Few food ingredients are as versatile as chiles and few dishes are as versatile as chiles rellenos.
Mythbusting the Hatch Pepper
According to Dave DeWitt, there is no horticultural variety of chile pepper known as “Hatch chile pepper.”
Making Chile Powders
Although whole pods keep best because they best retain color and flavor, another way to store peppers is to grind them into powders.
Chipotle Pepper 101
Generally speaking, chipotle in English refers to any smoked chile pepper.
How to Freeze Chiles
Just throw the chiles in the freezer, right? Wrong. There are different requirements for freezing chiles, depending on the size of the pepper.
Meet the Serrano Pepper
A very well-known and wise hot sauce maker once told me he prefers serranos over jalapenos because they’re more consistent in their level of heat.
The Hot Sauce with a Ph.D.
During the early morning hours this summer and early fall, when some college presidents were just waking up or maybe checking their first emails of a busy day, Dr. Ali Houshmand was picking his peppers…