Very nice! Some great looking peppers there!

What are you planning on doing with your first harvest?

Great looking 1'st harvest!

Are you planning to let some Jalapenos and Serranos ripen full red or do you prefer green? Both green and red are great!

Congrats.

Awesome! Congrats on the first of many to come!

Nice first harvest. Some good usable peppers there. Now that you picked 'em, you gotta eat 'em. You will like the Hot Hungarian Wax peppers too. As with the seranos and jalapenos, they don't have to be fully ripe (red) to be picked and eaten.
Bruce

Okay, I feel like a giddy 16 yr old who got his first car haha. I just made 6 burgers and cut up some jalepenos and put them in the burger, they were amazing. Now im drying some out to make some powder, probably experiment with cayenne, serrano, and jalepeno! Not sure what to do with my Hungarian Wax, theyre ALL fully ripened to an awesome RED which I love and theyre huge!!! none are small so any ideas about what meals to make with hungarian or any other peppers please fill me in!

Here you go, a HHW recipe. I eat these on sandwiches. They stay nice and crunchy. I eat a sandwich a day with these pepper slices.

This is a version of a recipe first posted by Shoontok that I have modified to my own liking. Feel free to adjust the ingredient totals or add or delete any ingredients as you see fit.

I will assume you are using half pint jars. For pint jars, just double the ingredients.

First, create a mixture of Distilled vinegar and water at a 3 to 1, vinegar to water ratio. Make enough to fill all the jars with the peppers. Keep in mind the peppers will fill about 1/4 of the jar volume. Set this aside for now.

Next, Slice your HHW peppers about 1/16th inch slices. I leave the seeds in but that is up to you. Then pack them into clean jars to the top (pack them down a bit).
Then add about 1 Tablespoon of minced garlic on top of the pepper slices in each jar. You can mince fresh garlic or buy a jar of minced garlic. I am lazy and used the stuff in a jar. Then add a couple teaspoons of black peppercorns. (they can be found in the spice section at the supermarket). Lastly add about a teaspoon of sea salt.

Finally, pour the vinegar water mixture into the jars of pepper slices almost to the very top of the jars. Then seal the jars, shake them up a bit to get the ingredients mixed in and then place in the fridge.

You can start eating them any time, however, it is best to wait a couple days for the ingredients to diffuse.

Note: Remember that these are not canned according to standard canning guidelines and will eventually spoil. This is why they will need to be kept in the fridge just like an opened store bought jar of peppers. They should be fine for a good 2-3 months if kept refrigerated.
Enjoy,
Bruce

everyone, thanks so much for the support and the recipe is awesome, although I dont quite have enough to pickle any hungarian wax peppers, maybe a jar...lol...but heres another pick of my hungarian wax i just picked to eat for lunch, I have 3 other plants and probably 7 more peppers to pick, and im waiting until they all turn red. Thanks again!

Excellent HHW specimen. Beautiful ripe red color. i have a couple dozen hanging on my two plants now that I am waiting to start turning. I normally pick them in the yellow stage but I am going for one final large harvest on them for this season. If you only have a few, I would start with that one and slice it up into rings and then put the slices on a big freekin deli sandwich.

Otherwise, make an asian dish or mexican dish and dice one or two of them up to season the dish. They are mild to mid heat and work great for seasoning for folks that are not into the super hots. Or mix some into a burger like you did with your Jalapenos.

You could stuff a few of them but normally for something like that, you want more than just a couple peppers.

And now that you mention burgers, I think I will be defrosting some ground beef and will mince a pod into my burger...or maybe just use some of my cold canned HHW on top of it like pickles.

Bruce

Good harvest! The pods are definitely with you!

esox07, thanks for the recipe. I'll definitely try it out. The pictures make it look very tasty.

How long do you keep them in the fridge?