Capsicum Whatium Now?

Like a lot of things in life,you start off with half a casual interest in something, you scratch the surface just that little bit more and all of a sudden people are saying weird words to you like Capsicum annuum, Capsicum chinense, and Capsicum pubescens.

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Social Media and Where to Find The Chilli Diaries

As part of the update I’ve taken on some new Social Media channels, and dropped one. You can no longer find me on Twitter, or X, or whatever it is these days. It’s not that I overtly disagree with Elon Musks “Free speech for everyone” policy, or anything like that – What I do disagree […]

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The Chilli Diaries X

OK Then. It’s been a while, welcome back – To you, and me. You may, or may not be able to tell but we’ve had a refurb here – After looking the way it looked for 10 years I’ve finally made some changes to the site. All for the best, I hope…

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Site Update

It’s been a while. I know it has. It isn’t without reason but I know I’ve been quiet. The main reason I’ve been so quiet is that for the past six months or so I’ve been looking to buy a new house, which I’ve been finding surprisingly difficult. It’s pretty much dominated most of my […]

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Chilli-Con-Carne Recipe – “Ole Red”

This Chilli Con Carne Recipe I’ve named, Ole Red. Why? Well it’s because I wanted it to reflect as close an approximation to the old Chill Recipes that came from Texas back when the whole Chilli thing began, it was known as a “Bowl of Red” back then.

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Review: Crazyhot The Film

Crazyhot is a documentary that sees Eric Raine cross continents speaking to  people who’ve embraced the way of the Chillihead, those that enjoy both giving and taking that extra punch with their food.

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Review: Meat Lust – Fiery Buffalo Sauce

I found the Meat Lust Fiery Buffalo sauce on a recent trip to ALDI. There was a few different flavours to choose from but I’ve been half looking for a decent Buffalo sauce to add to my collection for a little while now. A quick instore Google search told me that Meat Lust was kind […]

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Chilli-Con-Carne Recipe – Chilli V Bean

And so comes a time in every mans life when they decide they eat too much red meat and therefore must make some effort to change. Not that they want to do, really. Chilli V is not only my first vegetation Chilli Con Carne, it’s a 5 Bean Chilli. It’s also the 5th recipe I’ve […]

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Bottom Feeding (Watering / Chugging) your Plants

“Bottom Feeding your Plants” – Sounds kind of odd, right? Well, I always think it does at least, it’s also known as “Bottom Watering” and “Butt chugging”, which both sound equally as odd but I have less trouble with “feeding”. So, what is it? Well. You know when you water your plants and you tradtionally […]

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