We hit Las Glorias del Buen Comer in Silver Lake – home to an impressive collection of plastic floristry – for creamy shrimp enchiladas in a green coriander sauce; chilaquiles made with fried stale tortillas, salsa and scrambled egg; and huge poblano chillies stuffed with soft white cheese.
Greenwich Village Through Dec. 18 For years Marlene McCarty's mural-size ballpoint-pen drawings of parricidal teenagers have been some of the chilliest hot stuff around, though they haven't been all that visible.
We were heading east to the Silfra fissure in the Thingvellir national park, where we were going to go diving (temperature -2C), though first we had to stuff our chilly limbs into blubber suits, and then into dry suits.
Carefully coat the stuffed chillies in flour, shaking off the excess, then dip them in the batter 6-8 atimetime, depending on the size of your fryer.
The "pudding" is made from steamed sweet potato with chillies and herbs, stuffed into pig intestine like a sausage, before being boiled.
We took a break to lunch on stuffed chillied squid and a snapper curry at a Malay canteen near the Batik factory near the charming fishing harbour of Teluk Bahang.
The night guard awaited its call to duty as we dried the stuff for three chilly weeks, determined to put it to the test on New Year's Eve.
She writes deftly, unobtrusively, subtly drawing her reader into the cold, wet world of London, where "the sky's empty, grey, as if someone has dragged a tarpaulin across it", where "the rain kept coming, as if someone had unplugged the sky, sheets of the stuff, thick and chilly".
Eggnog gets passed around -- Mexicans call it rompopé -- but Christmas Eve is usually a chilly affair, so everyone sips the hot stuff -- canela (cinnamon tea), atole (a corn gruel that's much tastier than it sounds) or ponche.
However, since Barbie won't be getting chilly at night, thick fabric or even stuffing it with cotton will suffice.
