Scotch bonnets

[Freamon]

Anyone got a good recipe for a Mediterranean curry? Ideally with lots of dried herbs etc.

[Jubber]

Scotch Bonnett? A chilli for schoolgirls.

Dorset Nagas. Now they be chillies.

You can buy them by the bush, mail order..

[hyperD]

I've just made "Weeping Tiger" with Naga Jolokia chilli. I used one (wore gloves this time round because I burnt my bellend bunnet last time).

If you do forget to wash/glove up and accidentally touch the bunnet, I suggest immersing the affected apparatus in a pot of chilled yoghurt, a la Wilt (Tom Sharpe).

It does work but probably not a good idea to put the yoghurt back in the fridge and recounting the hilarity to your wife as she's just finished her yoghurt and muesli breakfast.

[Old Hack]

Scotch bonnets, pah, childrens plaything.

I grow my own Bhut Jolokias/Ghost chillies and them's makes the difference twixt man and boy. I believe the Dorset Naga's have been superceeded by some chap in the midlands cross breeding some. The first year I grew my own, the first one to grow, I took from the plant and took a chunk out of, to see just how hot they were. I found out that they are kin hot, as in, lose the ability to speak for a short while.

My favourite chilli is either the F1 Banana hybrid (sweet chilli taste, with nice heat) or the chippotle, which adds an almost chocolately flavour to a chilli (good tip is to put a little chocolate in a chilli by the way, a nice plain chocolate).

Med curries often best flavoured with chilli oil (a good strong one) as they are not so highly spiced. I make my chilli oils with a small easy to grow chilli called a Prairie Fire; easy to grow outdoors (uncovered), cracking heat and good yield. I also make a chilli oil with the Bhut Jolokias, but them's manly oils.

I made a chilli with 2 Bhut Jolokias last bonfire night. T'was a night the pan was used often, and the head buzzed.