Every August Central Market ships in tons of hatch chiles from Hatch, New Mexico and puts on the hatch chile festival . Last Saturday we headed to Central Market and fought our way through the crowds (who were super excited to have a girl with a giant DSLR camera around her neck bumping into their carts and blocking walkways to the get the perfect shot) to get a little piece of the hatch chile action for ourselves. The festival ends this Tuesday, August 20, so head on over!
I felt really sorry for these poor fools who had to spend all day roasting chiles in the 100 degree heat.
We headed over to my parents’ house with our chile haul, and Jon made hatch chile burgers (he chopped up the chiles and mixed them in with the ground beef). Because ground beef makes me dry heave, I had a grilled chicken breast with strips of hatch over the top. Before cooking with hatch chiles that have been roasted, you scrape the burnt stuff off of the outside and remove the seeds.
And, of course, margaritas make everything more delicious.
