I threw this together for the playtest yesterday. The core of the recipe comes from here, but I had to change things around because of dietary issues. Still, chili isn’t hard. I’m sure that everybody in the universe will call this version of it an abomination, but five people ate it all, so I guess abominations are tasty?
Time to cook: thirty minutes prep; six hours cooking in a crockpot at low.
What you’ll need:
Continue reading Uncle Moe’s Chili For People Who Don’t Make Chili.…nothing elaborate. Browned ground beef, tomato sauce, vinegar, onions, garlic, cumin, chili powder, black beans, simmer for the morning and early afternoon and check around 1 PM or so. That’s when I’ll end up adding whatever else I end up adding, if people want to sing out about how horribly I’m maligning the Sacred Food.
I got the chili, you see. I got plenty of chili: not spicy at all, but tasty enough. And I’d have to get the Fritos anyway; so if there’s other stuff that I should be adding to said pie – yes, cheese, obviously – that I can pick up tomorrow, then I’m happy to listen to your suggestions as to what those things should be. My only concern is that it should all be easy to put together. I don’t want to spend two hours in the kitchen when I’m essentially jazzing up my leftovers.
Gonna slow cook this one, because I got time to do it. Nothing overly fancy; ground beef, beans, onions, cumin, tomato paste, whatever spices I have floating around, corn if I still have some. Should be a thing. I’m pretty ecumenical about all of this stuff.
(Via Instapundit) According to the Iowa state legislature, that is. Which is no doubt a distraction from the business of the state legislature; but dammit, it’s bacon. Seriously, can anybody argue with any of this?
WHEREAS, the people of Maine have lobster, the people of Idaho grow great potatoes, and the folks of Texas make great chili, we Iowans have bacon —— nature’s perfect food; and
WHEREAS, whether plain or apple-wood smoked, whether store-bought or artisan-made, bacon is a meat for any meal; and
WHEREAS, as America’s top pork producer, Iowa stands tall as the nation’s source of high-quality bacon…
Well. OK. People are going to argue about the chili. I’m very ecumenical about chili, myself – but that just means that nobody trusts me in either this or the BBQ wars…
Moe Lane
I know that this is going to be rank heresy and everything, but speaking as somebody who doesn’t actually come from a region with a BBQ tradition… it all tastes about the same to me. Chili, too.
There. I said it. I was tired of living the lie.
Moe Lane
PS: Look, I’ll happily eat both BBQ and chili until I burst. But I’m not detecting the variations that I’m apparently supposed to be experiencing, here.
PPS: All that being said; suggestions for good BBQ
