#sangria
In the afternoons at work, a coworker and I get about an hour into hour shift and then start talking about food and simply cannot stop. For the past few weeks the hot topic of conversation has been hatch chiles, which I actually had never heard of until then. Her excitement, though, got me really excited. I took my boyfriend to Central Market on the first day of the Hatch Chile Festival and was so excited you would have thought I had actually tasted a hatch chile before.
Hatch chile toffee, hatch chile cornbread, hatch chile cookies, hatch chiles roasted, hatch chiles stuffed. Every kind of hatch chile everything. And we tried every free sample offered. Some twice. Or three times.
We settled on a hatch chile fajita night complete with non-hatch chile sangria (which we also tried!).
The chicken we bought pre-marinated. But the guacamole was homemade using hatch chile salsa - avocados, salsa, fresh cilantro, and some of Andrew’s secret ingredients.
I also accidentally added a whole bottle of rum to the sangria, so with slightly less I think it would have turned out tastier. (Not that I’m complaining about our result)
We picked up some Two Buck Chuck which I think is the best sangria base since it’s, ya know, two three bucks. And added apple, peach, and lime, and raspberries.
You can never go wrong with fajita night, at least in my book.
So if anyone hasn’t gone yet, go to Hatch Chile Festival! Or go try some hatch chiles!! I’ve been eating them with my eggs too in the morning - delicious!
Sunday Sangria ✨
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