{"id":36125,"date":"2016-11-19T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T00:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/?p=36125"},"modified":"2016-11-19T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T02:29:18","slug":"how-to-slice-bell-peppers-for-freezing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/how-to-slice-bell-peppers-for-freezing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Slice Bell Peppers for Freezing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It is one of the ironies of life<\/strong> that I love to grow and preserve peppers. I don&#8217;t like hot peppers at all, and I am very selective about how I will eat bell peppers. Fajitas are the main way, but, oh, what a way!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Freeze Hot Peppers and Bell Peppers for Easy Winter Eating\" href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/freeze-hot-peppers-and-bell-peppers-for-easy-winter-eating\/\" target=\"_blank\">peppers of any type are easy to freez<\/a>e<\/span>, which I have been doing for years. They even last a long time in the freezer. My husband insists that the jalape\u00f1os and habaneros are just as good after 5 years in the freezer! They do seem to fumigate the kitchen just as effectively when he fries them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/How-to-Slice-Bell-Peppers-for-Freezing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36133\" title=\"how-to-slice-bell-peppers-for-freezing\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/How-to-Slice-Bell-Peppers-for-Freezing-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"how-to-slice-bell-peppers-for-freezing\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/How-to-Slice-Bell-Peppers-for-Freezing-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/How-to-Slice-Bell-Peppers-for-Freezing-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/How-to-Slice-Bell-Peppers-for-Freezing-1024x562.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have some bell peppers in the freezer from 3 years ago that have been tasting good in fajitas, but I was still happy when my husband and daughter helped me freeze the ones I picked just before the real fall cold set it this year. We ended up with about 8 gallon ziplock bags worth (I didn&#8217;t think I would have enough to bother pulling out the vacuum sealer. Whoops.)<\/p>\n<p>The daughter I mentioned is now a professional chef, so I frequently learn useful techniques when she is home visiting. When I saw how she was cutting the bell peppers, I was quite intrigued and took some video in case it might also be useful to some of you:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VkNM5tMyEgc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36135\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bell-pepper-cages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36135\" title=\"What my chef-daughter was calling the bell pepper seed cages.\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bell-pepper-cages-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"What my chef-daughter was calling the bell pepper seed cages.\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bell-pepper-cages-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bell-pepper-cages-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bell-pepper-cages-1024x816.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What my chef-daughter was calling the bell pepper seed cages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She has some amazing knife skills at this point, so I&#8217;m sure it would go slower if I was doing it. However, my husband made it look pretty easy, too. I do know that I should keep my fingertips tucked in, away from the knife. That is an important part of being able to cut more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>I bet we will use some of the left over turkey from Thanksgiving to make some fajitas. Now, I don&#8217;t know what I am looking forward to more, stuffing or fajitas!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36136\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bell-peppers-in-bags.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36136\" title=\"Sliced bell peppers in their bags for the freezer.\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bell-peppers-in-bags-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"Sliced bell peppers in their bags for the freezer.\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bell-peppers-in-bags-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bell-peppers-in-bags-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bell-peppers-in-bags-1024x551.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sliced bell peppers in their bags for the freezer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is one of the ironies of life that I love to grow and preserve peppers. I don&#8217;t like hot peppers at all, and I am very selective about how I will eat bell peppers. Fajitas are the main way, but, oh, what a way! Fortunately, peppers of any type are easy to freeze, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3,19],"tags":[56,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyimprovisations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}