Roswell Adventures

Yesterday's impulse buy - rotisserie chicken at Sam's Club. That got me thinking about what to do with the leftovers. I've seen a lot of posts recently about making red sauce, but I didn't have the powdered chile I needed. However, I did have powdered green chile! So, I went to work. Ingredients: A batch of Green Chile Sauce or Out-of-Season Green Chile Sauce. (Or other sauce of your preference). Chicken breasts from one rotisserie chicken, cubed Corn tortillas 1 lb block of cheddar cheese, shredded Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Put thin layer of sauce in bottom of a 12x12" baking dish. Next layer your ingredients - tortillas (torn to fit), chicken, sauce, cheese. I made 3 layers, making sure to have enough sauce for a good covering - and enough cheese, too :) Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

I love green chile season! You know it is starting when the big chile roasting drums appear in front of the grocery stores. Once that happens, we check the website for Graves Farm, which is just south of Roswell. We pick a time and run down to pick up a bushel of roasted Big Jim's. The smell while they are roasting is amazing - and the smell lingers in the car for several days. It is wonderfully relaxing after a long day at work :) After we get home, the fun begins - peeling, seeding, dicing, preparing green sauce . Then we enjoy morning-after-morning of huevos rancheros smothered in green sauce. I have to stop talking about it before I drool on my keyboard. Alas, it is mid-June, and green chile season is nearly 2 months away (depending on harvest). I remembered I had powdered green chiles I bought at the Chile Cheese Festival here a while back (from Harvest Gifts - we bought the medium). After my husband dug through the cabinet and found them I pulled together a recipe and w