Nanna's Cookbook

This recipe is one more reason I love dried chiles. Yes, you can re-hydrate them and then puree them into chili or enchilada sauce , but you can also make your own chili powder.  I'm not sure about you, but I go through a ton of chili powder. Before making my own, I used to always buy the biggest container of it that I could find. I most often reach for it when I make tacos , but it ends up in so many of my other recipes as well. I even like to sprinkle it over popcorn. So why wouldn't you want to make your own chili powder if you use it so much? Especially when it's easy to make and far superior in taste to what you can find in the grocery store. You'll never want to go back to the flat flavor of the jarred variety after sampling what you can easily make in fifteen minutes. It's smoky, spicy and much brighter than what you are probably used to having. What I really like about making my own chili powder is the customization factor. After so