Aug 23
When travelling through New Mexico, you can’t fail to be asked whether you want green or red chile on your food. It is as ubiquitous as tomato ketchup elsewhere in the world. It’s not surprising how often you are asked this question as the chile is the New Mexico State vegetable, as well as home …
Aug 22
The other day I was at the grocery store picking up some items for a dinner that I was going to make when it was more than apparent that Hatch Chile Season was in full swing. There were piles of fresh Hatch Chiles, bags of fire roasted Hatch Chiles for sale, not to mention food …
Aug 21
It’s Hatch Chile season in the South West US at the moment and there is a glut of really cheap chiles piling up in the supermarkets. At less than $1 per pound you can get about 8 large chiles, so I have been taking advantage of the harvest and most dishes have Hatch Chiles in …
Aug 20
Strangely, one of the most memorable aspects of my high school (EHS) was the cafeteria food. Everyone had their favorites but I don’t recollect there being a salad. Maybe there was one, but I was always on the “line” so I would have never seen it. I wore “fry-goggles” back in the day. “Fry- goggles” …
Aug 18
When was the last time you ate real homemade breakfast sausage? For most of us the answer is never with the most likely response being when a thick slice of sausage meat was cut from a plastic chub of breakfast sausage infrequently purchased from the grocery store. Unfortunately, the reality is that we have eaten …
