Ancho Chili powder

legomyeggo

Amazon has quite a few selections of Ancho

Austin Egghead

Ask grocery store manager to order the McCormick powder. My favorite is Fiesta Bolner out of SA TX. That is the powder featured in the bulk bins at HEB stores. Here is link: http://www.fiestaspices.com/search_results.asp?cx=007611723412574293098:dc3urhwkq5s&cof=FORID:10&ie=UTF-8&q=Ancho+chili+powder&sa=&siteurl=www.fiestaspices.com/index.asp?page=chili_peppers&ref=www.fiestaspices.com/index.asp&ss=10614j9659004j18
The nice thing about buying the whole pod is you will be able to toast and grind what you need.
Penszey's powder is my second choice.

Cymbaline65

@AustinEgghead: I shopped at the HEB near the Dell HQ in Austin many times. Always an interesting experience.  I'll figure something out. 

Everyone, thanks for the help and effort!

Mickey

Save some money and buy bulk in small amounts. Last time I HAD to buy bottle it was $8 for a small 3/4 filled bottle.

Egglegal_Alien

@Focker I see you disagreed with my post, just wanted to let you know I'm not making this up, I share this pic in case you're interested:

Austin Egghead

@Egglegal_Alien‌ .....not to muddy the waters, but where I grew up the pasilla and the ancho are considered two different peppers from the same family. They have different taste characteristics, looks and feel.
Interesting link: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/660573
And another: http://mexicocooks.typepad.com/mexico_cooks/2008/09/la-feria-del-chile-the-chile-fair-in-queréndaro-michoacán.html
I can't make the link work. Copy and paste the entire link into your browser. Vanilla and iPad are just not that compatible, sorry

Cymbaline65

I went ahead and special ordered it through my local Publix. I was quite surprised when the grocery dude actually knew what it was and even muttered "yeah, we should probably stock it."

Skiddymarker

Buy direct from Penzey's. Over $30 they ship free to the lower 48. I have not had a bad "spice" experience from Penzey's. Check your spice cupboard, along with the Ancho powder, get some Mexican oregano, some Turkish oregano. You like heat the Berbere is awesome and true taste of north Africa. A staple at our house is the English Prime Rib rub. Easy to fill the $30 and the ancho is very good and very reasonably priced. 

JRWhitee

I got mine at the publix in Johns Creek, GA.

Cymbaline65

Skiddymarker said:

Buy direct from Penzey's. Over $30 they ship free to the lower 48. I have not had a bad "spice" experience from Penzey's. Check your spice cupboard, along with the Ancho powder, get some Mexican oregano, some Turkish oregano. You like heat the Berbere is awesome and true taste of north Africa. A staple at our house is the English Prime Rib rub. Easy to fill the $30 and the ancho is very good and very reasonably priced. 

I need to find an excuse to head to Roswell to their brick and mortar location for no other reason than to check out all the cool stuff.

JethroVA

kroger has it labeled as Kroger brand in the cheaper tin container spice section. I was looking in the more expensive glass container section and it was surprisingly not there.

SmokeyPitt

There is a Trader Joes a couple of doors down from Penzy's as well.  If you go there, get cookie butter.  

Warning:  Highly addictive. 

Cymbaline65

Ruh roh, SmokeyPitt... I can see no good coming from such a concoction!

fishlessman

dont know if i can find the powder here but can get the pasilla and the ancho pods, the ancho makes a nice snack, kinda like a pepper jerky and slightly chewy like raisn

Focker

Egglegal_Alien said:

@Focker I see you disagreed with my post, just wanted to let you know I'm not making this up, I share this pic in case you're interested:

Ancho chiles, and pasilla chiles are not the same.  You have a bag of two different chiles, essentially a bag of whole chile powder. 

nolaegghead

Austin Egghead said:

Ask grocery store manager to order the McCormick powder. My favorite is Fiesta Bolner out of SA TX. That is the powder featured in the bulk bins at HEB stores. Here is link: http://www.fiestaspices.com/search_results.asp?cx=007611723412574293098:dc3urhwkq5s&cof=FORID:10&ie=UTF-8&q=Ancho+chili+powder&sa=&siteurl=www.fiestaspices.com/index.asp?page=chili_peppers&ref=www.fiestaspices.com/index.asp&ss=10614j9659004j18
The nice thing about buying the whole pod is you will be able to toast and grind what you need.
Penszey's powder is my second choice.

Joan, I bought a small fortune in Fiesta Spices when we were in SA for Meatopia.  They are excellent.