if u had A clue

Talk about what you want its crab season,

chuggin' along

Once I get on the pasta train its hard for me to get off. I like pasta! "But you like everything" people might say and that would be true but I definitely like pasta. When I am not eating way too much chile I am probably eating too much pasta, thats just the way it is. In fact I am going to make some chile pasta and see how that comes out - hopefully a perfect fusion.



This is the beginning of spinach and cheese stuffed mushroom ravioli.



Mushroom pasta, spinach and cheese ravioli with a light ragu.



Same ragu with spinach fettuccini.



The Pup enjoying the 'green' noodles that he asks for all the time.

everyone is a winner

This is my idea of a contest. You send me an e mail or a comment and later follow up with a mailing address (make it your local corner store if you are worried I might show up in Quebec or whatever) and in this correspondence you tell me how you like chile and I will send you a blend made especially for you and your recipe. These recipes can be varied. You can say, for instance, " I only like chile if my mom made it" and that would be okay, except then I am going to need some background on your mom so I can feebly try and recreate her gem. Side note - Buffalodickdy is excluded from this since he is a chile champ and I am going to send him some anyway. There are many ways to eat this stuff - I had a sicilian friend that made his 'gravy' spicy, I know this dessert person that likes to add it to chocolate, I have this one friend that puts it on everything but that is just a little too much and I tell her to tone it down. There is a chile world out there and this is its exploration. I am trying to get over my chile eliteisms and embrace the worlds grasp of the caspicsum. If you dont have a chile recipe that is okay too simply tell me how spicy or not so spicy you like things as well as if you are or are not vegetarian and that will work too. (hate to send a chicken thing to a non chicken eater). Humor me with this and you might be surprised. Come on now Beth and Bina, and Claudia and Spin even TanyaK ( she hates everything). Lets see what happens. If you dont like chile but you want to 'win' anyway thats fine too just submit something.

cinco de mayo

Wierd independence this one - it is the revolution that happened in Puebla against the French, I dont know what was won and what was lost but it is cause for celebration. 4000 Mexicans beat 8000 French in 1862. A completely regional battle. Why should I type it all in when you can read about it here.



So in honor of this battle I had a tortilla burger. Thats right a big pattie of hot cooked beef, lettuce, tomato, roasted garlic, green chile, cheese, mustard and mayo wrapped in a hot fresh tortilla.



Cinco de Mayo, I got your Cinco de Mayo right here.

jokes

Two Dogs

Two lovely female foreign immigrants, newly arrived in the United States, noticed people lining up to buy food from a cart.

"I've heard that people here eat dogs," said one of the women.

"Really?" said her friend, "But we're in America, so we should do as Americans do."

They headed for the cart.

"Two dogs, please," she said.

The vendor handed her two hot dogs wrapped in foil.

The young women excitedly headed for a bench and unwrapped their meal.

The first to open the foil blushed and whispered to her friend, "What part did you get?"