Well, hello everyone. It's time do a video that is coming to you thanks to a
watcher, Josh, from
eastern Colorado. Now Josh was kind enough to send me some of the interesting things that he has growing in his garden.
And I asked if Josh wanted any kind of special shout out or anything.
He said just to tell everybody to support your local farmers' market.
Good idea. It's always a good idea. Definitely get a lot of
improvement in the quality of stuff if it's actually
grown by somebody local that cares about it, instead of from a big supermarket where it tastes like styrofoam.
So, always a good idea. So yeah, once again, thank you Josh for sending me the stuff.
So, what... he sent me a big box of things. Let's choose a couple of things for today to review. Oh,
oh God,
these are
some very, very hot chili peppers.
What should I review?
These are nightshades. I'll take these nightshades. Yeah, that's a good idea. I'm gonna review these. We've got two things: we've got
Roman nightshade, which is a relative of black nightshade.
I'm not too sure of the species of this offhand. And also wonderberries, which are actually a different species. So they're very closely related
to black nightshade, but a different species. These ones did not fare so
super well, as you can see there.
They got a little bit crushed, but I'm going to see if I can salvage something.
These ones are fine. These totally survived,
so at the very least, this might just be a video about these. A lot of people think that black nightshade is
deadly, like it will kill you. That is not true. Well, sort of true, but not true. A little bit true.
Deadly nightshade is not related to black nightshade.
It's a completely different genus. Black nightshade is actually closely related to tomatoes.
That's a fun fact. The thing that makes these a little bit iffy though is that if you eat the green ones,
that can kill you. Green ones are
dangerous. So because of that, you've got to be like a little bit careful with it.
Some people don't like eating like a whole bunch of these things.
I kind of go in that camp a little bit.
But I think it's fine. People make like jams out of these things and stuff like that.
You just have to be very careful not to eat the green ones-- to filter those out.
Also get rid of any stems and leaves and stuff like that, because that also, I believe, has poison in it. Wonderberries are
especially known for being good as a food. Roman nightshade however, is
not so super common. I've actually never heard of this, and looking it up online, I don't really see a whole lot.
So you can see that the Roman nightshade and the Wonderberries are very
similar, but the Roman nightshade are probably twice as big.
These are very tiny.
Josh informed me it's a better idea to eat the wonderberries first, because they're milder.
That's good. What's interesting is it's almost like a little bit salty. It's a little bit savory,
a little bit like a berry-- like blueberry or something. There's maybe like a hint of a
bell pepper kind of flavor to it. On a level of 1 to 10, where 10 is a sugar cube, this is maybe like
7?
7, or maybe an 8. It's pretty high up there.
They're not sour. Black nightshade I said tasted a little bit like... vaguely like tomatoes, vaguely like licorice. And
this does taste like that also, although I'm not thinking tomato
nearly as much. It's mild.
But I can see that like in a jam, with like a little bit of like lemon juice or something, that would be really tasty.
Ok, so next let's try the
Roman
nightshade.
Whoa! This one has
a tomato taste to it. A very distinct tomato flavor.
I have a scratch on the top of my mouth right now which is
highly irritated by this thing.
Hmm.
Let me wait until that passes.
Oh, I hope that goes away before I do peppers. Oh no.
That'll be awful.
It's a little bit sweet, but not as sweet as a wonderberry.
Maybe a
5 out of 10, around the same sweetness as a apple. Doesn't really have much of a sourness to it as well.
It's also quite savory. But the main thing with it is, it does taste like
tomatoes quite a lot. If you took these things and you like cook them
to make like a sauce out of it and put that on pasta, it would be like a black tomato sauce.
Which would be pretty cool. That would be pretty sweet.
This would be super useful in that sort of
application. Take some of these and put them on a salad. If anyone out there like owns a restaurant or a bar,
do this and then send me a check. Okay, send me about 50%, because this is brilliant:
take these,
take these Roman nightshade berries,
clean them, make sure they're not going to kill your
patrons, okay, and put them in the bottom of like a Bloody Mary, or a kind of
drink that would be good with a tomato kind of flavor, and
then put a straw in there and it'll be like a bubble tea.
Mm-hmm. These are like just about that size. They look actually like little black
tapioca balls like a bubble tea would have.
Yeah, there's just a little pop
of sugar, and
tomato, and like a little hint of licorice.
It's called the bloody Jared and
I'm
trademarking that right now. You can use it,
but send me a check. Okay, so I think that's...
so stupid. But, once again, thank you Josh for sending me these and
guys, I will see you next time--
possibly with a whole ton of peppers. Let's see if I survive.
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