During the week I spent at Red River, we made several Automobile trips to Santa Fe and Taos. I regret I did not take pictures in Santa Fe. I purposely left my camera in the car in deference to the general museum propitiation on pictures. We visited several museums including the old 17th century Governor's Palace, the Kit Carson Museum, and and a particularly interesting Indian Culture Museum. The title pictures above was taken through the windshield as we were entering a small town near Taos. The other pictures exhibited below are in and around Taos and the surrounding area.
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The first picture (left) picture shows the Las Trampas Church that is located in a rural area near Taos. The second picture (right) is of a plaque on the grounds telling something of its history. |
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| A horse and mule in a small corral across for the Las Trampas Church. | '
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Jack snapped this picture of Lucy Ann and I in the court
yard of the Rancho de Chimayo Restaurant near the Las Tramas Church.
We had just completed a delightful lunch. My entree was chiles
rellenos, stuffed peppers filled with Monterey jack Cheese, breaded, and
deep fried with a tomatillo sauce. It was very good and quite
reasonable. I was most interested in the posole, a side dish of
white hominy with onions and peppers a bit of pork and a wonderful New
Mexican sauce. This dish is endemic to New Mexico and is
unknown in our Tex/Mex culture.
My posole recipe developed since my return is designed more as a single dish meal. It uses beef rather than pork and is available from the following link. This recipe is not as good as the New Mexican original, but it makes a good taste single dish supper. Posole Recipe
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| Here the Rio Grande River is pictured above Taos, New Mexico. This river comes out of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado to ramble south and east across New Mexico to El Paso, Texas where it forms the Internationals boarder between the United States and Mexico as it continues east and south on its course to Brownsville, Texas where it discharges in the Gulf... |
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' The two pictures shown below are of the San Francisco de Assi church in Taos. This is an 18th century church that is well know for the Georgia O'Keeffe painting of the massive rear part of the building structure. Previously I chose my picture of the back as the title page for these New Mexico pages. |
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