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 …
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 …
Fiery Adventures at Ca’ d’Alfieri, Italy
Fiery Adventures at Ca’ d’Alfieri, Italy Story & photos by Harald Zoschke If you think of spicy Italy, most likely Calabria will come to your mind. But even in Northern Italy, a hotbed of heat can be found, thanks to a fiery couple that changed its career in the mid ’90s. Italian Maurizio Bovi and his German friend Harald Zoschke …
A World of Curries: The Curries of the U.K. and the Raj Reversed
By Dave DeWitt Recipes: Eggs Baked in Curry Sauce;Mulligatawny Soup;Lamb in Cashew Nut Curry; Chicken Tikka Massala; Mixed Vegetable Korma; Meat with Balti Curry Sauce While England was helping to spread curries around the globe through colonization and emigration, it was slowly becoming the curry capital of the world after India. How ironic for a country supposedly known for its bland foods! A …
A World of Curries: Accompaniments to Curry Dishes
By Dave DeWitt Recipes: Coconut Milk Rice Saffron Rice Cucumber Salad with Yogurt Spicy Indian Salad Mango and Coconut Chutney Apple and Raisin Chutney Naan Chapatti And what dishes should be served with the curries in this series? Most curries are served with some form of rice, and plain white rice is an excellent accompaniment to most curries. I …