New Mexico Foods (Clovis, Portales, Chimayo: home, live, price)

[clairz]

I've been doing a little series about New Mexican foods and recipes on my blog. If you'd like to take a look, see The Zees Go West. You can see a list of food posts on the left side of the home page (scroll down a bit).

Here are the ones I've done so far:
Blue Corn Meal
Green Chile
Harvest Time in Clovis
Honey Spreads
Peanuts
Pinto Beans
The Search for Local Honey (thanks to many suggestions from the CD Forum)

I have plans for posts on pecans and piñon nuts. If you have any suggestions for other foods I might include, please let me know. As always, thank you all for your input!

~clairz

[mike0421]

Menudo. The food that supposedly is a cure for hangovers.

[Devin Bent]

Peanuts? Don't see many of them around here. What part of NM features peanuts?

Suggestion?

Red Chile -- around here Chimayo is famous for these. If you have both red and green it is called Christmas.

Posole -- you eat them with the menudo and try not to think about what the menudo is.

[clairz]

Originally Posted by Devin Bent

Peanuts? Don't see many of them around here. What part of NM features peanuts?

Suggestion?

Red Chile -- around here Chimayo is famous for these. If you have both red and green it is called Christmas.

Posole -- you eat them with the menudo and try not to think about what the menudo is.

Thanks for the posole and red chile suggestions. I am working up the courage to try a nice hot bowl of menudo for breakfast some Saturday morning, and I'm sure the posole would help take my mind off the tripe.

As for peanuts, you have to realize that we live way over here on the eastern high plains of New Mexico, otherwise known as Little Texas, where things are a little different from the rest of NM. We have lots of peanuts being grown out between Clovis and Portales. It was a surprise to me--not what I was picturing for New Mexico at all.

~clairz

[Devin Bent]

Originally Posted by clairz

As for peanuts, you have to realize that we live way over here on the eastern high plains of New Mexico, otherwise known as Little Texas, where things are a little different from the rest of NM. We have lots of peanuts being grown out between Clovis and Portales. It was a surprise to me--not what I was picturing for New Mexico at all.

~clairz

Live and learn. When I was in Vermont, I was surprised by Vermont peanuts -- which are peanuts coated with maple sugar. (Of course, the peanuts are grown in points south and most of the maple syrup comes from Montreal -- the price we pay for global warming and acid rain.)

I drive through your part of the state sometimes -- I'll keep my eyes open for New Mexico peanuts.

[Michelle1210]

Menudo and posole are two differnt dishes.

[Michelle1210]

moles and sopapillas, Tamales

[Chaparral]

Carne adovada, sopaipillas, and biscochitos. Great... now I'm hungry.

Chap

[Michelle1210]

tortillas and empanadas..... I have a 1904 New Mexico cookbook will take a look, it is in spanish There is also several handwritten recepies in too, by my aunts and great grandmother, give me time to translate too

[ibarrio]

All of the above plus

Pinon nut
Enchiladas
Tortillas (homemade)
Tostadas Compuestas