Easy, healthy recipes with a southwestern flare
Posole’ is a traditional New Mexico dish during the holiday and one of our traditional dishes for Christmas Eve. Our Christmas Eve version is made with pork and red chile. But this year I jumped the gun a bit and threw together this Green Chile Chicken Posole’.
Love the combination of black beans and sweet potatoes. Create a complete meal by scooping some black bean chile over sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes could be roasted, mashed, or baked. They all work.
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.
Roasted Vegetables with Mexican Chorizo is a potpourri of root vegetables roasted with onion, peppers and Mexican Chorizo. It is a relatively easy dish to make but does require a lot of chopping, something that I enjoy doing.
This Brown Rice Salad with Lime Vinaigrette is crunchy, nutty, tangy, sweet and spicy. It includes a mix of colorful peppers – sweet red and yellow bells and spicy roasted green chile.
What makes this Pumpkin Soup with Apples and Andouille so special? A generous amount of crushed sage. Use fresh or dried but don’t hold back. This soup is autumn in a bowl.
Apple Buttermilk Pancakes with Pecans so moist and can be sweet or a little tart depending on the type of apples used. The toasted pecans add a bit of a crunch and flavor that complements the apples quite well. Top the pancakes with warm maple syrup for a delicious weekend brunch.
This Green Chile Tomatillo Sauce is a variation of my green chile sauce. It uses roasted green chile and roasted tomatillos. It’s a great sauce to make when you need to tame the heat of some really hot chiles or make a milder sauce for people that can’t handle the heat.
This Yellow Squash with Red Peppers is one of the easiest sides you’ll ever make. This dish is just yellow squash sauteed in garlic oil with some onion and red peppers.
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