When you see a new chile pepper salsa at the Fresh Chile Company, you know this didn’t happen by accident. It took lots of work and innovation to invent, yes, invent a new salsa. Well now there is a new one and I will tell you about what it took to create Randy’s Salsa. Fresh Chile Company owner Randy McMillan wanted to have a salsa with larger chunks and wanted to use a chile pepper variety, Matador, that is loved by chile fans. The development team started the inventing process. It started with the chile: Matador, the chopping was one-inch squares. If it was just chile they could stop there but they wanted a big chunk salsa, so they combined Green and Red Matador, juicy tomatoes, crisp onions, a hint of lemon juice to adjust acidity and added a unique taste, some water, garlic, a vegan chicken-type base and get this a touch of black pepper for an extra kick. How did all of these delicious items get into the mix? It is all here.

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It was with sadness that I learned on Wednesday that former NMSU, St. Louis Cardinals and Denver Bronco quarterback Charley Johnson has passed at age 85. It wasn’t his intention to leave Texas and come to New Mexico. A couple things happened. He was raised in Big Spring, Texas. A super athlete in high school, he intended to play football in college. One problem: he got a football scholarship to Schreiner Institute which is now Schreiner University. But the year that Charley Johnson arrived at college, the football program where he intended to play football was cancelled. Charley Johnson was determined to play collegiate sports, so he checked around and through several coaches we was able to find Presley Askew, the basketball coach in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He transferred to the College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts and started taking courses in Chemical Engineering. While a student, the college changed its name to New Mexico State University. One major problem he couldn’t fix was that the football coach, Warren Woodson didn’t have a football scholarship to give him. Charley and his family didn’t have the money for him to just attend but he was able to get a scholarship for Aggie Basketball and an odd thing happened to him.

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In New Mexico we have what I’m going to call the New Mexico grown chile pepper plant. It’s central to our identity. We go to restaurants for their chips and salsa. The question: red or green is answered in New Mexico as both, in a blend, The official smell of New Mexico is roasting green chile. We have many chile peppers. There’s secrets of New Mexico chile.

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