Blessed to Be in Bhutan
The Enjoyment of Bhutanese Comfort Food Story and Photos by Diana G. Armstrong A mountain road in Bhutan. With frayed nerves and jackhammered bodies, we arrive in Thimphu. Our shock absorber-free vehicle has come to a stop in the largest city in the country of Bhutan. To get here we jostled over mountain passes that were veritable nail biters. The …
Machine for Peeling and Seed Removal?
Hello Mary: As you might expect, I’m very knowledgeable about the chile industry in New Mexico. I’ve never heard of such a machine. To the best of my knowledge it doesn’t exist, despite what you may have heard. There are mechanical seedling planters, mechanical thinners, mechanical harvesters for some varieties, and mechanical sorters for harvested chiles. But a mechanical peeler …
World’s Earliest Pit Barbecue?
Remains of a 31,000 year-old mammoth and her calf have been discovered in excavations in the Czech Republic, reports Jiri Svoboda, a professor at the University of Brno. The meats were cooked luau-style underground. Svoboda said, “We found the heating stones still within the pit and around.” He believes that the central roasting pit and the circle of boiling …
Smoking Peppers Hints
Dave, I have been smoking peppers for years (anything hot;) mixing them with some I have dehydrated and some dried onion and dried garlic then grinding them up in my wife’s blender and putting the end result in shakers. So far I have been doing carefully this in a charcoal smoker but this year I have almost 100 plants so …