We stayed at Ancient Ways Cafe - El Morro RV Park. We hiked El Morro and El Calderon. I didn't take a lot of pictures, but here are a few photos:
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| The Hubby |
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| View of El Morro from the Campground |
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| View of El Morro from the Campground |
Benni lounging among the free range chickens.
Hiking El Morro
Views from the campground
At El Calderone
We didn't eat any meals at the Cafe but did stop for coffee and a little dessert. I saw this apple pie in the display and thought it would go good with a cup of coffee.
Now the cafe's desserts can't compare to the ones that Mitchell and San Geraldo indulge in regularly in Spain, but this apple pie is, was, unique (or maybe not that unique here in New Mexico).
The first bite was a surprise, not quite a shock, but a definite surprise.
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| Apple Pie With Piñon Nuts and GREEN CHILE |
6 comments:
That's one helluva apple pie! Sounds like it bit you back!
OMG! Apple pie with piñones! I will order an item from a menu simply because it contains piñones. And the addition of green chilis sounds so good. This compares; it definitely compares!
So many words here in New Mexico are in Spanish, but I've never seen pine nuts translated piñones; even the roadside venders have signs that say piñon (which is actually the pine tree) and the local Piñon Coffee contains the nuts, not the tree. I see the nuts referred to as piñon nuts, but most often as just piñon. We, of Italian ancestry, know them as pignoli.
As for the green chile, (not chili) (or red chile), they put it in or on everything: bagels, ice cream, mac and cheese, burgers, chicken, calzones, pizza, and every kind of taco, burrito, enchilada, and all variations of the same. Kind of makes everything taste the same...but that's just my opiñon.
I first fell in love with pignoli in the '70s. Randazzos Cafe Al Mare in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, had the best cookie -- which they called simply pignoli. I'm not usually a fan of the addition of chiles just for the sake of adding chiles. Like in chocolate for instance! But It sounds really interesting in apple pie. Our friend Pedro (Spanish) has now perfected his version of American Apple Crisp (British Apple Crumble); he calls it apple pie. But I don't care what he calls it.
Benni looks pretty upset by the chickens. :-) Just found your blog, following you now!!
I only blog infrequently nowadays. Seems like I have little to say...or is it that I have too much to say but little patience to put it in writing?
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