Considering the prices of Le Creuset and other good quality enamel on cast iron cookware, figuring out what size dutch oven to buy is an important question. Purchasing a piece that is too large is going to cost you extra money and extra effort to use – these things are heavy. But getting one too > read more
Yesterday’s discussion about stockpots got me thinking about chili. Not the hatch green chile that we’ve talked about before, but good old American Texas red chili. Which was ironic, because I just finished the last pack of a chili mix that my brother bought me for my birthday last November called Carroll Shelby’s Original Texas > read more
We’re still enjoying our batch of Hatch green chiles, which don’t seem as hot this year as they usually are. Maybe it was the unusually dry season last year. But while I was trying to research why they were so mild, I found some interesting facts about chiles: One fresh medium-sized green chile pod has > read more