Chillies - Love them (and the guys who sell them)

Tonight I cooked a cashew sauce and chilli pepper sauce, bathed over chicken and red pepper. Not bad although it needed roasted cashews rather than raw ones. Anyway I don't seem to be able to pay for my chillies these days because I've normally just got two or three. The gentleman at the Sri Lankan shop just laughed when I offered to pay and today it was the same at the grocers on the corner. He was washing grapes and he just said just "have them". I told him he was kind but he better let me pay sometime soon and he laughed. These litttle green bullets are two-a-penny, common currency, but they turn a sauce or a salad into a feast. So small and so light that they hardly need bothering with, more trouble to weigh and cost than they are worth but with all the delectable flavour from something so small and supple....