Recipes in this Article: Southwest Salsa Soup Noodle and Shrimp Saladwith Oriental Cucumber Salsa Oven Baked Quesidallas withRoasted Corn and Turtle Bean Salsa Empanaditas with MangoBanana Habanero Salsa By Nancy Gerlach, SuperSite Food Editor Emeritus Salsa! Just the word conjures up images of fiestas, brash rhythms, bright colors and …
Super Summer Salsas
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from editor Gywneth Doland’s book, Seductive Salsa, published in 2007. For thousands of years, Mesoamerican cooks have been grinding together chiles and tomatoes in rough stone mortars and today, salsa remains a part of every meal in Mexico, enlivening eggs at breakfast, fish tacos at lunch and hearty soups at dinner. In the past …
Piment d’ Espelette: The AOC-Protected Chile Pepper
By Dave DeWitt Recipe Index: Chicken Basquaise with Espelette Piperade Sliced Veal with Espelette Peppers Axoa Lamb with Espelette Pepper <Photo by Harald Zoschke Some varieties of chile peppers are given treasured status in certain regions of the world, where they are celebrated in art, legend, the kitchen, and festivals. Paprika has such status in Hungary, the jalapeño in Laredo, …
The Question of Origin-Controlled Chiles
by Dave DeWitt, Associate Professor (Adjunct Faculty), Department ofAgricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, New Mexico State University In July, 2004, Mexico’s National Council of Chile Producers decided to pursue the origin-control of Mexican chile varieties in order to fight competition from other countries. “We are going to work on getting designation of origin for our chiles because there are …
St. Augustine: A Date with Datil Peppers
By Suzanne Hall; Photos by Suzanne Hall except where indicated Recipes: Gator Sauce Sausage Pilau Byron’s Barbecue Beans Datiled Eggs Hellish Tacos Paul’s Devilish Roasted Chicken St. Augustine has a hot little secret–the Datil pepper. No one there talks much about the peppers. But if you get a chance to peek into the backyards of some of the city’s …