ingredient of the week

today the ingredient of the week is black pepper and other peppers!!

here are some facts:

black pepper comes from the dried fruit peppercorn

Black Peppercorns are green when harvested, and change color while drying.

White Peppercorns are Black Pepper without skin.

Black Pepper represents about 50% of a typical restaurant’s spice usage.

Pepper has been used in cooking for over 4,000 years. Pepper was placed in Egyptian tombs to accompany the pharaohs over 2,500 years before Christ.

there are lots of types of peppers!

ways to use peppers:

there are lots of things that you can add pepper to for example...

potato

cookies

sausages

meat , fish

pepper sauce