by Nancy Gerlach, Fiery-Foods.com Food Editor Emeritus Recipes in this Issue: Caribbean Fresh Fruit Compote with Habanero Spiked Syrup Papas con Chile Colorado Huevos Rancheros with Black Bean Salsa Southwest Breakfast Burritos Blue Corn Chimayo Chile Bacon Muffins Breakfast Pizza We all know the importance of starting the day with a healthy breakfast, but lets face it, bland toast and …
Chiles and Chocolate
by Dave DeWitt The culinary mating of hot chiles and chocolate was unforgettably revealed to me in the mercado in Oaxaca, where the molinos–grinding mills–in adjacent stalls were processing cacao beans in one stall and mole paste with chiles in the other. In this ancient city, I had this sudden epiphany that, in prehistoric times, ancient cooks would have naturally …
Candied Capsicums
Story and Photos by Harald Zoschke Recipes: Candying Chiles Bold Banana Bread Belligerent Butter Scotch Blistering Blue Lagoon Cocktail Many chile gardeners know harvest time as “too many chiles”, and we already showed you various ways to use and preserve the plenty of pods, for example by drying, pickling, or juicing. Now here’s a new way to keep the pods …
Mango Madness!
By Dave DeWitt Recipes: Pineapple-Mango Salsa Soup Marie’s Green Mango Chutney Green Mango Slaw with Papaya Seed Dressing Beef Kabobs Tropicale Spiced-Up Chicken in Coconut Shells with Mango Cream Grilled Scallops with a Rocotillo Mango Relish I remember clearly the first time I ever tasted a mango. I was 12 years old and living in northern Virginia. A friend of …
Mulberry Madness!
By Dave DeWitt Recipes: Sweet-Hot Mulberry Jam Chicken with Chipotle-Mulberry Barbecue Sauce Grilled Lamb Chops with Mulberry Salsa Country Cobbler Mulberry Ice Cream During the late spring and early summer there are certain specific destinations I go to on my long walks in the South Valley of Albuquerque: fruiting mulberry trees. I carry along a plastic bag and spend …