Christmas Day Shishito Peppers

These are the Burpee Hybrid Shishito peppers called Dragon Roll. I bought them as live plants from Home Depot. Burpee offers the live plants on their web site, too, but they sell out fast.

The wrinkled texture is offputting, but I do not know of any other pepper that tastes as good as these, and the leaves are tender and good to float in broth. The plants are fast growing, hardy and prolific even in the scorching dry heat of the high desert.