This year I loaded up the fridge with a 6-pack of Moosehead. I also loaded up the cd changer with "Nude on the Moon: A B-52s Anthology" (2-cd set), Cake's "Fashion Nugget," and Beck's "Odelay." Kitty was in charge of the peeling while I did the cutting, weighing, and bagging. We used the ice-water method like last year where we plunged the still-hot chile into an ice-water bath which caused the roasted skin to just fall right off. We chatted, I drank, we grooved to tunes, we laughed about our tingling fingers, and generally had a great day. By the time we finished some 4 hours after starting, we ended up with 58 5-oz bags, or 290 oz, or roughly 18 pounds of fresh New Mexico green chile, ready to be made into soups, stews, casseroles, or just plopped onto a cheeseburger. It's one of those lovely local rites of passage that makes us feel like part of the local culture. That and it's just so damn tasty!
Labor of Love
This year I loaded up the fridge with a 6-pack of Moosehead. I also loaded up the cd changer with "Nude on the Moon: A B-52s Anthology" (2-cd set), Cake's "Fashion Nugget," and Beck's "Odelay." Kitty was in charge of the peeling while I did the cutting, weighing, and bagging. We used the ice-water method like last year where we plunged the still-hot chile into an ice-water bath which caused the roasted skin to just fall right off. We chatted, I drank, we grooved to tunes, we laughed about our tingling fingers, and generally had a great day. By the time we finished some 4 hours after starting, we ended up with 58 5-oz bags, or 290 oz, or roughly 18 pounds of fresh New Mexico green chile, ready to be made into soups, stews, casseroles, or just plopped onto a cheeseburger. It's one of those lovely local rites of passage that makes us feel like part of the local culture. That and it's just so damn tasty!
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The Swingles
When our season tickets for the 2019-2020 theater season arrived a few months ago, I saw that we had purchased tickets for The Swingles. At first I…
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"Waitress"
We had another date night last night. We were supposed to see the musical "Waitress" on Saturday, but Kitty is singing in a concert that night, so we…
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Blue Men Again
Last night Kitty and I went to see the Blue Man Group for the 3rd time in 13 years. How she found it, I don't know, but Kitty found the LJ post from…