by Dave DeWitt and W.C. Longacre A Spicy Pair of Soupiers at Play: Excerpt from Great Bowls of Fire! Lemon Grass-Gingered Chicken Wonton Soup Won Ton Soup Broth Double Chile Vegetable Stew Creamy Green Chile and Bay Shrimp Chowder W.C.’s Green Chile Sauce Newspaper Soup UB Alarmed Five-Chile Chili Wild Mushroom Bisque with Grilled Chicken Soups are the elegant …
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 …
A User’s Guide to Spicy Peanut Butter
By William I. Lengeman III Recipes: Rib Eye Steaks with Spicy Peanut Better and OnionsSweet and Spicy Peanut Butter Glazed ChickenVegetarian Masaman CurrySpicy Peanut Better CroutonsGado GadoIndonesian Peanut-Chile SauceSpicy Roast Beef Sandwich Okay, so peanut butter isn’t the first thing that springs to mind when you think of spicy food. But several companies have released products in recent years …
The Native Southwest: Wild Ones
Story and Photos by Dave DeWitt When the first Spanish explorers ventured north from Mexico City in the sixteenth century and wandered into what is now the Southwest, they discovered that the indigenous Native Americans made excellent use of nearly every edible animal and plant substance imaginable. For protein, the Native Americans hunted and trapped deer, rabbits, quail, pronghorn, bison, …