The Scent of Green Chiles.....

Friends and acquaintances who have either lived in New Mexico or visited a few times, wherever they may live now, in the fall think they begin to smell roasting chiles, possibly even from as far away as Chillicothe, Ohio.  And then they phone me and I buy bushels of chiles at my local farm stand. ( A Shawnee word that has nothing remotely to do with "chiles," Chillicothe was a nice little place back in the day when a college friend lived on a farm there. )

I am the woman in line at the post office juggling the boxes filled with little holes punched in the sides, as if I were airmailing live iguanas somewhere. ( To Ohio, for example.)

Once upon a time I  bought the chiles roasted, put them in plastic baggies, and then a styrofoam box, with dry ice, and then worried for 2 days until they arrived in San Francisco---the recipients were not at home...........the contents became most unpleasant and oozing. Never again!

Until now--those same chile heads in CA now want me to try again to send them roasted chiles. Hmmm.

To save friendships, I am suggesting two companies based here in NM to all who are lured by the call of the roasting chiles: New Mexican Connection and New Mexico Chili ( though they spell chili the non-New Mexican way. )

( Thanks to http://www.nmcchile.com/ for chile pic.)

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[chefjp]

I've used New Mexican Connection before---excellent quality. Yahoo! chefjp