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Originally Posted by YaWhateva
Posole is delicious! I'm sad that I moved so far away from New Mexico now. Chili, mmm. The food in D.C. just tastes bland after growing up in NM. New Mexican is so far from real Mexican food, it's crazy. New Mexican food is definitely unique, but delicious!
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Two words for you. Carne adovada (from La Hacienda in Albuquerque
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That posole sounds very different than true posole though. It sounds like an Anglocised (read: white) version made for tourists in Santa Fe. Still, with posole, pork, and chili in it, how could you go wrong?
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well you have to realize that there are about a jillion different recipes for posole. The restaurants near santa fe actually tend to make the posole without chili powder (a real good example is El Paragua in Espanola, which has some of the best food anywhere on the planet, hands down), while the Albuquerque restaurants always include it.
Since that first time described above I've eaten posole in i-don't-know-how-many restaurants in New Mexico (More often than not I take my vacation there, and plan on retiring there eventually as well) and it's never the same from place to place. The only thing that stays the same is that it's always good
Oh and you have some good food options there in your area too. Pop down to Williamsburg and try Raliegh or Mitchie Tavern, and especially Christiana Campbell's (get the spoon bread - phenomenal). Closer to home is 220 in Winchester (seafood - REALLY good, and quite reasonable prices considering the mountain of food they give you). One advantage to my line of work is that I've been to, and eaten in, tons of places around the country. This is not, however, an advantage for my waistline