Chilli 2543Oh pshaw, on Fri 09 Jun 2006 04:01:46p, No Idea meant to say... Everyone has their version of Chili. This is mine...
Just get a pot and make some chili. Put in ground pork or beef or both or turkey. Put in cubed beef(lean chuck or round or any tasty cut; but make sure it needs to cook for a while; I wouldn't use tenderloin but I've never tried it so...) or pork shoulder if you like. Brown it, or don't brown it. Soften up onions. Add some chili powder and slowly cook in oil for a few minutes add garlic. Add browned meat. Stir. Cook as long as you like. Make sure it is nice and tender. Add extra cumin if you like. I like to add a good dose of Mr. Gouda's hot sauce(the red not yellow stuff). It's hotter than Frank's hot sauce. Mr. Gouda's a Canadian thing. Add canned kidney or frijoles beans or beans of your choice if you like. There that is simple chili. You can get dried chilis and work with those as well. For liquid add tom juice or vegetable juice or wine or beer or beef or chicken stock or water. If you want to thicken use corn flour or whatever like even corn starch; what about corn meal? I've never tried it. Serve with stuff like top with fresh squeezed lime juice, your favourite cheese such as american cheese(you can even melt it under broiler), sour cream; yogurt?. Eat it with tortillas or bread or you can ladle it on top of macaroni and cheese thereby creating a brand new haute cuisine dish called the 'Waterloo County Debris and Cheese'. Ladle it on plain pasta or rice? I tried it; don't like it. Just make some chili then eat it.
Chilli 2545My general recommendations -- light on tomato anything, heavy on a chile powder (note spelling -- a powder that is just the powdered dried...