Caught my our cat, Jack, with an odd look on his kitty face.
Pick a caption and win, folks!
Cruel Wife got me a gift. My own Jolokia peppers! Habaneros don’t faze me all that much, Red Savinas do at roughly twice the Scoville units. They are roughly 250,000 and 500,000 units each. The kids don’t eat spicy food yet so my tolerance is down… who knows what will get me any more?
The Bhut Jolokia is 1,000,000 units. I have yet to try one because I’m trying to think of the best venue. I’m thinking a mango/pineapple salsa, myself. A habanero, which is naturally a fruity-flavored flesh pepper, goes well in that environment. I’m undecided on this one. It might be that it’d be good in a mole sauce… let me know if you have an idea for this one. The proper dish is critical!
Here’s Wide-Load… errrr… Jill… my kitty. Jack is CW’s more or less although he hops from family member to family member in a laid-back sort of way.
I cropped the picture wide so she’d look a bit slenderer than what those traitorous hips of hers give away.
Lest you think that “Wide Load” is unfair, compare brother and sister… the photo was captured in a hurry on-the-fly so it’s a bit fuzzy, sorry. It’s an illustration, not Ansel Adams in color.
Lemur King's Folly 
Wow, the Ghost Pepper itself! You are the Pepper Master but make sure CW has my email addy so she can tell me where to send the flowers to your burial plot when these thing fry you to a crispy critter.
Yay me!!
Yah, I’ll do that. Actually I think it’d be a great excuse for you to don the Road Warrior leather gear and come on up to Michigan and put them black roses on my plot yourself.
Play some AC/DC while you’re at it. Cranked.
Maybe “Have a Drink on Me” and “Hells Bells”? They’re sentimental favorites of mine.
Oh, yes… you need to pick a caption for the first photo.
And we can play the soundtrack of the movie “Maximum Overdrive” as accompaniment! Best of both worlds: AC/DC and whacked-out vehicles!
Wife says to make a jelly out of the peppers. She made a jalapeno jelly that’s fantastic. Tho the mole and salsa are good choices as well.
Oh, and the kittehs are really cute…
I saw a display of packs of Bhut Jolokia at my local grocery a couple of months ago, and I bought a pack and went home and made a salsa with it. The salsa turned out well enough, but I didn’t find it to be all that hot, and I used three reconstituted bhut jolokia peppers in about a cup’s worth of salsa, so it should have been flaming. Honestly, it was hotter than jalapenos, but not by too awful much. I don’t know if it was because it was part of a milder batch, or maybe they really weren’t bhut jolokias, but I was not impressed by the level of heat. The taste was pretty good though. I would recommend it more for salsas or things that have a smoky flavor rather than fruity.
A fresh Bhut Jolokia is supposed to be hot enough to put a person at risk for cardiac arrest. My guess is that you didn’t have a true Bhut Jolokia, or you got one grown in a climate that didn’t produce the hottest results. From Wikipedia (yeah, not the most accurate, but I believe this…)
The effect of climate on the Scoville rating of Bhut Jolokia peppers is dramatic. A 2005 study comparing percentage availability of capsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin in Bhut Jolokia peppers grown in Tezpur (Assam) and Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh), India showed that the heat of the pepper is decreased by over 50% in Gwalior’s more arid climate.[23]
Scares me when she talks like that.
World record for eating of chilies. Egads.
http://www.nowpublic.com/strange/guinness-record-eating-worlds-hottest-chilli-ghost-chilli
Nobody has left a cat caption for me yet! So far, my best one is (IMHO) “You paid HOW MUCH for car insurance???”
CW, for the last photo:
“We’ll get to it when we’re done with our union break.”
Oh that would be awful. A cat union? Brotherhood of Felines.
More like a cat-ass-trophy
Ok here’s my caption
“You’re not really going to eat those are you? Come on, throw those things away and let me set you up with a nice, crunchy mouse.”
What, did you channel Krosp??
*paws fuzzy toy*
“WTF is this crap??”
Would you believe those two cats turn their nose up at kitty kibbles with bacon fat drizzled on?
They must be damaged somehow.
No refunds for defective merchandise.
Cat caption:
“No WAY… Barney Frank is a Congressman? Fuh rill dough?”