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the same way green peppers taste different than red
my goodness... green peppers are merely immature red peppers? i had absolutely *no* idea. where do yellow and orange peppers come from??
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from green peppers.. Purple peppers, too. that is why red (and other color) peppers are usually more expensive than green peppers-- they take longer to grow, and because they are fully ripe, they rot faster. ( Haven't you ever seen a green pepper with some red? )
peppers, unlike some fruit/vegetable will not ripen one picked. green tomato's can be gassed with ethanol?-- a naturally occuring gas that fruit gives off (apples give off a lot) to turn them red and "ripen" them-- of course they don't taste as good as vine ripened ones.. but a pepper picked at the green stage will not ripen into a red one... It has to do that before being picked.
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But Max, are you sure his peppers did not also change colour as they ripened? I once grew Amazonian hot peppers. They were much smaller than regular peppers (max 1 inch long and 1/4 inch wide) but they did change colour and strength as they ripened.
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Portabella mushrooms are just the little white "cap" mushrooms-- that have been left to grow to maturity-- at which point, marketers sell them from much more $$$.
Helen, what I was trying to find out here is the "correct" term for them - portobello or portabella or something in between?
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Sorry AnnaS-- but i don't much like any mushrooms-- and i have seen both spelling in greengrocers.. so i have no idea- i think, because they are not a seperate variety of mushroom (the way a puffball is a different mushroom from a morrel,) but rather just a "cap" mushroom being marketed differently, the name (or rather the spelling of the name) is most likely quite variable.
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Yes, Max-- "peppers" like mushrooms, is such a general term. Most americans are familiar with bell peppers, and the yellow, orange, red, purple varities are all a shade of green when immature. (but not all of them are sold immature as "green peppers") many "chili's" (chili peppers) also change color. But not all peppers do.
The varities sold in most US markets are select for the ability to ship well, and stay "fresh" a long time (as are most vegetables) to get the interesting peppers-- you have to grow them your self-- and they have a long growing period-- and i am 1) to lazy to start them early enough, 2) inclined to a perennial gardern, so i have soft fruits and herbs, but no vegetables. I make do with the same old peppers readily available in the greengrocer.
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of troy,
I checked my sources and, unlike portobello aka portabella, morel is spelled only one way.....single r (wink)
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Portabella mushrooms are just the little white "cap" mushrooms
My dictionary at home (I finally looked) says they're actually the little 'brown' or cremini mushrooms, left to grow to maturity. Incidentally, they only list the portobello spelling.
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