Last of the Peppers

Can you believe this haul?  I had an incredible bounty of peppers this year.  Of course I planted 8 plants so what did I expect?  My sister and I counted them and we had 145 peppers, yes, that's correct, 145.  Some of them were pretty small, but still, that's an enormous amount of peppers! 

We were expecting our first freeze last night so I picked all the peppers that were left on the plants.  Peppers don't like frost and my plants were too huge to cover.  I had no choice but to pick them.

OK, Diane...what did you do with 145 peppers?  Well, we kept some of the bigger ones out to make my husband's favorite dish, stuffed peppers, and the rest we cleaned, roasted and froze.  At the end of the day I put up 19 bags of roasted peppers.

Not too bad for a couple of hours' work.  Now I'll have roasted peppers to use through the winter in stews, soups, sauces, frittatas, omelets, etc.  But next year, I don't think I'll plant 8 peppers plants :)