Southwesting
1) Chile pistachios, which are deliciously salty and quite hot. You're supposed to eat all the chile coating off of the shell prior to cracking it open for the pistachio nut. Addictive stuff!
2) A bag of NM Hatch chile powder, ready to be made into some famous NM red chile sauce!
3) Chile gingersnaps from Maria Rosa's (505-203-4522), yummy snappy cookies with a slight hint of chile. I love gingersnaps and the chile is a great addition!
I found out from Hank that Frybread Mama in Olde Towne Albuquerque actually had a fire and burned to the ground a while back! A new restaurant has since opened in its original location. I'm glad i got a chance to eat there but neverfear - good frybread is easy to get in the SW. One memorable frybread meal was at a tiny roadstand off the highway, in front of Chee's Navajo-owned Gift Shop en route to/from the Grand Canyon. That was the best ever.
In Albuquerque be immensely enjoyed a vegetarian Southern meal at La Siringitu. He claimed it was the best BBQ tofu and greens ever. Even more, he absolutely loved this poached egg brunch dish from the Gold Street Cafe. A few nights ago he replicated the dish (with a not-so pretty poached egg), which contained sauteed spinach, fresh tomato chunks, chevre (creamy goat cheese) and toasted bread. The original dish used a green chile brioche but we substituted some Italian bread from Parisi. There seems to be a lot of great places to eat at in Albuquerque!
(If be had his archives up, i'd absolutely end this post with a link to "Satan's Proctologist.")
posted by beXn @ 1:56 AM
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