tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post2220448895851353358..comments2008-09-29T23:07:12.825-05:00Jo Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411430042547033972jo@jocastilloart.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-88508713732656247712008-09-29T23:07:00.000-05:002008-09-29T23:07:00.000-05:00Hi Marie, Tile Lady, I will check out your blogs in more detail. We are in New Mexico for the summer and in a couple of weeks go back to Bastrop for the winter. Thanks for stopping in, nice to know you.Jo Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411430042547033972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-74890994558656246462008-09-29T23:05:00.000-05:002008-09-29T23:05:00.000-05:00Valerie, hi there. Thank you for stopping by this evening.Jo Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411430042547033972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-17000476867106335382008-09-29T23:04:00.000-05:002008-09-29T23:04:00.000-05:00Susan, Hi. Yes chiles can be a little bit hard on the eyes and hands. We wear rubber gloves. New Mexican food is different than California, Arizona and Tex-Mex, too. We miss it and have to take the "real stuff" home with us to Texas.<BR/><BR/>I will check out the award. Thank you.Jo Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411430042547033972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-74173075451717617122008-09-29T19:01:00.000-05:002008-09-29T19:01:00.000-05:00Joe, I came to your blog via fishing guy, and I love your work! Gorgeous! I hope you don't mind if I add you to my art-related blog, Blue Lotus Tile (http://bluelotustile.blogspot.com) <BR/>Come by and check it out but also visit my main blog, A Colorful World (http://daughterm.blogspot.com)<BR/><BR/>So, you're from Bastrop!!!! We used to live in Ledbetter! I have a post called Festival Hill you might want to check out. :-) Have a great week! Glad I found you!<BR/>MarieThe Tile Ladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06890388727784255219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-11272662836233554892008-09-29T18:56:00.000-05:002008-09-29T18:56:00.000-05:00oooh....you are making me hungry! Those chiles look delicious!Valerie Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17636202309363978079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-42396667768578945682008-09-29T08:16:00.000-05:002008-09-29T08:16:00.000-05:00I have sent you an award .. you can pick it up at my blog. I really enjoyed looking throughout your sketches/finished work, reading your commentaries (spelling)....what a nice blog to start off the day with.susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454722619404250638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-34729142428934637232008-09-29T08:00:00.000-05:002008-09-29T08:00:00.000-05:00I really enjoyed reading your blog about chiles. I remember my sister thinking she really like hot Mexican food...until she found out that American food is not the same as authentic Mexican---much, much hotter. I once strung little red peppers not knowing how hot they were and rubbed my eyes....ow! what a mistake...know better now. Thank you for your generous comments about on my blog.susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14454722619404250638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-72605801815090678102008-09-28T10:29:00.000-05:002008-09-28T10:29:00.000-05:00Hi Regina, thank you. The chile used to be roasted on top of a wood stove or in the oven. Now they make a metal basket and turn it over a butane burner. They can roast one or two gunny sack fulls at a time. We also cooked it on our grill. They roast it in about 10 minutes and we used to take all day, turning the chile a pod at a time on the stove or grill.Jo Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411430042547033972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-13724682046648528912008-09-27T23:50:00.000-05:002008-09-27T23:50:00.000-05:00Great sketch of the mat and door, Jo - love your squigglies!! And the pepper photos were really interesting - I never knew how that was done!Regina Calton Burchetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13645029247311079588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-18014552510713750402008-09-27T23:01:00.000-05:002008-09-27T23:01:00.000-05:00Rhonda, I've heard of those cookies but have never tried them either. I do make a NY cheesecake that I got out of McCalls magazine about 40 years ago. Very good. Ha. I failed to mention that Frances is 91 years old and sure knows her chile. She is in assisted living so doesn't cook now, but my mouth waters for her breakfasts with eggs,bacon or sausage, potatoes, tortillas and chile. Oh my.....Jo Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411430042547033972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-25384171713900572482008-09-27T22:01:00.000-05:002008-09-27T22:01:00.000-05:00I guess I'm going to have to visit New Mexico sometime to try this...it sounds delicious. In New York we don't have "red or green"...but we do have black and whites (a type of cookie).Rhonda Hurwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06392861482921595867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-2754208578174553442008-09-27T21:06:00.000-05:002008-09-27T21:06:00.000-05:00fishing guy, we eat hot peppers, but not so hot that you can't taste the good flavors. By the way, we ate at the Texas Roadhouse here in ABQ tonight. :)Jo Castillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00411430042547033972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29792638.post-70636431298280835702008-09-27T13:17:00.000-05:002008-09-27T13:17:00.000-05:00Jo: Wonderful post, I so like peppers but the only hot thing I eat is mild chicken wings.fishing guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03826128050970967135noreply@blogger.com