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Hot Pepper Confusion

by Lisa Creech Bledsoe · 11 comments

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hot pepper confusion

I never cooked with them growing up, and now I can’t seem to figure out which peppers are which. My grocery store does not help me, as you can see. If they would simply line up the correct sign over the correlative peppers, I’d maybe get closer to cooking with these marvelous creatures.

The sign above the peppers says:

Anaheim Pepper
Serrano Pepper
Tomatillos
Jalapeno Pepper
Banana Pepper
Poblano Pepper

Can someone please tell me which peppers are which, and point out the one or two I should begin my cooking experiment with. If you have a recipe recommendation I’ll take that, too. Many thanks!

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