New Mexicans can get a little carried away with their chili peppers. There’s chili beer, chili pizza, chili ice cream — you can find the smoldering flavors of chili peppers in just about anything. And then there’s chili brittle. Luis Flores, owner of chili brittle purveyor Las Cruces Candy Company, beats the summer heat by getting up at 3 a.m. to prepare his specialties. His company makes a dozen different types of brittle, studded with pecans, peanuts, pistachios and the less familiar pinon nut. Today, Flores is making his Green Chile Pecan Brittle. – via NPR
