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[Frumple]

I've not entirely sure how, but today I made chicken that smelled exactly like bacon. Cooked it like I've mentioned upthread a few times, sorta'-braised. Seasoned primarily with curry powder and paprika, secondarily with basil/rosemary/black pepper/brown sugar/lemon juice, dash or two of cayenne. Didn't taste like bacon at all (it was good, mind, but distinctly chicken, not bacon), but it smelled dead on like I had cooked up a plate of maple cooked bacon.

I swear there's something about cooking with curry seasoning that just kinda' makes my sense of smell go haywire. The seasoning on its own is fine and distinct, but when I start adding stuff to it my nose just doesn't seem to understand wtf is going on. Half the time it doesn't smell like food, other times it smells incredible, and then there's the times where it smells incredible but nothing like whatever it is I'm cooking, lot of the time it will cycle through those three states as I cook. Bacon chicken, iirc I made potatoes that smelled like cotton candy once, so on and so forth. S'friggin' weird.

[hector13]

Have you ever had Covid? That does weird things to your sense of smell apparently.

[Il Palazzo]

We've grown some hot peppers in our garden, because why not. Now, what to do with them? They're too hot to use more than half at a time in any regular dish, so we'll probably have to settle on some long term storage solutions. So far the only thing that comes to mind is to make a chilli paste and put it in jars.
Any other ideas?

[Frumple]

Dry out, crumble up? Turn into seasoning, something you can stick in a shaker.

Not sure of the specifics of doing that with peppers, but it should be possible? Probably make it easier to use just a little on any particular dish, too, or can fiddle with making your own seasoning mixes.