Posted: 6/27/2004 10:34:35 AM EDT
| I went to the grocery store this morning and spent $36 and change on the component parts, then came home and got to choppin' and dicin' and whatnot --I love my Henckels knives, by the way. Now my whole house smells like chile peppers and that kickass ancho chili powder I got from Whole Foods. |
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I use to spend like $30-50 on Chilli until I discovered that if you buy some of this prepackaged mix like Carol Shelby it taste about as good at 1/4th the costs. A package of the spices, a can of tomatoes, a can of beer and some stew meat can get you some damn good chilli for under $10. For $30 or $40 you can make it taste a little better. Of course I am getting older and screwing around with things doesn't quite have the appeal as it did 20 years ago. |
Here's the recipe I'm trying:
found at: www.topsecretrecipes.com/recipes/soupnaz2.htm |
baking? in the oven? |
found at: www.topsecretrecipes.com/recipes/soupnaz2.htm Thanks for the info, let us know how it goes? |
Not to hijack, but get a set of Wustoff's, and you'll wonder what you saw in Henckels, I promise! |
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Get a set of Cold Steel, you'll wonder why you spent money on anything else. Plus the name is so fuggin mall ninja tactical! 
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Yes Verbal, in California. That's right. I bake it in the oven on low heat for six hours. This way the stew beef slow cooks and tenderizes, soaking in the chili goodness, instead of browning in a pan and hardening into little globules of industrial granite.
Not really a dinner pic, since these are leftovers, but I made a small effort. As requested: 
I've used Wusthofs before, at a friend's house, and was suitably impressed. Could be a future purchase.
Indeed. |
There's nothin wrong with Hormel... ...at least, nothing that a whole lot of Tobasco and some steak pepper mix can't cure. I shake on some kind of blackened steak pepper mix and a good 2-3 tablespoons of Tobasco before I light up the heat... Stir, cook, enjoy with crackers. 5 hours later, take some pepto or something to quell the stomach. |
I always prefer homemade to store bought. And I like it HOT!!!|
I got a kick ass chili recipe out of the Washington Post about 20 years ago...some chili cookoff winner in Texas, iirc. It uses ground beef, veal, lamb, chunk steak and chunk venison IF you have it handy. It uses 3 bottles of Dos Equis beer, and about 6 different kinds of peppers, depending on how hot you want it. It's VERY good, but of course, I've long since lost the recipe, so I have to try to do it by memory...so it seems to taste different every time I make it. Added up, it's easily $30 worth of stuff to make it. |