Can you help me?

I guess that my chocolate passion is not a mystery to the readers of this site and maybe the fact that I have a post category dedicated to the food of the gods might be a hint. My posts on chocolate have been up to now limited to desserts and candy, but there's quite a few chocolate savoury dishes to be tried out there. I really like the Tuscan cinghiale in dolceforte (wild-boar in dolceforte sauce, a spicy and sweet wine sauce with chocolate) and I think that cocoa bread goes really well with game. This combinations might be slightly unusual but once you overcome the initial wonder for the new taste you quickly learn to love them. For years I've wanted to try one particular chocolate flavoured dish, mole Poblano. The few (and mostly disappointing) Mexican restaurants I tried here in Europe never seemed to have it on the menu so the only solution was to make the dish myself, solution sadly abandoned as I never managed to find the right ingredients. I had almost given up when, a few weeks ago, I found a jar of pre-made mole sauce on sale. Quite expensive, but testing gastronomic expectations is worth the few extra euros. Once I finally managed to find time to make the mole Poblano I got hooked. At first I was a bit confused by the slightly sweet taste but at the second bite I fell in love. Now I need your help. I absolutely want to try and make this from scratch myself but I need an ingredients source. Does anyone out there know of a decent source for Mexican ingredients in Europe (the American ones I've seen have excessive shipping prices)? Can you help a mole deprived blogger :-) ?

Comments

[Barrett]

It may help to know that Ancho chiles are just another name for dried Poblanos. While it might be pricy to ship a batch of perishable poblanos, a bag of dried (and very light) anchos should be relatively inexpensive to transport from the Americas.

[Petra]

Versuchs mal bei Mexal http://www.mex-al.de/
Dort gibt es verschiedene Chilisorten, aber auch fertige Mole. Ich habe dort schon öfters bestellt, sie liefern schnell und zuverlässig.

Viel Erfolg

[Alberto]

Barrett, thanks for the tip.

Petra, danke für die Internet-Adresse. Das Angobot siehet seher gut aus. Noch in London?

[Meg]

Hi Alberto,

I've bought dried chillies from Chillipepper Pete at a farmers market here in the UK before, and he has a web-ordering service too at http://www.chillipepperpete.com/. The chillis I got from him were pretty good and I assume the quality would be the same.

[carlo]

Here's another good source of chili peppers

http://www.coolchile.co.uk/

have fun

ciao

[Alberto]

Mag and Carlo: thanks for the links!

[armando]

hi there does any one knows whats the best way of importing food from south america