I made grown up chili for my son's school's "chili cook off." He
comes home from school today to inform me that only the kids will be
voting. Of course, some kids eat some pretty hot stuff these days.
Lots of red chilies in there, cumin, black pepper, salt, a little
garlic, lean bottom round fried in rendered beef fat, and long, slow
simmered with red kidney beans. No tomato, no onion.
If I'd have known only the kids were voting, I'd have used a few less
chiles, but I really wasn't so much trying to win as to make something
yummy.

--Bryan