Why do they roast chilies?

We went to the Pueblo Chili and Frioles Festival this weekend to eat roasted chili's. Guess what you really don't eat roasted chilies, you add them to other concoctions, and there are a lot of concoctions out there. We did though eat Italian sausage (which seems to be the meat of choice for many of the recipes) covered in newly roasted chilies, and it was damn good.

Back to the roasting. The reason you roast chilies is to remove the skin, which is pretty tough. There was a block long grouping of different farms with their roasters going behind each booth. You can buy your chilies roasted or raw, roasted with other items, of which garlic seem to be the fan favorite, and there are not just one type of chilies, there are Pueblo, Anaheim, Hatch, etc. Each is a little different. It seems as if many people buy their chilies and then can or freeze them for later use, since they seem to be sold mostly by the bushel.

The festival itself was held in the Pueblo old downtown along Main St and the River Walk. This was out first time here and I found a project treasure...Anderson Upholstery. This store is well stocked with leather hides and southwest fabrics for the future Molesworth inspired projects. I won't have to call for samples from NYC.

They supposedly get 90K to this annual festival.

Beyond the festival, Marlys finished up the re-painting of the AC sign and it looks great, after it has a few coats of spar urethane it should be good for a few more years at the to be built new gate arch.

The floating shelf went in also...but just temporarily as it will need a few more coats of Tung/BLO/poly. But the mounting worked. Now Derek needs to make a better base for the sculpture.

Later.