I started growing the rarer chillies after seeing Rick Steins The Road to Mexico...his stuff is not
too complicated but does need a degree of " local " ingredients.. luckily, I can grow Chillies although getting some of the seeds was hard work.
But where do you get that 'ndga stuff ? It's the weird stuff that cheeses me off...I actually have ramped up my home grown Chilli plants to include Ancho's, Pasarilla and Guaillio's but some ingredients are almost impossible to source...and that is what really pisses me off !
I kind of hoped that most of the responses to my original post would be recipe based....I'm not too worried about the personality of Chefs, just their ability to come up with something nice from fairly mainstream ingredients which does not involve a faff. So no need to hate or love on personal...
Mrs V is a big fan of Yotam Ottolenghi for some reason yet I find nearly all his recipes either incredibly complicated, or have difficult to source ingredients or both. ... she bought herself one of his cookbooks two years ago and it's never been used....just checked The Guardian weekend food...