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I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this one...
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"ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
...
> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>
> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this one...
> --
> Cheers
> Chatty Cathy
>
> Food is an important part of a balanced diet. - Fran Lebowitz

Darn - I'm first and I've never made chili in my life. Is that ironic or
what?

<grin>

Guess I'll just have to pass on the hat then.

MJB

MJB wrote:
> "ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
> ...
>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>>
>> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this one...
>
> Darn - I'm first and I've never made chili in my life. Is that ironic or
> what?
>
> <grin>

<lol> What better time to start?
>
> Guess I'll just have to pass on the hat then.

Nah, you 'owned up' so you get to choose a TFH. Enjoy it while making
your first pot of chili

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ChattyCathy wrote on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:23:52 +0200:

C> MJB wrote:
??>> "ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
??>> ...
??>>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
??>>>
??>>> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or
??>>> beef?' for this one...
??>>
??>> Darn - I'm first and I've never made chili in my life. Is
??>> that ironic or what?
??>>
??>> <grin>

C> <lol> What better time to start?
??>>
??>> Guess I'll just have to pass on the hat then.

C> Nah, you 'owned up' so you get to choose a TFH. Enjoy it
C> while making your first pot of chili

There might well have been a way to indicate two choices. I
usually use turkey but sometimes chicken and either can be
ground or cut small based on how inspiration strikes me. It's
the same for beans: inspiration tho' never *in* Cincinatti
Chili.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

"kilikini" wrote:
>
> I've never made it either! �I could never stand the stuff. �
> I don't care if it has beans in, ground beef, shredded beef,
> what have you. �It's the chili powder I don't like.

It's probably that *salt laden* el cheapo taste-in-ass commercial
chili powder that most everyone uses. Try with Penzey's no-salt added
chili powder, and use my recipe, you'll love chili made with
chocolate.

Sheldon wrote:
>Try with Penzey's no-salt added
> chili powder, and use my recipe, you'll love chili made with
> chocolate.
>
Heh... or you could make your own (chili powder and/or chocolate)
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James Silverton wrote:

>
> There might well have been a way to indicate two choices. I usually use
> turkey but sometimes chicken and either can be ground or cut small based
> on how inspiration strikes me. It's the same for beans: inspiration tho'
> never *in* Cincinatti Chili.

Looks like you're in the minority (so far)...

FWIW, I like my chili with (diced) beef the most and pork is a close
second. And I add beans to mine.

:-P

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Chatty Cathy

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On Feb 19, 10:15 am, ChattyCathy > wrote:
> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>
> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this one...

I make mine without meat, which means maybe I don't make chili, just
spicy tomato and kidney beans.

maxine in ri

ChattyCathy wrote:
>
> Sheldon wrote:
> >Try with Penzey's no-salt added
> > chili powder, and use my recipe, you'll love chili made with
> > chocolate.
> >
> Heh... or you could make your own (chili powder and/or chocolate)
> --
> Cheers
> Chatty Cathy - who has a sudden yearning for mole sauce....
>
> Food is an important part of a balanced diet. - Fran Lebowitz

Rehydrate dried chili peppers of the varieties you prefer and run them
through a food mill to extract the pulp / paste.

maxine in ri wrote:
> On Feb 19, 10:15 am, ChattyCathy > wrote:
>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>>
>> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this one...
>
> I make mine without meat, which means maybe I don't make chili, just
> spicy tomato and kidney beans.
>
> maxine in ri

I was referring to:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-b...onary&va=chili

2 a : a thick sauce of meat and chilies

Apologies; in future I will endeavor to Be More Specific (BMS)
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ChattyCathy wrote:
> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>
> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this one...


No question about Y/N tomatoes???

maxine in ri wrote:

> On Feb 19, 10:15 am, ChattyCathy > wrote:
>
> >http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>
> > I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this one...
>
> I make mine without meat, which means maybe I don't make chili, just
> spicy tomato and kidney beans.


I've made "vegetarian chili" (I have vegan friends), you can put in
all sortsa stuff: carrots, corn, mushrooms, diced potatoes...it's
pretty tasty actually.


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"zxcvbob" > wrote in message
...
>
> ChattyCathy wrote:
>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>>
>> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this
>> one...
>
>
> No question about Y/N tomatoes???

YES to tomatoes, but just a little. Either pass one large, ripe tomato over
the pot, or add one diced roma tomato per four pounds of beef.

James Silverton wrote:
> ChattyCathy wrote on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:23:52 +0200:
>
> C> MJB wrote:
> ??>> "ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
> ??>> ...
> ??>>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
> ??>>>
> ??>>> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or
> ??>>> beef?' for this one...
> ??>>
> ??>> Darn - I'm first and I've never made chili in my life. Is
> ??>> that ironic or what?
> ??>>
> ??>> <grin>
>
> C> <lol> What better time to start?
> ??>>
> ??>> Guess I'll just have to pass on the hat then.
>
> C> Nah, you 'owned up' so you get to choose a TFH. Enjoy it
> C> while making your first pot of chili
>
> There might well have been a way to indicate two choices. I usually use
> turkey but sometimes chicken and either can be ground or cut small based
> on how inspiration strikes me. It's the same for beans: inspiration tho'
> never *in* Cincinatti Chili.

Since I always have the "5-way" I just go ahead and
put the beans in it. No sense dirtying another pot.
Same with regular chili. I always have beans so why
not put them in it instead of serving separately? I
guess if I were making it for guests who were Texans
I'd, perhaps, serve the beans separately. Maybe. ;-)

Kate


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Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

ChattyCathy wrote:

> James Silverton wrote:
>
>>
>> There might well have been a way to indicate two choices. I usually
>> use turkey but sometimes chicken and either can be ground or cut small
>> based on how inspiration strikes me. It's the same for beans:
>> inspiration tho' never *in* Cincinatti Chili.
>
>
> Looks like you're in the minority (so far)...
>
> FWIW, I like my chili with (diced) beef the most and pork is a close
> second. And I add beans to mine.

To me "chili" means the old-fashioned beef kind.
And since I grew up in Pittsburgh and my mother always
made it with ground beef (we didn't know about any
other way back in those days) that's what I do and what
I like. Now I wouldn't object to eatin' the Texas
version, or any other version, but to me chili is what
I grew up with. Now I do make "green chili" sometimes
using pork but to me that's green chili stew and not
really "chili". So I said I only use beef in chili in
the survey. I've tried "white chilis" with chicken
but don't care much for them.

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

cybercat wrote:
> "zxcvbob" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>> ChattyCathy wrote:
>>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>>>
>>> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this
>>> one...
>>
>>
>> No question about Y/N tomatoes???
>
> YES to tomatoes, but just a little. Either pass one large, ripe
> tomato over the pot, or add one diced roma tomato per four pounds of
> beef.

So, when you pass the tomato over the beef, do you sing incantations?

O who doesn't like anything spicy!

zxcvbob wrote:
>
> ChattyCathy wrote:
>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>>
>> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this
>> one...
>
>
> No question about Y/N tomatoes???

You need a Y/N for tomatoes?

I'll take it under advisement <lol>
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"ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
...
> MJB wrote:
>> "ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

>> Darn - I'm first and I've never made chili in my life. Is that ironic or
>> what?
>>
>> <grin>
>
> <lol> What better time to start?

Sometime later maybe I've got pad thai on the menu for tonight. I even
grew the bean sprouts special...

>>
>> Guess I'll just have to pass on the hat then.
>
> Nah, you 'owned up' so you get to choose a TFH.

Guess I'll go with the 'feed cap' then. I'll let you figure-out which one
that is - it will also be an indication of whether you're a city girl or a
country girl.

> Enjoy it while making your first pot of chili

See, that's part of the problem with chili - it comes in 'pots' and uses
recipes that requires 'pounds' of beans and 'sides' of meat and 'bushels' of
peppers - I like to cook in a one quart pan.

<grin>

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"kilikini" > wrote in message
...
>>
> I've never made it either! I could never stand the stuff. I don't care
> if it has beans in, ground beef, shredded beef, what have you. It's the
> chili powder I don't like. LOL. :~)
>
> kili

I like chili powder just fine - I use a lot of it in my 'mexican' cooking.
It just that 'chili' (with or without frijoles) is not so favorite a food
that I'm willing to go to the trouble to make a 'pot' of it. Despite having
all the ingrediants readily at hand.

<shrug>

I probably only go through two or three cans of commercial chili a year
anyway.


MJB

"MJB" > wrote

> Guess I'll go with the 'feed cap' then. I'll let you figure-out which one
> that is - it will also be an indication of whether you're a city girl or a
> country girl.

I wondered who beat me out for the hat only to say they
don't make chili, no way, no how!

nancy

MJB wrote:

>
> Guess I'll go with the 'feed cap' then. I'll let you figure-out which one
> that is - it will also be an indication of whether you're a city girl or a
> country girl.
>
Hmm. The last time I wore the tiara when I went to feed the hens they
got all upset, so I guess it's not that one.
>
> See, that's part of the problem with chili - it comes in 'pots' and uses
> recipes that requires 'pounds' of beans and 'sides' of meat and 'bushels' of
> peppers - I like to cook in a one quart pan.

Only ONE quart?? Good grief!
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"ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
...
> MJB wrote:
>
>>
>> Guess I'll go with the 'feed cap' then. I'll let you figure-out which
>> one that is - it will also be an indication of whether you're a city girl
>> or a country girl.
>>
> Hmm. The last time I wore the tiara when I went to feed the hens they got
> all upset, so I guess it's not that one.

From the Wikepedia entry 'baseball cap'

"Another version of the baseball cap, worn often-but not exclusively-by
farmers and migrant agricultural workers, is the plastic mesh cap with foam
fronts and a farm feed supply company logo or the like printed on the cap...
it is also known as a "gimme cap" due to its being given away for free as a
method of advertising."


>>
>> See, that's part of the problem with chili - it comes in 'pots' and uses
>> recipes that requires 'pounds' of beans and 'sides' of meat and 'bushels'
>> of peppers - I like to cook in a one quart pan.
>
> Only ONE quart?? Good grief!

I exaggerate for purposes of distinguishing between what a single man cooks
for himself and for a 'feed'. But I just cooked 1 1/2 cups of raw rice with
two cups of water in a covered saucepan for lunch - and that will be enough
rice for at least three meals.

My big pans rarely get used nowdays. The older I get, I just find myself
cooking smaller and smaller quantities....

MJB

"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
. ..
>
> "MJB" > wrote
>
>> Guess I'll go with the 'feed cap' then. I'll let you figure-out which
>> one that is - it will also be an indication of whether you're a city girl
>> or a country girl.
>
> I wondered who beat me out for the hat only to say they
> don't make chili, no way, no how!
>
> nancy
>

I tried to give it back, but CC wouldn't hear of it...

Sorr-eee....

MJB

"MJB" > wrote

> "Nancy Young" > wrote

>> "MJB" > wrote
>>
>>> Guess I'll go with the 'feed cap' then. I'll let you figure-out which
>>> one that is - it will also be an indication of whether you're a city
>>> girl or a country girl.
>>
>> I wondered who beat me out for the hat only to say they
>> don't make chili, no way, no how!

> I tried to give it back, but CC wouldn't hear of it...
>
> Sorr-eee....

Heh, that's okay, I have a couple hats already, I really don't
know where I'd put another.

nancy

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:15:33 +0200, ChattyCathy
> wrote:

>http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>
>I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this one...

Shoot, Cathy.... MCINL. I use beef only, but the other options depend
on my mood. Ground beef & beans, beef chunks with no beans.... you
also forgot about beer/no beer and the dreaded cilantro factor!

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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:45:16 -0500, Kate Connally >
wrote:

>Now I do make "green chili" sometimes
>using pork but to me that's green chili stew and not
>really "chili"

Heh, that's chili verde!

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sf wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:15:33 +0200, ChattyCathy
> > wrote:
>
>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>>
>> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this one...
>
> Shoot, Cathy.... MCINL. I use beef only, but the other options depend
> on my mood. Ground beef & beans, beef chunks with no beans.... you
> also forgot about beer/no beer and the dreaded cilantro factor!
>
*Dreaded* cilantro? - pfffft! Cilantro is great

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sf wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:15:33 +0200, ChattyCathy
> > wrote:
>
>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>>
>> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this one...
>
> Shoot, Cathy.... MCINL. I use beef only, but the other options depend
> on my mood. Ground beef & beans, beef chunks with no beans.... you
> also forgot about beer/no beer and the dreaded cilantro factor!
>

If you can get it, try venison sometime (it's usually too lean, you'll
have to add some fat)

Bob

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:17:48 -0500, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>
>"MJB" > wrote
>
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote
>
>>> "MJB" > wrote
>>>
>>>> Guess I'll go with the 'feed cap' then. I'll let you figure-out which
>>>> one that is - it will also be an indication of whether you're a city
>>>> girl or a country girl.
>>>
>>> I wondered who beat me out for the hat only to say they
>>> don't make chili, no way, no how!
>
>> I tried to give it back, but CC wouldn't hear of it...
>>
>> Sorr-eee....
>
>Heh, that's okay, I have a couple hats already, I really don't
>know where I'd put another.
>
>nancy
>

on your head, bartholomew.

your pal,
ted

ChattyCathy wrote:
> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>
> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this one...

I usually use beans and omit the beef.

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maxine in ri wrote:
> On Feb 19, 10:15 am, ChattyCathy > wrote:
>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/
>>
>> I am going to blame the thread 'Chili....chicken or beef?' for this one...
>
> I make mine without meat, which means maybe I don't make chili, just
> spicy tomato and kidney beans.
>
> maxine in ri
Chickpeas are a good addition in my experience and lima beans aren't bad.

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