Two small food notes

First, the ancho chiles did not work well in the Chicken Cacciatore recipe. Worth a try, I think. Next time I’ll just double the amount of red bell pepper: two instead of one.

Second, I made The Wife’s Sausage & Egg Breakfast Bites with red chard this time, and the chard was so very nice and fresh, I saved the stalks (which are not used in the dish) and simmered them covered for 20 minutes in a very little chicken stock—cover the chopped stalks only halfway. They steam to tenderness. They tasted surprisingly like red beets/beet greens. I wonder if what I’m tasking is the pigment compound.