Sentences with phrase «red ristras»

There are red ristras on the wall, the smell of roasting chiles in the air, the traditional melody of «I Shot the Sheriff» by Bob Marley blasting from...

Toward the end of September the new, bright red ristras can be seen hanging from balconies and porches, and red chile pods are spread on roof tops to dry.

Not exact matches

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.

Five minutes later, Maria brings us that Calabrian specialty, and explains: This is called peperoncini friti, and to fix it, they pick a handful of dried mild red peppers from a string (called fila here, like a ristra in New Mexico).

(Anaheim is actually a variety of New Mexico chile, as are Sandia, Big Jim, etc.) These same green chiles are the immature stage of the New Mexico red chiles, which are used to make chile ristras, and when dried, are ground into red chile powder.

Red varieties can be strung together and dried to make ristras.

Early chile decorations served culinary purposes — they were the ristras and wreaths made of dried red chiles that could be plucked when necessary for the Posole, another tradition Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve meals.

Houses are adorned with strings of dried red chiles, called ristras.

Red chile, which is pungent, is left whole to be made into decorative ristras or sold in bags, is crushed into flakes, or is ground into powder.

To make a 36 ″ ristra will require around 15 pounds of fresh red pods.

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).

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.

With Pueblo - style architecture, courtyards behind adobe walls, and colorful ristras (red strings of chile) hanging outside, the buildings blend into the surrounding residential neighborhood.