I need help on a veggi

Capsicum is the active ingredient in hot peppers that reduces arthritis pain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum

Oh yeah and bocconcini is mini fresh mozzarella balls.

What are these recipes?

Sarah and Dark, thank you. I bought a recipe book and it keeps having that in there as ingrediences. I had no idea what it was. So the capsicum is a pepper? And bocconcini is a monzerella ball? Heheheh, I thought it was a veggi of some sort. Thanks again my friends.

Wish I could help but looks like the other ladies have this one covered. :)

Can you please post up the recipe?? What you are saying doesn't make any sense at all and NO CAPSICUM is NOT A PEPPER.. please read link!

I am sorry my dear friend but I have no idea what those are. Thank you for sharing that information Sarah. I would have never been able to guess on those. :-)

Capsicum is what makes peppers hot. For example, if you use Capsum Cream on, say your arm for tennis elbow as I have had to do, after a while, your arm will burn when you put it on. It is actually in the seeds, which is why you take the seeds out of the peppers before you eat them.

I don't know M&M sorry.

Michelle - As for taking the seeds out of the peppers I don't take them out. Whats the use of using a pepper if you have to take the seeds out of them because they're hot; why not just delete the hot peppers from the said menu???

Capsicum is the term used outside the US for peppers. This includes hot peppers or chilies, and also what we call bell peppers. My guess would be the recipe is calling for bell peppers unless you can tell that the recipe is supposed to be spicy. Hot peppers or capsicums are most often found in N & S American and Asian cuisine. If this is a European, New Zealand or Australian cookbook, it is more likely that it is bell peppers.

If you really mean bocconcini - that is a cheese - Mozzarella di Bufala - made from buffalo milk, though these days it typically has cows milk added and in the US is usually 100% cows milk. The easiest substitution is fresh mozzarella, the golf ball to tennis ball sized balls of cheese packed in light brine.

But since you mentioned going veggie I wondered if you meant broccolini which is a variant of broccoli that has long slender stems with little broccoli floret type heads. This veggie is showing up in a lot of recipes and I found it was popular in Southeast Asia.

Nope, Sorry!~

Good luck on going Veggie. FYI for food type Alton Brown and what ever you want to know about food in google. 9 times out of 10 you will find your answer. I concur with Bill.

I haven't a clue.

Wow! Glad somebody knew! I had no clue!

Hey I think Mr Bill knows what he's talking about cause I
just read up on it but was to late and he beat me to it!
Way to go Mr Bill!

Hi M&M

Ssory, but *capsaicin* is what makes peppers hot. *Capasicum* is the Britih/Aus/NZ word for "pepper". On other words, if you live anywhere but America, recipes call for capsicumwhen they mean an ordinary greeen bell pepper. If they meant a hot pepper, the recipe would call for a "chilli" (and that's how it's spelled, too!); if the book is British you may also find it referring to marrows instead of zucchini and aubergines instead of eggplant. And perhaps the measurements are metric as well.

I agree that capsicum is the name for peppers. This is probably referring to bell peppers of any color. I'm not sure about the other one.

Ya all have been so wonderful helping me out. Thank you.
bocconcini is the correct spelling
Many thanks again for your help.

wish i could help

Reads like it might taste good.

Mr Bill said what I was going to. Capsicum is the word for peppers, of any kind, outside of the U.S. Mainly in the U.K. and Australia. Bocconcini are fresh mozzarella balls. Maybe the reason why these ingredients are mentioned a few times in the book is because it is printed for the U.K. or somewhere in Europe? If so, I am sure there are other words you won't recognize - swedes (sweet potatoes??? or turnips?) , rocket lettuce (arugula), aubergine (eggplant) are just a few that I can think of.

I've been vegetarian in the past. It was difficult for me to go vegetarian in those days (the early 1980's) but these days it is much easier as substitute foods can be found easily at supermarkets and health food stores. Good luck.

I have heard of the hot pepper one. I'm not knowledgeable here, but I'm happy you've gotten some advice!

Please consider visiting & joining me at vegancooking.gather.com - you can share some recipes you are trying and have some of mine!
Peace,

lol, I'd heard of both before, but never actually taken the time to figure it out. Good to know...

can U give us some recipes?