Chili time!

[LVGaryD]

Made some chili in the old crockpot yesterday. I glanced at a recipe, then quickly decided to wing it without one. I really don't like beans in my chili and neither does Ryan, so this is what I came up with:

I browned 2.5 pounds of  ground, lean black angus beef and one large diced onion.

Then while that was browning, I trhough all of this stuff into my huge crockpot: one large can of crushed tomatoes, two cans of diced tomatoes, one of which had jalapenos in it, one can of beef stock, one can of corn, a bunch crushed red peppers, two and a half tablespoons of of McCormick chili spice, two tablespoons of cumin.

After the meat and onions browned, I tossed the concoction into the crockpot. Cooked for two and a half hours on high, then added the cup of barley. One more hour on high, then two more on low heat. Damn, laddies- that right there was some good stuff, and I will likely eat it for the next month.

[pope of vegas]

We all want to know if the crockpot was clean when you started.
  Or did you just add to last years batch???

[LVGaryD]

We all want to know if the crockpot was clean when you started.
  Or did you just add to last years batch???

Yes it was very clean. Made pork and sauerkraut several times since I last made chili. And sauerkraut and chili of together real nice!

[NIATROSS]

cannot be called chili without beans 

the sheriff of rockridge will have you arrested

[C10hitch]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/recipe/chorizo-bacon-chili-recipe-nick-mangold-20566644                                                                                                        Saw this on GMA this week and I thought it sounded good.......... bacon in chili who da thunk it?

[careless hal]

It looks to me like you were making sloppy joes!  You have to have beans, unless you are making it Cincinnati style, which I think is served over pasta.  Made white bean chile last Friday.  Normally I would use 3 kinds of beans in chile: dark red kidney beans,pinto beans and black beans.  I don't use a crock pot. 

Beanless chile!

[The Skipper]

cannot be called chili without beans 

the sheriff of rockridge will have you arrested

 

It looks to me like you were making sloppy joes!  You have to have beans, unless you are making it Cincinnati style, which I think is served over pasta.  Made white bean chile last Friday.  Normally I would use 3 kinds of beans in chile: dark red kidney beans,pinto beans and black beans.  I don't use a crock pot. 

Beanless chile!

 

[The Skipper]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/recipe/chorizo-bacon-chili-recipe-nick-mangold-20566644                                                                                                        Saw this on GMA this week and I thought it sounded good.......... bacon in chili who da thunk it?

Oh yeah, bacon goes with EVERYTHING 

[LVGaryD]

Just like pizza, you Chicago guys apparently know nothing about good chili. 

Here is the truth about chili. Note the following quote: "ask any Texan and they’ll tell you that putting beans in chili is an absolute travesty. In Texas, a bowl full of beans has no right calling itself chili, even when ground meat is thrown in."

Read more here and learn all about real chili.

 

And here is all you need to know about real pizza.

 

[careless hal]

Here is the truth about chili. Note the following quote: "ask any Texan and they’ll tell you that putting beans in chili is an absolute travesty. In Texas, a bowl full of beans has no right calling itself chili, even when ground meat is thrown in."

I knew it was Bush's fault!  What they know about fine dining in Texas you could write on the back of a postage stamp.

I had pizza in Ohio once.  They put salami or some mystery meat on it.  Tasted like shit!   There are 5 pizza places within 5 miles of my place that have better pizza than any dung they hand out in the Buckeye State.

http://ednjoes.com/Our_Menu.html

[pope of vegas]

Ohio Pizza !!!!   Are you kidding me?

   This guy eats 1 month old chilli and wants to be a food critic about Chicago pizza !!!   

[Jeremy]

Really?  Anyone cared about what he had to say about food after mentioning he put corn in his chili?

[AmyHollar]

Really?  Anyone cared about what he had to say about food after mentioning he put corn in his chili?

Ma put corn in everything when I was growing up.....especially pancakes.

[Jeremy]

Ma put corn in everything when I was growing up.....especially pancakes.

That wasn't healthy.  It is worse now with corn and soy being in almost everything we eat either directly or indirectly. 

[pope of vegas]

Really?  Anyone cared about what he had to say about food after mentioning he put corn in his chili?

   Good point.