Last night at a little dinner party, William and I cracked open the last remaining bottles of our very first forays into homebrewing, from July and August of 2007. Batch #0001 was called “West Coast Pale Ale,” a HomeBrewMart starter recipe. At the time we noted the beer was very “safe,” that is to say [...]
I’ve just about recovered fully from a pequin chile. This little thing, barely the size of my pinky nail, packed a mighty wallop. It had a very nice bright, herbal and somewhat citrus-like flavor for about 3 seconds before the heat kicked in. And, probably owing to the minuscule size of the chile, it was [...]
Beautiful, beautiful chiles! Given to me by a friend of my dad’s, probably the best part about this particular Thanksgiving. And I only know the bookends: the far left chile is a pequin, a tiny sucker about 5 times spicier than a japaleño; the far right chile [...]
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