This dish is very quick to prepare, using canned tuna, and taking advantage of available produce, including tomatoes, garlic, bay leaves and radishes, in addition to pickled peppers ... click on title for more
I have mentioned and used pickled chiles güeros, but this is my first attempt at pickling them at home. For this, this year I tried growing Hungarian Hot Wax peppers in my backyard, a variety I thought might work well substituting carricillos, since it is used extensively for pickling, also characterized for an elongated shape, and usually harvested while still green, or light yellow ... click on title for more
Poblano peppers are now available all year in many supermarkets in Mexico, and even other countries, but in the olden days, it was a highly anticipated seasonal vegetable for the month of September; coinciding with this month's many national festivities, the dark green peppers would be (and still are) featured in dishes such as rajas con crema (poblano strips and cream), the emblematic chiles en nogada (stuffed poblanos in walnut sauce), and this classic cream of poblano ... click on title for more