primitives discuss chili

[JohnnyReb]

My wife makes a pretty good run of the mill everyday chili. It'll warm you up in winter and taste pretty good....and it's filling.

BUT her family likes for her to make her "special" chili for family get togethers. I don't know why it couldn't be used as a renewable energy source. You could use it as a  heat source for the boilers instead of coal....and air pollution wouldn't be a problem either. Burning all that natural gas it gives off would just be another heat source....any chance you could consider sweat "distilled water"?

[BlueStateSaint]

I make mine with 50/50 Elk Burger and Beef. Diced tomatoes and light red kidney beens. And Lowry's chili seasoning.
Oyster crackers and Fritos on the side with chopped onions and shredded cheddar cheese.

It may not be Texas style, or win any blue ribbons, but my two gallon crock pot never last until lunch in the construction trailer.

On the last project, three other yahoos thought mine was OK, but their's was better, so we had a cook off. After mine was gone, then the latecomers ate some of the others swill.

The results dictate the popularity . . . When my wife asks me if whatever she cooked was good, I respond with a question (Yeah, I know that you're not supposed to answer a question with a question . . . ) that goes like this--"Do you see any left?  No?  Then it was good."

I clean off my plates every meal.   (I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night. )

[Ballygrl]

Heading out to the grocery store in a bit, wrote everyone's suggestions down, I'll end up with CCC Conservative Cave Chili, I'll take a pic of it in the pot.

[NHSparky]

Yup--making chili for dinner as well.  Perfect weather for it here too.  Cold, raining, crappy.  Almost fireplace weather, all we need is some snow on the ground, which they're supposedly getting up on Mount Washington.

[franksolich]

Heading out to the grocery store in a bit, wrote everyone's suggestions down, I'll end up with CCC Conservative Cave Chili, I'll take a pic of it in the pot.

Why are you making chili today?

Is it cold in New Jersey or something?

[BlueStateSaint]

Why are you making chili today?

Is it cold in New Jersey or something?

Coach, I don't know how chilly it is in NJ, but it's 49 on my piece of rented real estate, north of the Mohawk and west of the Hudson.

[franksolich]

Coach, I don't know how chilly it is in NJ, but it's 49 on my piece of rented real estate, north of the Mohawk and west of the Hudson.

It's 51 here, pretty pleasant.

Not yet what I'd call chili-making weather.

[BlueStateSaint]

It's 51 here, pretty pleasant.

Not yet what I'd call chili-making weather.

It's also rainy here, and somewhat windy. 

I don't think it will crimp my cantoring assignment today; I managed to convince the music director into doing Pope Blessed John Paul II's favorite hymn, as a Communion meditation.

[Ballygrl]

Why are you making chili today?

Is it cold in New Jersey or something?

Well it's a little chilly out, but my Husband loves chili, so after reading the thread I thought I'd make him a nice pot of it with the chili bowls made out of bread. He hangs out with the guys on Sun. to watch sports, so when he comes home he'll walk into a warm house with the smell of chili everywhere and he'll be thrilled LOL.

[franksolich]

Well it's a little chilly out, but my Husband loves chili, so after reading the thread I thought I'd make him a nice pot of it with the chili bowls made out of bread. He hangs out with the guys on Sun. to watch sports, so when he comes home he'll walk into a warm house with the smell of chili everywhere and he'll be thrilled LOL.

If only nadin treated hubby that way.....

[Ballygrl]

Coach, I don't know how chilly it is in NJ, but it's 49 on my piece of rented real estate, north of the Mohawk and west of the Hudson.

The outside thermometer says it's 48 here, I think it's supposed to be in the 60's today, but we had to turn the heat on in the house , we turned it on for a few days a couple of weeks ago then it got hot and humid so we went back to the AC, but Fall is in the air.

[franksolich]

The outside thermometer says it's 48 here, I think it's supposed to be in the 60's today, but we had to turn the heat on in the house , we turned it on for a few days a couple of weeks ago then it got hot and humid so we went back to the AC, but Fall is in the air.

Yeah, I noticed for the first time this morning that Nebraska's starting to look like Connecticut in autumn, what with all the leaves on trees changing color.  On my way to town, I felt as if I were driving the expressway to New Haven, it was all so New-Englandish-in-autumn.

[Ballygrl]

If only nadin treated hubby that way.....

My husband is so sweet, he's not emotional at all, doesn't express his feelings, but he said to me a few weeks ago that he's so lucky to have a wife like me because the guys he watches sports with? their wives bitch at them all the time about watching sports whereas I view it as his day to get away with everything.

[NHSparky]

Well it's a little chilly out, but my Husband loves chili, so after reading the thread I thought I'd make him a nice pot of it with the chili bowls made out of bread. He hangs out with the guys on Sun. to watch sports, so when he comes home he'll walk into a warm house with the smell of chili everywhere and he'll be thrilled LOL.

I'm okay with the bread bowl thing, as long as you use the right kind of bread for the right stuff.  I mean, sourdough is awesome with chowders and other soups, but chili, not so much.

Oh--and chili is on here.  Hamburger and sirloin cubes browned, onion, pintos, black beans, can of RoTel, can of diced, and a package of Caroll Shelby's.  Market Basket does NOT know the meaning of the word, "beans."  They have refried, they have baked, but damned if they had any no shit, unspiced, regular old kidney, pinto, or black beans.  Seriously.  Pretty sad that I have to go over to Hannaford's for beans.

And cornbread, of course.  Can't have chili without cornbread.

[Ballygrl]

I'm okay with the bread bowl thing, as long as you use the right kind of bread for the right stuff.  I mean, sourdough is awesome with chowders and other soups, but chili, not so much.

Oh--and chili is on here.  Hamburger and sirloin cubes browned, onion, pintos, black beans, can of RoTel, can of diced, and a package of Caroll Shelby's.  Market Basket does NOT know the meaning of the word, "beans."  They have refried, they have baked, but damned if they had any no shit, unspiced, regular old kidney, pinto, or black beans.  Seriously.  Pretty sad that I have to go over to Hannaford's for beans.

And cornbread, of course.  Can't have chili without cornbread.

I just bought the regular kaiser rolls, but when you add the oil and garlic to the inside when you remove the inside of the bread it gives it a nice flavor.

I found something called 2 alarm chili kit, it comes with packets of paprika, onion/garlic, cumin, masa, salt, chili pepper and red pepper, and you can control it so you can make mild to hot chili depending on how much you add of the spices.

[Splashdown]

I made chili here to. Something about this thread...

[Rebel]

So, no one uses butter beans and black-eyed peas? 

[Ballygrl]

Um, no Rebel!

Here it is, it's simmering now:

[Rebel]

Um, no Rebel!

Here it is, it's simmering now:

That looks damn good, Bally! Make it hot, now. 

[franksolich]

Oops, she put tomatoes in it.

For the tomato flavor, best to use tomato sauce or tomato paste, not tomatoes.

[Splashdown]

Here's mine today. Sorry frank: peppers, onions and one can of diced tomatoes. Light red kidneys, dark red kidneys and black beans. One long hot pepper for heat (I cook for my wife and daughters, after all--I add more heat to mine by the bowl.)



One time, I had chili over spaghetti in St. Louis. That's how I serve it now, with some raw onion on top with shredded cheese.

I'm a yankee, but I've had no complaints about my chili...

[Chris_]

If you wanted vegetables, you should made a salad.

[franksolich]

Here's mine today. Sorry frank: peppers, onions and one can of diced tomatoes.

Well, whatever rocks one's chair, rows one's boat, pushes one's buttons, turns one on.

Despite my distaste for cooked tomatoes (fresh tomatoes in sandwiches and salads are mandatory) and chopped peppers, if someone were a guest of mine here, and wanted it this way, that's the way it would be given them.

But if offered it myself, I'd sit there--as I oftentimes have--and carefully pick out the pieces of tomato and pepper, putting them on a nearby saucer or something.

I must have a sensitive gullet or something; to me, trying to down slimy cooked tomatoes seems the same as trying to swallow a live eel.

On the other hand, chili must have tomatoes, and the solution to that is using tomato sauce or tomato paste.

[Ballygrl]

That looks damn good, Bally! Make it hot, now. 

UGH! I went a little overboard with the Red Pepper packet, I thought adding half would be good enough, it's kind of hot though, my Husband will love it but I'm going to add a little more sour cream to mine to hopefully cool it down.

[Ballygrl]

Oops, she put tomatoes in it.

For the tomato flavor, best to use tomato sauce or tomato paste, not tomatoes.

I did use a can of sauce but I also added the diced tomatoes. And OMG! splashdown's Chili looks really authentic.