Tradiciones!

[sabotlours]

I had to check the old LJ archive to see when we did our big annual chile purchase last year. We did it early last year; August 17. This year it was today. We bought a 30-lb bag of medium-hot and had it roasted. Kitty put on 80's classics on the tv radio station and we processed 58 5-oz bags in about 3 hours. So that's 290 oz of processed green chile from a starting point of 480 oz. Not bad! My fingers are still tingling. doG only knows what the "hot" would have been like. Of all the traditions of New Mexico that I have experienced over the past 17 years, the processing of chile has got to be one of my favorites. I'm looking forward to a year filled with green chile stew and green chile corn chowder. Since the garden is still producing tomatoes like mad, more fresh salsa is in the cards!

Comments

[allaboutweather.livejournal.com]

You keep trying to buy a South American country every year? XP

Yeah, I couldn't resist a geography joke. ;)

In all seriousness though, that's a lot of chile!

[nightwind292.livejournal.com]

Father used to wear gloves for the hot chilies.
They'd melt on the larger batches.

[sabotlours.livejournal.com]

We bought the "medium" and it still caused our fingers to go numb by the time we were finished. I can't imagine what the "hot" or "extra hot" would be like. As you mentioned...gloves are a must for processing those.

[nightwind292.livejournal.com]

the first time they melted it caught him by surprize, be aware.