New Mexico and chiles--welcome to new member

[Guest guest]

Hola, Esperanza!!

    Welcome!  Good for you for eating " chile " foods even while nursing!  I did

pretty much the same thing (I love foods with onions, garlic and

peppers...)--when both my daughters were young, THEY loved to eat raw

onions--and even I cannot do that! (I cook them.)  I blame their liking for

those foods on my nursing them while eating all things spicy.

 

     I remember my kids being out in the backyard to play one time, and it was

spring.  We get this very pungent wild " garlic " that sprouts up everywhere in

the springtime, and it was growing all around in our backyard. 

 

    NO one in their right mind ever EATS that stuff, but my daughters were

outside, playing in the back yard.  They came running inside to tell me they

were " playing house " and had " fixed dinner " .  I thought they had some great

imaginary " food " until one of them came up close to give me a big hug and I

got a whiff of her wild-garlic breath!  (WHEW!!!)

 

    I have only been to New Mexico twice, but I so LOVE their " chiles " !  On our

last trip there, my dear husband bought me a nice-sized bag of ground up red

chiles: " Hatch Medium " , it was called. I LOVE it on EVERYTHING!!  Next time, I

want to look for something (more) " hot " and maybe  " smoked " !

 

Best regards, and again, welcome!

Laura B., in Illinois

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Laura,

 

Good to see you like NM chiles! What I'm finding if I go out to eat now that I

have to ask if the chile has meat in it and one time I was trying to get a bean

and cheese sopapilla with tomatoes and lettuce and chile, but both red and green

chile had meat! I can't even fathom any NM dish without chile and sat there

staring at the menu, tryign to decide what I could do! Finally I told her my

dilema and she offered me salsa. Which worked better than nothing, but oh man if

I ever had to live without my NM chile permanently I don't know what I would do.

 

So, which did you prefer, red or green? Or " Christmas " (both)?