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1. What is your name or what may we call you? Carol

 

2. How long have you been a vegetarian, or how long have you been

interested in vegetarian cookery? I have been interested in becoming vegetarian

for about 3 months now.

 

3. What country are you in now? USA

 

4. What city, town or region?San Diego

 

5. What age are you (just roughly, very roughly!)? 36

 

6. Why did you join this group (apart from receiving an invitation!

*lol*)? I am interested in learning more about vegetarian way of life.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Kelly!

Yes, the chiles here start out green, then we get the monsoon season, then

they start turning red. Once they're picked (red) they need to be dried. So if

you can put them in the sun to dry, that would be best.

In the salsa, the tomato-based one, I usually use green anaheims and

jalapenos or banana peppers.

The dried red ones are better in soups and stews. Here we make posole using

them, which is a hominy and pork stew, and hard to convert to vegetarian. Best

I can do with it is using turkey, so haven't converted that recipe yet! But

I've added them to black bean soup, 2 or 3 pods, depending on how hot they

are.

You can tell how hot a chile is by how many veins it has inside. 1 or 2

veins is mild, 3 is hot, and 4 or more is EXTRA hot!!

Another dish here that uses them is red chile sauce, and they can be either

whole or ground to make this dish. I'll put together the recipe (I do have it

converted to vegetarian!) and will post it in a day or two.

To rehydrate red chiles, soak them in hot water, then you can use that water

in your soup or stew also. A recipe using this is polenta - rehydrate the

chiles, cut into strips, and place several strips (one for each slice) on top of

the polenta before baking.

They make very colorful dishes for the holiday season!

Glad you're familiar with our chiles. People come here from all over this

time of year to get them fresh.

Are you visiting for the upcoming Balloon Fiesta? It starts in about 2

weeks. Let me know, maybe we can run into each other!

Take care,

Aurora