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Anybody had New Mexico green chile?

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I live in southern Colorado, but my family is from New Mexico. I also live in NM part-time. In a lot of southwest towns around here, you can always tell when fall is here because of the smell of roasting green chile. It's a very important ingredient to all our local food, but it's still available further away.

You definitely are doing things wrong if you've ever been to Santa Fe or Albuquerque and haven't at least tried a dish with green chile. Even most of the fast food restaurants offer it.

I just wanted to see how many of you have had it and what you had it in. :D
 





I have and it is extraordinarily good! I was living in Alamogordo three years ago, hated leaving New Mexico, I love Santa Fe, my heart is still there.
 
Alaskan said:
I have and it is extraordinarily good! I was living in Alamogordo three years ago, hated leaving New Mexico, I love Santa Fe, my heart is still there.
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Santa Fe is definitely a cool place. It's really got its own culture that stands out from the rest of the US. Alamogordo isn't too far from my school, and we occasionally work with NASA White Sands.

If you've been to Santa Fe, those green chile burgers at several downtown restaurants are excellent!
 
I was trying to remember what I had them in, but they were WONDERFUL and I don't normally like chillies. Santa Fe is heave on earth for me, I want to live there, my wife doesn't :( I can always visit! But always a bitter sweet thing knowing I can't stay.
 
Nope, never tried it, at least I don't think so :undecided: I did check out the White Sands monument though as I was passing through New Mexico on a road trip! :D

-Alex
 
I think mine was in a burger now. I was so close to White Sands where I worked at Holloman AFB, I could see the white dunes on my way to work.

Edit: Funny, google is targeting me heavy in the forum, watching everything I write.

 
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Hap said:
Nope, never tried it, at least I don't think so :undecided: I did check out the White Sands monument though as I was passing through New Mexico on a road trip! :D

-Alex
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Let me know if you go through that way again, and I'll make sure you get to try some!

Alaskan said:
I think mine was in a burger now. I was so close to White Sands where I worked at Holloman AFB, I could see the white dunes on my way to work.

Edit: Funny, google is targeting me heavy in the forum, watching everything I write.

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That means you've both seen where I did some of my work! :D

If you end up back down in that part of NM or El Paso again, let me know. That's close to where I spend the other half of my time.

You should take the wife to check out Colorado as well. I prefer southern CO to the north since we get warmer weather usually, and the stargazing is a lot better. I live in a rural area, but I'm close enough to spend weekends with family in Santa Fe.

Definitely green chile burgers and breakfast burritos are a staple in NM. Posole, frito pie, burritos, various sandwiches, enchiladas, and a whole bunch more are also great with green chile on it.

Edit: lol, Blake's Lottaburger is a fast food chain in NM, and their major business is green chile burgers and green chile breakfast burritos. There's one right past the border where I live just like the dispensaries on our end.
 
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I wasn't sure if you meant green chili as in chili with beans or the peppers themselves. I've had both and liked both. I was in Pueblo many years ago and also had a misspent year in Lubbock. Couldn't wait to get away from there. Pueblo was okay and had much of the chili and chilis you are talking about. The population there was 60% Hispanic.
 
paul1598419 said:
I wasn't sure if you meant green chili as in chili with beans or the peppers themselves. I've had both and liked both. I was in Pueblo many years ago and also had a misspent year in Lubbock. Couldn't wait to get away from there. Pueblo was okay and had much of the chili and chilis you are talking about. The population there was 60% Hispanic.
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Haha Paul it's chile, not chili when you're talking about the "pepper" down here. ;)
Sacrilegious to spell otherwise. Pretty funny to see people get riled up about it though since almost everybody still pronounces them the same.

Yeah, Pueblo shares a lot of the culture with NM unlike further north. I've got lots of family out there, and it's at least not growing as ridiculously fast as further north is now. A lot warmer too.

I'm okay with Pueblo, but I really hate Lubbock's part of TX and NM. Not a huge fan of oil and gas, and I like mountains. Definitely wouldn't want to spend too much time there either.
 
Had to check that out and apparently both are acceptable as is the spelling of it as chilli. However, some call them "chili peppers". Meh. Potato potat-o.
 
paul1598419 said:
Had to check that out and apparently both are acceptable as is the spelling of it as chilli. However, some call them "chili peppers". Meh. Potato potat-o.
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Yep. Both are acceptable everywhere except for NM and adjacent parts of the southwest. People take it too seriously, but whatever it takes to produce good food I guess.
 
Oh, salsa, hot sause, peppers, my mouth is watering already. :bowdown:
 
i live in santa fe, NM.

best mexican food in the known universe, and I have green chile several times a week.

Rivem said:
I live in southern Colorado, but my family is from New Mexico. I also live in NM part-time. In a lot of southwest towns around here, you can always tell when fall is here because of the smell of roasting green chile. It's a very important ingredient to all our local food, but it's still available further away.

You definitely are doing things wrong if you've ever been to Santa Fe or Albuquerque and haven't at least tried a dish with green chile. Even most of the fast food restaurants offer it.

I just wanted to see how many of you have had it and what you had it in. :D
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Well there we go, we just need Alaskan to visit and some of the Denver guys to come down, and we can have NM-LEM. :D

Edit: Of course, we'd have to break out the green lasers to celebrate the green chile.
 
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*schwing*

make it so. i promise i can blow minds with the laser stuff i *don't* post ;)

Rivem said:
Well there we go, we just need Alaskan to visit and some of the Denver guys to come down, and we can have NM-LEM. :D

Edit: Of course, we'd have to break out the green lasers to celebrate the green chile.
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