Last evening my sweetie and I toodled off to a New Year's party at the home of a friend who is a self-proclaimed 'Head. Earlier in the week I'd given her a can of chipotles in adobo, with which she was unfamiliar. While we were feasting on a great variety of dishes brought by all in attendence (including a very spicy deep-fried turkey, I need to get the guy's seasoning mix!) I asked my friend if she'd tried the chipotles yet. She jumped up, opened the can, dumped them in a bowl and put them on the table. I pronounced that to those who had never experienced them they may be a bit hotter than they were expecting. My fried grabbed a large cracker, plopped a whole chipotle on the cracker and gobbled it down. Whew! 10 minutes later she was still tingling from the heat... It was, no doubt, a rather spicy morning for her today as well. (eg) Hope you all have a happy, healthy, prosperous, wondrous and spicy New Year! Starwind -- If all the beasts were gone, Man would die from a great loneliness of the spirit. For whatever happens to the beast soon happens to man. All things are connected. --Chief Seattle