Nothing fancy here. Just my regular chili recipe in the crock pot for tomorrow night + 30 minutes before serving an iron skillet of cornbread.
1 lb. ground beef or venison
1/2 pkg. each of pinto + red beans
1 lg. can Ro-Tel tomatoes + chilies
Garlic, Cumin, Chili Powder, Paprika
1 diced onion
Cook overnight + through tomorrow on low. Supper is done at the end of the day + all day the house smells like Heaven. Really appreciated right now with all this icy weather.
P.S, Bill ,you already know this but if you're feeling adventurous, add some Smoky Mo's BBQ sauce. I works great for "plain" beans but really enhances the chili.

Sounds heavenly, Randy!

I like to cube steak up then brown it well, Crisp up some bacon in 1” pieces or you can use pork belly. Caramelize the peppers and onions then cook up with the spices of my mood for a no bean chili. It is amazing.

Anything goes. I have yet to have a bowl of chili that I didn't like. I DO know that many traditionalists abhor the idea of beans in chili. To each his own. Personally, I like them + sometimes I even add corn. C'mon, Live!

I like the beans on the side -- pinto, of course. And if the mood strikes you, you can mix them up.

I have had success turning baked beans into a good chili. It sounds weird but somehow it works. Baked beans are quite sweet but if you add the heat of some strong chili pods and spice it right, it is amazing. A good amount of bacon too. You would have to taste it to believe it. you can balance the sweetness with the hot and earthy spices.

Chili is basically a soup. I put beans in mine plus a lot of diced tomatoes.

Lots of tomatoes are a given!

Randy, looks elegantly simple. I like to cube up and brown chuck roast like Boomie, and serve the pintos on the side like lavaca but it is all good -- and particularly so "when the weather outside is frightful, and a fire is so delightful."

I made some pheasant stew last week and it was fantastic but it's all gone.

I've been inspired by all the chili posts so I'm doing something with that later this week.

The wife prepp'd a mountain goat roast yesterday for enchiladas tonight so I won't cook until Tuesday or Wednesday.

Thanks for all the ideas.

Zeke

Ann,

Sacrilege. Beans can be in proximity with chili, but cannot be included unless properly introduced.

Joking of course.

Another pet peeve -- ground meat in chili.

Ground beef has no place in chili.
That is called a Sloppy Joe.

I've made chili with pulled and ground meat. It all eats the same to me. Shanks are great for stuff like chili.

I've even made chili out of squirrels.

I was reading on a facebook hunting/game meat cooking group where people had great success with muskrat chili, bobcat chili, etc. There were a few complainers who did the 'eww, I won't eat that'. I'd eat cat and muskrat over possum any day but honestly, meat is meat, stewed, ground, roasted or grilled.

Real Texas Chili doesn't have BEANS!

Moose or muskrat, as long as it is not ground up but cubed or pulled.

Well, Lavaca + Hogbreath, I said going in it was going to be sacreligious to some, quite frankly, I like beans in my chili. BTW, are you aware of the birth of the term (other than the pepper in old Mexico)? This came from the cattle drives in the late 1800s. When a cow would drop from any number of ailments, the cook snatched it up + made supper, using beaucoup amounts of chili to hide the taste of the sick, +/or rotten meat. And of course the cowboys staple; beans on the side.Not so hard to believe when you consider that "mixed drinks" started during prohibition to disguise the taste of rotten alcohol.

Randy, for the better part of my life, "chili" meant Nalley's canned chili -- made with "hangabur" and pintos. I survived on this stuff, mac and cheese, and PB&J sammiches in college. So it will always have a place in my heart.
I will make a batch of yours here real soon -- after I finish up the Mississippi pork roast I made in the Crockpot yesterday.

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made with "hangabur"

I guess I had better not move to Texas. I make my chili with ground critter AND pintos! The horror. Now green chile (not chili) stew must have cubed critter; no ground in that!

Armadillo Chili?
Comes with its own bowl.

Ground meat does not belong in chili. The beans are up to the user.

I can see the room for Spam chili.
Cube and fry the spam and then the rest is up to you instead of bacon, then add your moose or marmoset.

Spam! Now that's just downright nasty. You know that for years here in Austin we had an event called Spamarama which included recipes, spam tossing for distance, spam throwing for effect, ad nauseum; no spam misuse was negleted.

Bill, speaking of what's in the crock pot. This afternoon I started a boston butt boneless pork roast covered with "Woody's" cook in BBQ sauce + 2 cups of water. Can't be easier than that. Cook all night + all day tomorrow + by tomorrow night it will just fall apart. It is great with mashed potatoes + the leftover woody's juice makes a very nice gravy.

https://youtu.be/_bW4vEo1F4E

Properly rendered spam that had been browned does have a place in certain foods. I only like it properly cooked as stated and in Hawaiian pasta salad or with greasy spoon breakfast foods and dishes that are like adding pancetta.

BTW, the internet use of the word spam was thought up by the internet moguls of today due to their college days + watching Monty Python.

Didn't mean to cause a stir. Each to his own. Personally, I don't put beans in my chili.

And as to Ann's comment about squirrels, I used to make a lot of goose chili when I had a lot of geese. But you can use goose meat for anything for which you'd use beef.

Not to mention venison. I raised my boys (+ their high school friends) on venison chili. When the word went out at the high school that I was making a pot of venison chili I would have at least 17 hungry teenagers show up for supper. And you know how teenage boys can put it away. That's been 25 years ago + I still those boys on occasion at the grocery store + they still all call me Dad. A good feeling.

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Originally posted by Hogbreath:
Real Texas Chili doesn't have BEANS!

Correct.

If one wants to discuss making, eating, judging or comparing "chili," then the topic does not include beans--of any sort.

True chili is meat, peppers and water. Plus some seasoning.

However, if one wishes to include bean in their chili, then the correct topic would be "chili with beans."

well, I knew it would bring a reaction. Folks are touchy on this subject. I suppose the only thing to draw more controversy would be to have a nxxxer come into your church + piss in the font.

Randy,

Actually, the only thing that could cause more controversy was your last comment. I'm sorry, but I can't let it pass. Not appropriate.

Since I am not in Texas, I will give you the only US approved chili recipe; the one used by the Army. I won't list the quantities since it feeds 100.
Ground beef
Canned tomatoes
KIDNEY beans. NO pinto beans!!!
Onion
Chili powder
Cumin
Sugar
Salt
And; always served over rice.
And this is the way I make it too.

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Originally posted by Nitro Express:

quote:

Originally posted by Hogbreath:
Real Texas Chili doesn't have BEANS!

Correct.

If one wants to discuss making, eating, judging or comparing "chili," then the topic does not include beans--of any sort.

True chili is meat, peppers and water. Plus some seasoning.

However, if one wishes to include bean in their chili, then the correct topic would be "chili with beans."

No tomatoes?

I like tomatoes in some chili.

Yep-stewed or diced for me! But then I also like beans, various peppers, onions, meat. . . . . Damn, I'm hungry just thinking about it. Sorry-I'm not a purist when it comes to chili. I like your thinking and your recipe dcpd-similar to my wife's!!

Years ago, there was a chili emporium in Austin. Can't remember the name of the place and I'm sure they are no longer around, but it was good and you could get whatever version of chili you wanted there.

Lavaca, I think you're talking about "The Texas Chili Parlor" at 16th + San Jacinto. + yes they have a plethora of good chili. Even Guy Clark mentioned them in one of his songs; + yes to the best of my knowledge they are still there.

Make chili any way you want, just add tomato juice and you will love your chili more!