Welcome from central Texas, Good luck with your season.
Mike
Mike
Welcome from a little west of you. Try this...take half a dozen roma tomatoes, and 3-5 cloves of garlic. Roast them on high broil in the oven on the top rack. Blacken as much as possible. On a lower rack, place the fresh tepins...and roll them around a bit every time you turn the maters. The garlic will finish first, toss it in a blender. When the maters finish backening the skins, toss in blender. throw a handfull of dried chile de arbol on the tepins right before you take them out...30 seconds will do. Toss all that in a blender, add some sea salt, onion powder, black pepper, and thin with a spash of water. If it's too potent, you can add a can of Rotel to the blende...you want to belnd it very well...chunks don't work in this recipe.
Let it chill uncovered overnight...then right before you serve it, pour some in a bowl, and add a little fresh onion and cilantro to just what you put on the table.
You can sub in dried pequins or tepins from the store, but only roast for 30 seconds or less...dried chiles burn up fast...a little burning on the dried stuff is want you want...but not too much.
Do it.
Oh...if you ever want to come out west a little with a pound or two of fresh chiles...let me know. I can show you a little magic.