use?
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Try imgur.com
A key plus with regard to posting images on FR is that you can choose to keep them private, unseen by the general imgur crowd of the progressive ilk who tend to cause problems. That still allows you to post direct image links on FR which all can see.
You can also create albums...with labels etc.
I’ve used the private setting for several and years now and have had no harassment problems.
...and many have views of 4k and more
Yes, a dehydrator with five plastic screens where hot air is allowed to circulate.
One of these layers take a bit over a full day to dry.
Then, into the electric coffee bean grinder to pulverize into powder.
Wal Mart sells glass salt and pepper shakers for $2. I label the products and year it was grown and processed.
I should add, home-made paprika is stronger and sweeter than the tin canned “Hungarian” variety.
Powder we made three years ago, stored in a sealed jar is still potent.
'Still Life with Sweet Corn and Afternoon Sun'
We live in the part of Wisconsin that is called, 'The Driftless Area' which means that the Glaciers missed us and left our land VERY hilly. We need to plant crops in 'contour strips' to help stop erosion. It's really quite lovely.
Sometimes I sit on my front porch and squint a little and pretend that I manage a HUGE Vineyard in Tuscany, with row upon row of fabulous grapes as far as the eye can see. But then I sober up and remember that we're only growing soybeans, LOL!
Hail is the WORST! I’m so sorry for your loss! :(
I always leave a few sunflowers to grow around the feeder, too! Free food! :)
I keep a FB account so I can steal bandwidth from that putz, Zuckerberg! ;)
Imgur or Flickr are both used by folks here:
I use Flickr but had to pay for my account recently because I exceeded their limit.I really enjoy the garden photos y’all post from across the Fruited Plain .We typically have costal overcast skies here on the shores of Humboldt Bay deep in Redwood country as we do this morning...
I believe it. Someone gave us a packet of paprika when they went to Hungary. It was pretty bad. We buy the smoked sweet in one pound bags online. It is wonderful. We use a lot when we make capicola. The whole 6-7 pound pork neck gets rolled in it.
I use postimage.org and like it. Free and easy and no ads.
postimage.org
Thanks, I’ll give it a try...can’t have too many internet caches.
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