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Welcome to the new Campervan Chef blog! This started out life as a blog called 'Kylie's Kitchen' and ran out of steam some time ago. Since then life has changed and Kylie's Kitchen as it stood is no more. I started out as an an enthusiastic home cook but now work as a chef and cook for others in all sorts of situations. You'll find out more about this side of me if you keep tabs on my scribbles on here. I blog about food and cooking, life, family, friends and pets. I will also be keeping you up to date with our travels to our second home; the beautiful Greek island of Skiathos and the dog shelter we support there. Join us as our journey through life continues...

Monday, 13 August 2012

Feeling hot hot hot!

The rain's come in and there's steak mince in the fridge that needs using up.  That calls for one thing and one thing only...CHILLI!

Everyone knows how to make chilli so I won't bore you to death with yet another same old same old recipe.  This evening, though, I'm using a couple of scotch bonnet peppers.  Just had a taste and it still needs a lot more cooking time to let everything come together but, WOW, it's a hottie!

Scotch Bonnet (capsicum chinense) is well used in Caribbean cooking but also grows in The Maldives, Guyana and parts of West Africa.  Apparently it's so named because of its resemblance to a Tam O'Shanter hat!  They have a Scoville rating of 100 000 - 350 000 compared to the humble and well used jalapeño, which measures mere 2 500 - 8 000 on the Scoville Scale!

Iced loo roll on the morrow, methinks!

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