"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
...
> Mr Libido Incognito provided:
>
>> Superbowl Chili Soup
> <snip>
>> Comments: No matter where you're watching the game, and no matter how
>> many snacks and munchies are laying around, there's just nothing like the
>> taste of chili to pep up the plays.
>
> I first started making chili for football games about seven or eight years
> ago, when I was deployed to Kuwait for most of the football season several
> years in a row, and the games would begin showing on television in the
> middle of the night. Chili was a little taste of home, and watching the
> football games from halfway around the world helped the time go by. So
> now
> I make chili for every Super Bowl, even if I'm not watching it with
> anybody
> else.
>
> The chili recipe I used in those days was quite simple: Just a bunch of
> ground beef, several cans of Ro-Tel (amazingly available in the markets),
> a
> can or two of kidney beans, cumin, and several spoonfuls of a very potent
> chile-garlic paste. (I haven't seen that particular chile-garlic paste
> since
> then. It wasn't Sriracha; it was much dryer than that. Its consistency was
> something like damp sand; when you scooped out a spoonful, the depression
> didn't fill in.)
>
> Nowadays, I've got dozens of different recipes for chili, and I pretty
> much
> like them all. If I'm making chili for a football game, I choose by whim.
>
> Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane!
>
> Bob
Was beer allowed in Kuwait (for you and other Americans?)
Dee Dee