Dear Rabbi. Can people who much enjoy eating jalapeno (chili) peppers, can they add them to the list of fruits and vegetables one eats on Rosh Hashana and says a Yehi Ratzon on them? I this case it may be appropriate to bless us with having a Shana Tova, full with sharpness in learning Torah. Is that correct?

Nitei Gavriel (1: 29: 7) mentions that indeed one may add other Simonim to awaken the Kavanah and intention to recite a Tefila and bracha that is meaningful on Rosh Hashana. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it can be done.