chipotles en adobo

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This stuff is pretty much the bomb. Smoky and hot, and cheap. I've seen it (or another brand of it) in pretty much every supermarket I've been to. http://www.amazon.com/Costena-Chipotle-Adobo-Sauce-12-Ounce/dp/B0011T8XGW

You can add it to anything! For a milder touch, just use the sauce. For more kick, chop up the peppers too. I am pretty much hooked on a lentil-and-ground-turkey chili of my own devise. The only seasonings are this stuff and cumin.

Thanks to the salt and vinegar and capsaicin, it keeps forever in the fridge if you put it in a tupperware.

Comments

[suicide-sam-e.livejournal.com]

Cheap?

[random-walker.livejournal.com]

It's fairly cheap. Amazon food is overpriced, it's cheaper at a supermarket. Also one can has around 10 smoked jalapeños in it; it goes a ways.

[suicide-sam-e.livejournal.com]

I suppose that is true. My predisposition is towards dry, powdered or grains of seasoning, those or sauces. So much of Southern cooking is butter and salt.

Still... I would have to be convinced of their being worth the expense.

[random-walker.livejournal.com]

However one doesn't need to be convinced of the expenses (and, equivalently, constraints) which are customary. One of the intrinsic and inexplicit challenges of modernity, is for one to take note of this meta-constraint.

Butter is both underrated and overused. I'm a fan.

[random-walker.livejournal.com]

http://www.quickswood.com/my_weblog/2007/01/designers_pasta.html