harvested wild blueberries

Blazing Blueberries

Lois Manno Fired-Up Fruits, In the Kitchen with Chile Peppers Leave a Comment

by Lois Manno Don’t be fooled by the cool blue color—blueberries are rapidly becoming one of the hottest fruits around. Touted as a “superfood” that can fight high cholesterol, heart disease, cancer, and a host of other maladies, blueberries are medicine that’s good for you…and delicious too! According to the Encyclopedia of Healing Foods by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph …

The Lawyer's Testicle Tree

Avocado Madness!

Dave DeWitt Cooking with Chiles, Fired-Up Fruits, In the Kitchen with Chile Peppers Leave a Comment

by Dave DeWitt Don’t believe all those people who tell you avocado is a vegetable, because it’s not.  It’s a fruit just like mangos, pears, tomatoes, chiles, and apples.  It just happens to pair well with some vegetables like lettuce, especially in salads, so that’s why people think it’s a veggie.  It’s one of my favorite fruits, along with mangos …

High Heat But No Meat

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by Nancy Gerlach, R.D., Food Editor Emeritus Recipes: Mongolian Asian Noodle SaladCuban Beans and RiceGreen Chile Artichoke Hearts and PastaThree-Chile Tamale PieDal Curry Vegetarianism was once thought to be a fad by most people, but no more. There are an increasing number of people are giving up meat and not just for religious or spiritual reasons. Research has shown a …

Bam! It’s Spam-Fest!

Dave DeWitt In the Kitchen with Chile Peppers Leave a Comment

  By Dave DeWitt The Hallowed Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota   Your always adventurous editor was recently selected as the only judge at the annual Albuquerque Press Club Spam-Fest.  At first I was apprehensive because Spam is not a favorite food of mine, but then the organizers promised free bar privileges, so I had no choice but to judge …

Yo Soy un Chiltepínero!

Dave DeWitt Cooking with Chiles, In the Kitchen with Chile Peppers, Making Salsa and Hot Sauce, Mexico and Central America Leave a Comment

 By Dave DeWitt Above, the Sierra Madre, Home of Chiltepins My amigo Antonio swears that the motto of the Sonoran bus lines is “Better Dead Than Late,” and I believe him.  The smoke-belching buses were flying by us on curves marked by shrines commemorating the unfortunate drivers whose journeys through life had abruptly ended on this mountain road.  We waved …