If that old dude like that I could kill him with some of the stuff I do with peppers.
Not bragging well maybe a little.
He looked like a real nice guy.
Make a pasta sauce based on peppers not tomatoes.
I love peppers so much I have found so many ways to utilize them in my cooking and no they aren't all hot peppers.
Take the Jimmy Nardello peppers cut in half lengthwise de-seed pan fry till they start to canalize and layer in with lasagna.
As far as I am concerned you can put some sort of pepper in just about anything and make it better one way or another.
Worth