From: "Alex Silbajoris" <asilbajo@hotmail.com> > > >But then, what could I eat these days > >without chile? > > Here's another thing to try, a Cuban style of marinade. This is the basic > recipe for a pork roast on Nochebuena, Christmas Eve, but consider this for > poultry or seafood, too. > > Make a marinade base of half orange juice and half lemon or lime juice. > (The real thing uses sour oranges, if you can find them.) Salt it a bit, > and cut some small onions into lacy-thin slices and mix them in. Want > garlic? Add garlic. > > [Evil chile-head digression: add any fresh chiles you wish.] > > Marinate the meat for at least one hour, the larger the pieces, the longer > the time. For the roast, save the mariade for basting; for grilling, save > some to brush on during cooking. > Have fun, A. Hi Alex. You almost had me worried then, until I got to the bit where you wrote [Evil chile-head digression: Add any fresh chile's you wish]. Ah well! I shall certainly do that Alex. Thanks for a super dooper idea for brightening up the roast and inserting a bit more chile into the menu. Hottest regards. Walt. CH#2218. An old chile-head from the old country.