When these are beginning to brown, add and sauté a few more minutes:

1 to 4 New Mexico green chiles, roasted, skinned, and chopped (called Anaheim or Hatch in Midwestern grocery stores. We buy a bunch and roast and skin them and freeze them in small packages to last the year until next harvest.)

Add:

Serve with a little cheese. Some might choose grated Parmesan or feta, but traditionally it’s Monterey jack or Chihuahua.

This also works well cooked on the grill, and combines deliciously with grilled meat, or with a pinto-beans, fresh tortillas and Spanish rice dinner.

Winter Squash

We like winter squash roasted in the oven. 425 degrees F is a standard heat. Slice your squash in half, scoop out the seeds to be cleaned and toasted with olive oil and a little salt while you wait for dinner, and place the halves on a tin-foil covered baking sheet. You really want to protect your pan, because baked-on squash is devilishly hard to scrub off. You can fill the scooped out center with all kinds of things like a little butter, or butter and brown sugar, or a ragout of other autumn harvest vegetables like onion, tomato, pepper, and eggplant. This is really delicious with spaghetti squash. I love to use herbs like rosemary, summer savory and sage in these recipes. Of course, some squash stand on their own, especially butternut. We prefer our butternut to be unadulterated in all its smoky-smooth richness, and roast it without any seasoning or fillings and scoop it out as accompaniment to roast beef and a green salad. Ode to fall.