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Chrome Rims on a Ford Fiesta: A Texas Chili Recipe

Piehole Willie /
October 31, 2020 /
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I made chili last night with some ingredients that kinda made me feel like I’d put $1000 chrome rims on a Ford Fiesta. I made a pot of Texas-style chili with one single über-rare fresh chilhuacle negro chile. And I don’t regret it, not even a little. Here’s what happened.

Chilhuacle Negro and Chiles Bolita for a pot of chili
Chilhuacle Negro and Chiles Bolita for a pot of “Chrome Rims on a Ford Fiesta” Texas-style chili.

As I’ve posted before, I can’t source in the U.S. a lot of the Oaxacan chiles that I love to cook with, so I grow them in my backyard. This year I got a fantastic late season harvest of chilhuacle rojo and chilehuacle negro that I’ll use to make molé, a sizable haul of chile bolita, and a bunch of chile de agua. All of these varietals I first discovered in the markets down in Oaxaca, Mexico. read more

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