Chile Rellenos Casserole. My husband loves my cooking, but when we first got married, his taste buds hadn’t grown up yet.
The only things he wanted me to make were hamburgers, tacos, and pizza. When I talked about cooking some not-so-ordinary meals, he told me he wouldn’t eat them. Needless to say, to someone who loves to cook as much as I do, this was a bit of a disappointment. After we had been married for a couple of months, I came to the conclusion that the hamburger-taco-pizza routine wasn’t working for me — I was going to have to cook our meals separately.
Chicken Enchilada Puffs. Pork and Red Chile Stew « Las Vegas Food Adventures. Versions of this very traditional all-American stew can be found in nearly every home, diner and fancy restaurant in New Mexico.
It’s based on the wildly popular New Mexican chile pepper. This is the same chile variety used for roasted fresh green chiles, but left to ripen to deep red and dried. Strings of these fairly large chiles, called ristras, are often seen hanging from the front porches or in the kitchens in New Mexico to dry. They are generally sweeter and milder than the red chiles grown in California, and often will have no heat at all (as was the case with the chiles shown in the photos here.)
These dried chiles can be found in many major supermarkets these days, usually in the Mexican food aisle, or very easily on-line. When meat or poultry are stewed in the pureed pulp, the result is a rich, fragrant, deep red stew that is served as it is with warm flour tortillas or cornbread for soaking up the sauce. This is the basic recipe that is most often served in New Mexican homes.
Herbie Likes Spaghetti: A Delicious Take on a Mexican Favorite: Chiles Rellenos with Arroz Rojo. Recently we acquired a cook book by Rick Bayless. Similar to the Mario Batali's Molto Gusto, Bayless's Mexico One Plate at a Time is a wonderful way to explore a culture through it's food. Bayless provides excellent details on each dish, easy to follow yet comprehensive directions, and most importantly, the results are outstanding.
Despite what seems like a fairly simple combination of few ingredients, the result ends up being complex, authentic tasting, and delicious. Mango salsa. We picked up our first CSA share of the season on Wednesday and are now the happy owners of fantastic farm-fresh produce straight from the farmer.
Here in New York we have great greens and herbs, with a trickle of strawberries and cherries. So, why then, am I craving mangoes? Well, they are in season, just not in NYC. I made this for a dinner with friends a while ago, but things were too hectic, and late, for pictures. Ever since then I have been wanting to make a batch to share with you. These mangoes were super sweet, and I cut the sugar with lime zest, lime juice, red onion and cayenne. Fresh Mango Salsa 2 nearly over ripe mangoes, flesh removed and peeledzest of 1 limejuice of 2 limes1 medium red onion, finely diced1/4 teaspoon salt (or more)1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper1/8 cup diced chives, more for garnishseveral twists black pepper. Chicken Chile Relleno Pies Recipe. LunaCafe World Famous Green Chile Mac & Cheese.
If the great number of Google searches from around the globe that land on LunaCafe’s doorstep each week signify anything, then EVERYONE IN THE WORLD is looking for Chef Robert McGrath’s Green Chile Mac & Cheese recipe, which is a specialty of the Roaring Fork restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona.
This frantic searching is a bit perplexing because the recipe is readily available in Robert’s most excellent homage to cowboy cuisine, American Western Cooking, which should definitely be in every good cook’s library. So, for the price of a cookbook, which is chock full of bold and delectable dishes that you will make again and again, you get the Green Chile Macaroni recipe. (If I haven’t convinced you to buy the book, you can go here instead and get the recipe for free.)
But before you shout HOORAY and run off to get the recipe, I must in good conscience tell you this one little thing. Not enough green chile flavor; barely perceptible in fact. LunaCafe OtherWorldly Green Chile Mac & Cheese. Green Chili Mac and Cheese. Thanks for this Austin.
There’s this really cool spot across from the Austin Convention Center called Moonshine. They serve kind of new style Southern food. Mexican Chile Marinade and Sauce Recipe. 30 by 30: Poblano Albondigas with Ancho Chile Soup. Breast of Chicken with Fiery, Fruity Guajillo Sauce. Stuffed Poblanos. Here’s a pretty easy and straightforward recipe for you!
You are going to need to whip out your blender for the sauce! There’s a little bit of prep involved with about an hour of cooking–but that’s it. This means you can clean up your kitchen and watch your kid run around outside in the backyard while you wait. Green Chile Crema. If you’ve been following along, you know that we just got back from Arizona and are still reeling from the beauty of the Sonoran desert and all the great food we ate in Scottsdale and Phoenix.
One of the must eat dishes on our list was Roaring Fork’s Green Chile Macaroni. After trying for two nights, without avail, to get into the packed restaurant, we managed to slide in on the third afternoon just as the bar was opening at 4:30. We took a table on the patio and shared this most delicious Mac & Cheese. It was well worth the wait. I determined on the spot to recreate the dish as soon as I got back to the LunaCafe OtherWorldly Kitchen. I created this sauce as a green chile flavor element for the Green Chile Mac & Cheese Throw Down (which will post next) and then got to thinking how useful it would be in a good number of other dishes. Green Chile Crema. Mini Tamale Pies Recipe.
Festive Pomegranate Salsa: Simple, Sophisticated and Delicious. Pomegranates are a gift of the season.
There’s nothing more exciting than cutting open a pomegranate for the first time only to find the jewel-like seeds enveloped in a sweet and antioxidant-laden fruit. Cuban-Inspired Braised Beef with Oranges. Cuban Inspired Braised Beef with Oranges – If you have a teenage boy in the family, you may understand the following.
Mexican Chicken with Jalapeno Popper Sauce. July 26, 2010 Mexican Chicken with Jalapeno Popper Sauce I hope everyone is staying cool!
This past weekend was a scorcher on the East Coast.