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swellcat · July 30, 2016

Some of the best aromatherapy I know is sticking one's head/nose in a bin of dried pods at an Hispanic-oriented grocery store. Guajillos smell as good as unlit pipe tobacco.

By the way, many of those chiles are sun-dried, thus, the seeds are viable.

One more factoid: Guajillos seem to be a Mexican staple, yet every pack of pods I've bought in "Mexican" grocery stores (here in a state bordering Mexico and that used to be Mexico) has been from Peru.

Now, back to you, delicious powder.

PS: Guajillos are pretty and taste OK fresh, but dried on the plants, they take on a new colour and world's more flavour.

July 30, 2016	#5
swellcat Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Cowtown, Texas – 7B/8A Posts: 192	Aromatherapy Some of the best aromatherapy I know is sticking one's head/nose in a bin of dried pods at an Hispanic-oriented grocery store. Guajillos smell as good as unlit pipe tobacco. By the way, many of those chiles are sun-dried, thus, the seeds are viable. One more factoid: Guajillos seem to be a Mexican staple, yet every pack of pods I've bought in "Mexican" grocery stores (here in a state bordering Mexico and that used to be Mexico) has been from Peru. Now, back to you, delicious powder. PS: Guajillos are pretty and taste OK fresh, but dried on the plants, they take on a new colour and world's more flavour.