Index of Chile Knights Column Archives

1. NORTHENER BITEN BY CHILE Chile Knights columnist Sunny Conley recollects her first chile bite - a memorable, and briefly embarrassing, nose dripping affair.

• How my addiction began
• The heat scale
• Chile paraphernalia
• Salsa’s number one condiment

2. BITS AND PIECES OF CHILE LORE Sunny shares chile ventures, everything from the dentist’s chair to a nuked spaghetti squash.

• Anything but salsa
• Ahh, the pain of it all
• Bishop fancies salsa
• Youngsters advance to fiery finals

3. CHILE HOT FLASHES Thinking Sunny’s chile induced sweaty brows and red face are a symptom of a hot flash, a chile cheechako offers consolation.

• It’s not what you think ma’am
• Sage Advice
• Rojo (red) Por Favor
• Authentic Red Chile Sauce
• A chile complement

4. ALLERGY PROBLEMS?  EAT CHILE

• How chile helps relieve allergy symptoms is explained.
• Kiss allergy symptoms goodbye
• Chile pain killers
• Crockpot Firecracker Stew

5. INTERNET CHILEHEAD OFFERS RECIPES Sunny and Judy Howle meet in cyberspace and later team up to create an unforgettable chile-chocolate treat.

• Judy shares her chile adventures and addiction
• Habanero sauced brownies
• Chile Puree

6. MONKS BLESS SUNNY AND THAI HOT CAFE It’s a tradition in Thailand to have a new business blessed. Sunny explains the ritual and describes the Thai Hot dishes served at the Lemon Grass.

• The five precepts explained
• Chile inflamed tongue remedies

7. CHILE IS A HOT COMMODITY Two chilehead entrepreneurs and friends begin a multi-level marketing program that’s heatin’ up New Mexico.

8. A CHILE PRIMER FOR VISITORS Famous chileheads, chile terms, and chile tidbits are defined for chile cheechakos.

9. ARE SPICES REALLY ANTIBIOTICS? Two scientists explain the real reason we use spices, including the celebrated chile.

10. CHILE BOOK RECEIVES HOT REVIEW Carmella Padilla, an award-winning Santa Fe based author, spent three years chronicling the lives of 12 New Mexico chile farmers. The Chile Chronicles is filled with colorful New Mexico-style chile tales, and vivid photographs captured by Jack Parsons.

11. BOSQUE CHEF SERVES UP OLD WORLD AZTEC STEW, CHILE RELLENOS & OLD WORLD SALSA Chef Nancy Daniel, a naturalist, vegetarian and Bosque Del Apache volunteer, recently served Southern New Mexico Adventure Club members Aztec stew, a
steaming hot Old World chile potpourri. Nancy also shares her Old World salsa and chile relleno recipes.

• Adventure Club Chile Surprise
• Old World Aztec Stew
• Old World Salsa
• Chile Rellenos

12."DUMP AND GO" CHILE-INSPIRED PRODUCTS Dehydrated chile products is hot stuff locally and worldwide.

• For a Quick 'n Easy Chile Fix Dial 1-800-367-5454
• Chile Postage Stamps
• Ground Chile vs Powdered Chili

13. GARDEN OFFERS REMEDIES Sunny's search for epazote, a Mexican herb, leads her to a medicinal herbalist's enchanting kitchen garden.

• In search of epazote
• Fret-Free Black Beans
• Epazote Tea

14. GOURMET BURRITO FEATURES ASPARAGUS Sunny explores the history of the asparagus plant and then shares a healthful, refreshing asparagus-chile recipe that perhaps even carnivores can't resist.

• The Ancient Asparagus Plant
• Cooking Asparagus
• Espárragos Melody with Pine Nut Sprinkles

15. Peppers from Mexico gives TABASCO(tm) sauce its robust punch. Few people know that the famous Tabasco brand sauce got its start during the 19th century on an island.

• The gift of a pepper
• About tabasco peppers
• Tabasco hot sauce tidbits
• Storing hot sauces
• Hotshot sauce recipe

16. A Cookbook for All Seasons Sunny receives a Spanish lesson from a next door neighbor.

• Seasoned with Sun cookbook introduces Sunny to border food.
• Chipolte: Just how the heck is it pronounced?
• Chipolte Chatter
• Salpicon: A stunning, crowd-pleasing Mexican dish
• Salpicon recipe

17. HIGH ON HABS A grocery cashier gives Sunny a lesson on habaneros and then shares a magnetic recipe for chileheads only.

• The habanero chile is chileheads' Pod of Choice
• "Burnology"
• Guinness Book of World Records
• Cashier Ruth
• Mango-Habanero Salsa Recipe
• Ruth's Check-Out Salsa Recipe

18. Robert Murphy's ranch-hand meals-in-a-package delight customers A caterin' cookin' cowpoke dishes up savory Dutch Oven meals, many of which are heated with choice chile pods.

• Murphy draws crowds at the Downtown Mall
• The evolution of a cowboy cook
• Murphy's Enterprises, Inc.- Call (505) 526-4219 for dehydrated foods-to-go

19. THE ODD-LOOKING TOMATILLO ADDS AN UNUSUAL ZING TO SALSA AND SAUCES
Celebrate Memorial Day with a Picnic on the Patio. Sunny recommends Hotluck Chile-Chicken Enchiladas. The dish is prepared with tomatillos, a tangy Mexican green tomato.

• The drought tolerant tomatillo plant
• Tomatillo Tips
• Chile Tomate Verde Salsa Recipe
• Hotluck Chile-Chicken Enchiladas with Tomatillo Sauce Recipe

20. CHILE HEATS THE TUNDRA Sunny reviews the book Tacos on the Tundra. Written by Lyn Kidder of Ruidoso, NM, the book profiles Barrow, Alaska resident Fran Tate, a "tough cookie" who fled New York to search for a new life at the top of the world. Tate's Mexican eatery, Pepe's North of the Border, draws 8,000 visitors annually.

• Fran Tate profiled
• Tacos on the Tundra
• Why Lyn Kidder penned the book
• Chicken Tacos, a recipe

21. CHILE FARE NOW ON TAP AT BREWERY High Desert Brewery Co. recognized as one of the finest brewpubs in New Mexico, serves chile-empowered entrees.

• The saga of two "mad" scientists
• High Desert Brewery Co. celebrates first anniversary
• Three-cheese Tequila chile poppers, fried jalapeno strips and other chile-empowered fare satisfy chilehead beer tippers.

22. OLE! MOLE! Sunny describes the history of mole, a rich and robust Aztec sauce prepared with zippy chile and luscious Mexican chocolate.  slathered with Classic Mole Poblano, the "National Dish of Mexico."

• Oaxaca, the Land of the Seven Moles
• The Seven Moles
• Defining metate
• Classic Mole Poblano Sauce Recipe
• Grilled Chicken with Mole Recipe

23. Father's Day Tribute Sunny pays tribute to her stepfather on Father's Day by preparing a chorizo burrito with a tequila buzz.

• The History of Father's Day
• Father's Day memories
• A tribute to stepfather
• Recipe: Chorizo burrito with a tequila buzz

24. MEXICAN EATS IN THE WINDY CITY Sunny is stumped by Chicago's Mexican eateries and Manhattan city officials give food vendors the boot.

• Sunny travels to the Big Apple
• Food editor samples Mexican eats in Chicago and then files report
• Manhattan food vendors protest
• Las Cruces restaurant serves authentic Mexican fare

25. Stay Cool with a Hotsicle Adding chile to ice cream seems the natural thing to do for New Mexicans.

• The history of ice cream
• Chile Hotsicles
• Las Cruces' newest chilehead, five-year-old Kevin Albers, relishes a Star Spangled Habanero Hotsicle.
• Star Spangled Hotsicle Recipe

26. SUNNY SHOWS OFF HER CHILE PARAPHERNALIA. Sunny holds a chile workshop for youngsters attending a summer reading program in Anthony, New Mexico.

• Books Come in All Flavors
• Chile Challenge
• Chile recipes

27. CHILE FARMING IS A FAMILY AFFAIR Morrow Farms located about 20 miles west of the Chile Capital of the World, Hatch, produces green chile, jalapenos, onions and pecans packaged under the Las Uvas Produce label. Chileheads from across the United States and Canada are already placing orders for the season's first juicy harvest.

• The aroma of chiles is in the air
• Sunny visits Morrow Farms
• "Uvas" defined
• Place your chile order now:  1-800-204-6623
• Recipes: Green Chile Dip, Sour Cream Enchiladas
• Green Chile & Cheese Sandwiches

28. "SLOW FOOD" MAKES A COMEBACK"
Leo Nunez, owner of the Albuquerque-based El Norteno Restaurant believes that          Americans should take time from their busy schedules to appreciate "ma and pa dining" rather than the gobble-gulp-and-go fare offered at Fast Food stations. Chef Nunez isn't alone. Members of the burgeoning Slow Food Movement are actively campaigning for the return of pleasure dining - enjoying carefully prepared, home-style food in a relaxed atmosphere.

• Slow down, you move to fast..."
• Changing eating habits
• The Slow Food Movement
• Recipes: Guisado Norteno & Tomatillo Salsa

29. Taking Care of Chile Business Sunny's got the chile blues. Find out why.

• Chile Blues Report
• Facts about New Mexico Chile
• Know your Scovilles
• Roasting Chile the Old-fashioned Way

30. Chile Hot News from 'Round the World Sunny highlights upcoming chile events, chile happenings and chile tidbits.

• Hot Bites
• "Former MASH star and "Mr. Chile," NMSU Professor Paul Bosland plan September meeting.
• Chile Wires.
• Chile Games.
• Hot crafts.
• Chile and Health and more...
• Jumpin' Recipes:  Hot Habs 'n Honey, Peachy Preserves, & Peach Salsa

31. CHILE PLANT PUMPS NEW LIFE INTO RINCON Sunny tours a Rincon, NM chile processing plant and files this report.

• Rio Valley Chile Inc.
• How the heck is "chile" really spelled? It remains a heated debate among "chileheads" or is it "chiliheads?"
• Spicy site.
• The search for a tacos al carbon recipe.

32. MEET "MR. CHILE"  NMSU Agriculture and Agronomy Professor Paul Bosland, also known as "Mr. Chile, " takes Sunny on a tour of the fiery Pepper Patch, where exotic pods - everything from bananas to pinatas - are grown.

33. CHILES ABOUND AT MESILLA SHOP  An Old Mesilla restaurant opens a chile shop, the perfect fix for chilehead tourists.

• La Posta restaurant features New Mexico products.
• Join the International Connoisseurs of Red and Green
• A Pod-Pourri of upcoming columns

34. FAMILY FEUD BATTLE CONTINUES  Elisa Romero and her new son-in-law, "Pete" Lucero, competed in the Wine and Chile War Memorial Day Weekend. "Mom" snatched first place but Pete claims, "The judges were wrong. Mine's best."

• How the feud began
• The wait
• The judges decision
• Sunny's decision
• The battle continues
• Salsa recipes, well the ingredients anyhow...

35. CHILE MANIACS FLOCK TO HATCH FOR CHILE FESTIVAL Sunny files a complete report on her Hatch Labor Day Weekend venture.

• The history of Rio Grande Valley chile
• The Chile Capital of the World
• Chile Pod Winners
• Order the Hatch chile cookbook: Award winning recipes

Chile Rellenos Sandia recipe


36. IT'S TIME TO SAMPLE THE WHOLE ENCHILADA!  Each year Las Cruces, New Mexico hosts the 4th largest tourist event - the Whole Enchilada Festival. Read about the tasty details here.

• Feeding 70,000 people is not any easy task
• Chef Roberto Estrada
• Recipe: Shameless Red Chile Sauce

37. SOUTHERN COOKING SIZZLES  The Mansion, situated on a full city block in Atlanta, was built in 1885. The High Victorian, Shingle Style home was once the residence of railroad builder Richard R. Peters. It now serves as an elegant restaurant where creative and unusual contemporary Southern cuisine gently flavored with chile is featured. Guests can enjoy a savory meal in one of the eleven unique dining nooks or in the courtyard lush with flora and budding flowers.

• The Civil War Years
• The history of Southern Cuisine
• Recipe: Spiked Georgia Peach Sauce
• Recipe: Southern Skillet Chile Cornbread recipe
   

38. Ghouls and Goblin await at La Hacienda Sunny travels to El Paso to dine with the ghost of Don Juan de Onate.

• Mexican restaurant features good eats, spooks and 3 Bell Margaritas
• Take home the chair on which you perch

39. A CHILE HOT HALLOWEEN Sunny makes plans to dress as a chilehead for a Halloween Party. She also shares a Hobglobin Pie Poem written by her mother and some hot Halloween recipes.

• A poem
• Sunny recalls childhood Halloweens
• Last year's Halloween party was soooo boring
• Halloween '98
• Recipes: Spicy Trick or Treat Pumpkin Seeds, Chile Pumpkin Nut Cookies, Guaillo chile puree

40. HOMEGROWN REMEDIES IS A NEW BOOK WITH A CHILE TWIST Sunny interviews Annette Sandoval, the author of Homegrown Healings: Traditional Home Remedies from Mexico.

• Home remedy saves the life of author's sister
• The healer hierarchy.
• Author plans trip to the jungles of Puerto Villarta and Yucatan to record home remedies.
• Cayenne remedies.

41. THE DAY OF THE DEAD IS CELEBRATED IN OLD MESILLA Sunny discovers the meaning behind Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). A new restaurant and grocery store sells chile-charged salsas and sauces.

• Shrines reveal the lifestyles of the departed
• International Delights
• Chipotle Search
• One Final Chile Note

42. IT WAS A SCENE FROM A STEVEN KING NOVEL A Sunday red chile bash whets Sunny’s appetite.

• Thick red liquid dripped everywhere - even the dog "blushed" from the stuff.
• The Red Chile SauceProcess
• Hot dogs with red chile sauce and jalapenos