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Bhut Jolokia-The Hottest Chile Pepper

By admin on Monday, December 31st, 2007 | 4 Comments

There is a recurring bit in “The Simpsons” where Homer eats some kind of fiery spicy hot food, has a cartoonish physical reaction like flaming smoke rings flying out of his mouth while shrieking, then promptly and calmly says “more please.” Not so when Dr. Paul Bosland of the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico [...]

Celebrating Hatch New Mexico Green Chile

By admin on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 | No Comments

Central Market locations in Texas and an assortment of Tex-Mex restaurants usually set aside a couple weekends this time of year to celebrate the green Hatch chile harvest. Not wanting to miss out, I zipped over to the Central Market Dallas location last Friday. They had a couple guys out front flame roasting the famous [...]

It’s New Mexico Chile Season

By admin on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 | No Comments

You know the Hatch chile season is really underway when you walk into a Walmart in Rowlett, Texas and come face to face with long green New Mexican chile goodness. What surprised me a little was the improved quality of the green Hatch chili pods over what I had seen the other day at a [...]

Hatch Green Chile and Swiss Cheese. Yum.

By admin on Friday, August 10th, 2007 | No Comments

For me, there is something magically delicious about putting New Mexican chile together with Swiss cheese. Not just somewhere in the same dish or recipe, but right on top of each other. Quick examples would include a burger with a slice of Swiss cheese top and and chopped green Hatch chili on top of the [...]

Jalapenos as Instruments of Punishment

By admin on Saturday, August 4th, 2007 | No Comments

In 1967 when The Beatles were tripping in “Strawberry Fields Forever” and The Doors were urging us to “Light My Fire” I was a “new cadet” at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. In that day “new cadets” at N.M.M.I. were under a hazing system similar to Plebes at West Point. We had our heads [...]