The sight of the lights thrilled her, reminded her she needed to stop moping around and live her life like a glowing chili pepper.
She wanted a life filled with chili pepper lights.
Cayenne pepper This is a chili pepper I use a lot.
Perhaps the most well known dish is Kung Pao chicken, which is fried with peanuts and chili pepper.
This infuses the whole dish with the flavor and heat of the chili, thus making the removal of the chili pepper from the dish to reduce the heat a moot point.