Okay, this should be the final installment of my Chili saga, for a while, but it’s an important one. This is your basic, all-purpose* chili powder. No fancy caraway, no dedicated mole to match with it. Just pure chili powder.
Ingredients
6 oz. Dried Chiles, seeded and cut lengthwise into 1-inch wide strips
2.5 oz. Cumin Seeds, whole
.25 [...]
Round 13 of TGRWT is Chocolate and Caraway. For various reasons, including the fact that I had recently made Chili, I thought that a Caraway Cocoa Chili would be an interesting.
Every step of the dish was on the precipice of disaster. I thought that there was way too much caraway, so I compensated with [...]
I was watching the most recent episode of Good Eats, the one on knives and related applications. He mentioned that a 5:1 concentration of water to bleach was the ideal solution for ridding hands of unwanted chile oils. Long time readers may recall my misadventures with chile oils, and my subsequent crying like a little [...]
I was making some Pepper Jelly (a.k.a. Fire Jam a.k.a. Sweet, Sweet Napalm) this weekend, which is a sweet jam with bits of chiles thrown in for flavor and heat. Super tasty, and good fun to make. This time, instead of using the food processor for chopping, I figured it would be a good [...]
I’ve mentioned before that the spicy/sweet connection is getting stronger in Popular Culture. It’s not quite there yet, but one of my local coffee houses has a Maya Mocha which, so you know, thoroughly sucks. Mind you, that’s more because of their poor coffee than the concept of the mocha, but I can think of [...]
2006 Seems to be the year of consumer control. First there was a soda that allow you to choose the flavor by pushing in some dots on the side of the bottle to release flavor syrups, and Dave’s Gourmet, Inc. has made a hot sauce with a dial to change from spicy to fiery at [...]
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