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Neil Waugh

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I got a little chile crisis. I read a piece about ancho (how'm I doing so far Hay Maker) chile powder by AD Livinston in Grays Sporting Journal.
Who said it's the best for making Texas Red.
Whitetail opens in the WMUs I hunt in on Thursday and I plan on putting my usual supply of ground V in the freezer. God willin'.
Venison chile being one of my favorites.
Instead of the usual Costco stuff I was hoping to get some good, authentic Texas chile but darned if I lost the e-mail address and name of the place in Texas that sells the pure stuff.
Any help would be appreciated. Unless I'm totally twisted around I think the name is something like Parnells. Purcells???
Yup, I know, us Albertans like beans in our chile. (I can see Hay Maker's eye's narrowing and reaching for his old 30-30) I hope you will forgive us our sins.
 
Epicure makes a great chili spice but you can't buy that over counter,either through a dealer or online.

Greg also really likes the louisiana liquid spices you can get at Peavy Mart.
 
HA...all the mex that Tex got was from NEW MEX :) --well okay, there was that Alamo thing ....
but in the culinary dept....

See it's not INTERNATIONAL if it comes from NEW Mexico...
 
I did a lil research....and found this lil tidbit in some of my reading.

I know of only one Texan who has the facts straight on the origin of chili – Charles Ramsdell, author of an excellent history of San Antonio. It is clear from the delving, as well as my own, that chili con carne had its happenings in San Antonio. Was it a dish contrived by Mexican of old San Antonio de Bejar? No. Was it put together by white Texans? Not at all. You'd never guess in eight centuries. Chili was invented by Canary Islanders. In the 1720's the Spanish were in command of the town, which they had founded, but the French were pushing in from the East and an appeal went out to the King of Spain to send some settlers. The king obliged half heartedly, shipping sixteen families out from the Canary Islands. They established themselves in rude huts on the spot now known as the Main Plaza. In their homeland, these people were accustomed to food made pungent with spices. They liked hot peppers and lots of garlic and they were acquainted with oregano. So they looked around to see what was available in foodstuffs in their new home and they came up with a stew of beef and hot peppers and oregano and garlic and, I make bold to believe, tomatoes and onions and beans. It is my guess, too that they managed to get hold of some cumin seed, which comes chiefly from North Africa.

Interestin to say the least huh.

I do make a mean pot of chili tho. (No beans in it either)
 
Neil Waugh said:
I got a little chile crisis. I read a piece about ancho (how'm I doing so far Hay Maker) chile powder by AD Livinston in Grays Sporting Journal.
Who said it's the best for making Texas Red.
Whitetail opens in the WMUs I hunt in on Thursday and I plan on putting my usual supply of ground V in the freezer. God willin'.
Venison chile being one of my favorites.
Instead of the usual Costco stuff I was hoping to get some good, authentic Texas chile but darned if I lost the e-mail address and name of the place in Texas that sells the pure stuff.
Any help would be appreciated. Unless I'm totally twisted around I think the name is something like Parnells. Purcells???
Yup, I know, us Albertans like beans in our chile. (I can see Hay Maker's eye's narrowing and reaching for his old 30-30) I hope you will forgive us our sins.
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Neil,I dont use chile powder in my chile,and no beans either,so probably caint help much on the chile powder mystery.
But there are lots of stores around here that sell pure ancho chile powder and probably quite a few Texas vendors advertising pure ancho chile powder on the web.
When I make chile I use alot of "chili patene's" its a lil red hot pepper that grows wild along the creek..................good luck

PS Happy hunting,deer are fat and sassy around here this year,lookin forward to makin me some dried venison sausage.
 
Thanx Haymaker, I started getting the feeling early on that I'd asked a dumb canucklehead question. Especially if there are bins of the stuff in Texas Safeways.
I guess we got bins of chile too. But if you asked the kid who fills them up if it was ancho, there's a 110% chance he give you a blank look.
I googled up a place and I got a couple of pounds coming. Probably paid an arm and a leg.
But I like the idea of that creek of yours. The only things on the banks of the creek by my place are shopping carts and steel belted radials.
You can boil the heck out of those suckers for days and nothing good comes of it.
 
Neil Waugh said:
Thanx Haymaker, I started getting the feeling early on that I'd asked a dumb canucklehead question. Especially if there are bins of the stuff in Texas Safeways.
I guess we got bins of chile too. But if you asked the kid who fills them up if it was ancho, there's a 110% chance he give you a blank look.
I googled up a place and I got a couple of pounds coming. Probably paid an arm and a leg.
But I like the idea of that creek of yours. The only things on the banks of the creek by my place are shopping carts and steel belted radials.
You can boil the heck out of those suckers for days and nothing good comes of it.
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Glad you found some now,when you get that buck,post some pictures...............good luck
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Those little peppers are also called "Bird Peppers" They grow wild in my yard. The birds eat the peppers,then "drop" the seeds anywhere.
 
I have birdeye peppers, or chili paquine...whatever ya wanna call em in my flower beds. Brought em with us when we moved out here. Dad n Law got his start of them on a trip deer huntin somewhere. I don't remember where. But anyway, I have em, and have never seen a bird eat one.

Peg...do you know what kinda birds they are that you have that eats em?

Speakin of, I need to go pick em, they are loaded now.
 

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