pimientos de padrón harvest!

Monday night I harvested the three pimientos de padrón that were ~2" long.



Then I prepared them in olive oil with sea salt, as per the Spanish tapas style:



They were so delicious! The texture was fantastically soft and supple, unlike the pepper varieties available locally.  They were even pretty spicy considering they were still green and only 2" long.  They tasted just like they were in Spain.  After all the peppers that we've tried to imitate them, it was so nice to taste pimientos de Padrón again.  There´s really no substitute.  I can´t wait for the next harvest, hopefully we´ll have enough ripe at once for a full platter!