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Posts tagged “chili”

Five Ways to Warm Up this Weekend

In the past two days in New York, we've skipped right over the cool, comfortable days of Fall and gone straight to winter. It's freezing outside (and intermittently raining, just to add insult to in...

Feel the Burn: Tips for Washing Hot Pepper Off Your Hands

Some people aren't so sensitive (luckies!), but most of us wind up with tingly burning hands for hours if we try to cut hot peppers without gloves. A fact that we seem to forget on a regular basis. Ne...

14 Chili Recipes for Fall
Better Homes & Gardens

There's a nip in the air in New York today, and it's making us really excited for chilly weather. And chili weather. Chilly chili weather, if you will. Here are 14 recipes perfect for Fall, from ch...

Flavor Inspiration Board: Chili Pepper and Lime

These two ingredients make an unlikely, but absolutely terrific, pair! We love the burning heat of those chili peppers followed by a refreshing blast of lime juice. It's perfect in salsas and light di...

Recipe: Chili Con Carne

Probably like many of you, we were raised on chili made with ground beef and didn't know there was anything else until after we left home! Now, we're converts to chili made with tender cubes of whole ...

Look! Cincinnati Chili Cupcakes

Yes, yes - we know. We just predicted that the cupcake trend will be over soon (if it isn't already dead). And yet, we just couldn't pass up this cupcake. It stopped us in our tracks. ...

Food Science: What Makes Chile Peppers Spicy?

Are you a fan of hot and spicy foods?! With our own chile peppers almost ready to be picked, we started getting curious about what makes peppers spicy and why some peppers are "hotter" than others. R...

Check Yes or No: Spicy Chocolate

We talked a lot about chocolate a couple weeks ago - we even had an interview with a master chocolate maker and video instructions for grinding your own chocolate! One of our favorite chocolate trea...

Recipe: Cincinnati Chili

It's Chocolate Week! What's chili doing here? Well, this is Cincinnati chili - a blend of cinnamon, hot pepper, cumin, and, yes, chocolate. It's not a gimmick or a mole-wannabe. Cincy chili is rich ...