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  I've recently moved to the DC metro from New Mexico (Las Cruces).  And I
  have been trying to find a good Mexican restaurant in the area that uses
  green chile in their recipes.

Well, you'll have a hard time with this one.  Anita's is NM, style, but not
very good IMO.  You get better food, although a more Texas style, (not that
Las Cruces is that far from Texas) at the Austin Grill on Wisconsin Ave in
DC (or South Austin Grill in VA).  Their green sauce is quite good (the
stuff over the enchiladas, etc. is even better than the stuff on the tables
for chips), and they both use plenty of green chile and can make the food
HOT.

As for getting your own chiles, I have two suggestions.  One is to do what I
do and grow your own.  DC is actually a decent climate for growing good
green.  However, it's a little late in the summer to be starting on that.
The other alternative is to mail order from

  Hatch Chile Express 
  PO Box 350
  Hatch, New Mexico 87937
  (505) 267-3226

You can mail order fresh this time of year and frozen out of season.  I'd
suggest ordering fresh, unroasted chiles and roast them yourself (they'll
travel better that way).

Larry
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