I’m liveblogging my dinner. No, I haven’t gone bat-shit retarded. I just want everyone to eat good food, and I find this method more entertaining than typing up a recipe.
Let the cooking commence.
5:04 pm – prep work (my soundtrack choice is Daft Punk “Alive 2007″)
Ingredient list:
one onion (diced)
several cloves of garlic (diced – I used four or five)
kosher salt
one pound of red potatoes (also diced)
lots of roasted and diced green chile (amount dependent on availability, heat tolerance, and size of testicles)
meat substitute (or chicken if you eat meat. You can opt out of this too, but it really isn’t the same without something protein-y. I like the Quorn chik’n tenders.)
36 ounces of vegetable broth
cilantro
Some vegetable oil
5:27 pm
Threw in diced onion and garlic oil into vegetable oil. It got transulcent while I got down to Daft Punk. And goddamn that onion kicked my ass.
5:45 pm
Added potatoes, vegetable broth, salt and brought whole damn thing to a boil. Then bring down to a simmer and put a cover on it. Commence dancing.
6:20 pm
Add green chile, fake chicken (or cooked chicken, if that’s your bag), and diced red pepper. Also changed soundtrack to Jay-Z “American Gangster.” No dancing this time. Please take a moment to smell your hands. This is what New Mexico smells like late August through late September. If you are bored you can touch your lips. Isn’t that spicy tingle fun?
6:45 pm
Added some cilantro. Also, you might want to keep some dairy (cheese, sour cream, etc) around, in case your face starts to melt from the green chile. I promise I won’t make fun of you. To your face, anyway. Also: drinking some red wine and changed music to Jose Gonzalez’s “In Our Nature.” Jay-Z wasn’t doing it for me.
7:00 pm
Wine poured. Jose serenading me. Time to eat. I threw cheese on it because HOLY CRAP THIS IS GONNA BE HOT. Or hawt. Whichever.
7 Comments
OMG, best stew evar. And leftovers even! You’re the bestest!
I loooove this! Fantastic! Is it going to be a regular feature????
Dylan: Thanks for tolerating my green chile overload and waiting patiently while I had to keep stopping to blog the cooking.
Ro: I’m not sure. It was pretty labor intensive to write things up as I was doing them, and upload photos to flickr. Since my cooking repertoire is limited at best, most likely not.
Green chile from your trip(s) down here, or via Tracy’s parents? Lucky girl!
We had some wicked hot red chile meatballs (a Gabaldon tradition) on Christmas Eve… They made my eyes water, and I started to wonder if the baby was going to give me a hard time about my red-chile-laced milk. Luckily, she gulped happily like normal! Looks like we have another New Mexican!
i wanna have a cooking party! you should msg me the next time you are cooking and need eaters/financial contributors/help cooking/etc. or come to our house
Lesley: Green chile from Tracy’s mom. It’s from over a year ago, slowly getting hotter in my freezer. I need a refill of green chile now.
Kim: Cooking party, for sure. Let’s make a plan for sometime soon. Your house will fit us better than my puny ass kitchen.
***WARNING*** After smelling said hands to get a whiff of New Mexico…. do NOT, repeat do NOT touch your eyes, ears, ehm.. or any OTHER porous area of your body.. needless to say if you thought the onions brought tears to your eyes you aint seen nothing yet!
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