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The “holidaze” have wrapped up and that means one thing: cozy food season. With the cold, miserable and wintry weather we’ve had, a hot bowl of chili sounds like heaven. Growing up, I always loved ...

Some restaurants tout their farm-to-table bona fides, but there is one place in New Mexico that produces all of the eggs that ...

I have seen poinsettias growing outdoors as far north as Granada Hills but they were always planted against a wall.

Finger grapes are two inches long and have the oblong shape of certain chili peppers ... Native to Arizona and Mexico, the strain available in nurseries is a low-growing, almost mat-like plant ...

"Chile peppers are the ... mysterious and highly addictive vegetable ... "But all around New Mexico, it's the same variety. Around the border in Mexico, they grow the same varieties and people do not ...

Tierra Negra is a preservative-free dark salsa made from dried chili peppers, onions ... that was an honor to my family from and that is Mexico, and a lot of natives refer to Mexico as ‘Mi ...

Traditional burritos are great, but Green Ghost’s fajita burrito, packed with all those unctuous peppers and onions that come ...

In the Northwest Side’s Dunning neighborhood, chefs Jhoana Ruiz and Danny Espinoza and their family are slinging inventive tamales, tacos and breakfast plates. Their bricks-and-mortar space opened in ...

So she called up several of her friends who had the similar experience of making tamales growing up ... meat seasoned with oregano, black pepper, cumin, chile ancho, and other spices.

Starters include addictive fried delicata squash dressed in pecorino, chili, and honey (get two orders ... oven-baked ...