Easy, healthy recipes with a southwestern flare
Blooming onions are normally all about the fried crispy batter and the dipping sauces. This baked blooming onion is all about the onion and the chile. The following recipe turns a normal sweet onion into a sweet and spicy blooming onion.
A honey sweetened compound butter for biscuits, cinnamon toast, yeast bread, cornbread, flour tortillas or whatever your heart desires. Change up the honey, change up the flavor.
An really easy pepper sauce made with really HOT, tasty chile peppers, olive brine from a jar of green olives, and white vinegar. Use in soups, salads, on tacos and sandwiches, greens and rice.
This beautiful fennel salad is made with red chile spiced roasted fennel and a drizzle of cranberry balsamic, topped with feta cheese, pomegranate seeds and daikon sprouts. It is an enticing mix of hot and cold, sweet and tart, crunchy and soft.
Red Chile Cheese Tamales are a mix of spicy red chiles, onion, garlic, and cheese which yields a savory, sweet and spicy flavor, and makes a truly killer tamale.
Pie Town, New Mexico, is a tiny town in the middle of nowhere New Mexico. Pie Town is on Hwy 60, west of Socorro, NM and north of the Gila National Forest. It’s one of those towns that if you end up there, then that’s because you were headed there. And why would one go there? For the PIE!!! It has two restaurants that make every type of pie imaginable and they are all so good.
What do you do when you find yourself with over two pounds of New Mexico red chile powder and a pound of green chile powder? You make a Red Chile Spice Blend and a Green Chile Spice Blend.
Learn about different types of cheese and cheese pairings from a real cheesemonger. Just like a sommelier helps you pair a wine with your meal, a cheesemonger helps pair cheese with spirits and cheese with foods.
Personally, I find a grilled cheese sandwich with ONLY cheese to be rather boring. However, add some roasted urfa biber chile or any roasted red chile along with toasted pinon nuts for a delightful bite.
Summer means grilling season and this is a grilled meal I never get tired of eating – the Quintessential Green Chile Cheeseburger, the best burger you’ll ever eat.
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