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Chipotle dos

In the bag
Originally uploaded by fishpickdiver

I told you how to make you own chipotles – but I never shared what they should look like. Attached is an image of well dried and very happy chipotles.

When you are ready to use – simply cut them open – remove most of the seeds (that’s where the REAL [...]

9 years!

9 yearsOriginally uploaded by fishpickdiver

On October 16th – Kelli and I rolled over the calendar – starting on our 10th year together.As she said – it still feels like we are playing [...]

Buckwheat says "Ohh Tay!"

Different kind of buckwheat… Not the guy from Little Rascals. This kind of buckwheat is what’s growing in the plot that will become the garden next year. It’s part of the composting process – or generation of “green manure”.Very early in the season I plowed under this section of field at the edge [...]

Aye – Chipotle!

Yes indeed – the mighty chipotle… really a lowly jalapeño raised to an exceptional level of goodness by a slow smoking process that concentrates the flavorful (read hot) oils of the pepper and changes them somewhat as the complex aromatic molecules of the smoke interact at a temperature around 225F.

It sounds more complicated than it [...]