Sentences with phrase «mexican ristras»
Traditional New Mexican ristras are made by tying New Mexico red chiles together in clusters of three, with cotton string (this works with various other chiles as well).
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The most common use of the red New Mexican chiles is to hang them in long strings, or ristras, until they are ready to be used in cooking.
You're not in New Mexico here: One booth is selling all kinds of ristras, including New Mexican chiles and Mexican Cascabel chiles.
The mini-ristra chiles are popular as tourist items because they are easier to transport than traditional New Mexican - type ristras.
To make a ristra, a supply of freshly picked, red (or just turning red) New Mexican chile pods is necessary; three - fourths of a bushel of chile will make a ristra about three feet long.
But Fabian Garcia's greatest legacy remains the chile pods that every year encapsulate the New Mexico summer sun, the peppers whose roasting aromas are as quintessentially New Mexican each autumn as leaves are to New England, whose ripened redness adorns our doorways this time of year in festive ristras.