[CH] chili fest

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My wife and I recently had a little cookfest and a buffet dinner
featuring chili and fixin's.

The first dish was French Onion Soup which was split up and finished
three ways. The first portion had the traditional broiled crouton and
melted cheese. The second one had canned chunky salsa picante stirred
in. Dynamite! The rest was used in the chili and the beans.

The chili itself was a very mild Texas chili: all meat, no beans, no
tomatoes. There were lots of fixin's to heat it up though. It was quite
thick so people were encouraged to stir in some onion soup if they
liked a soupier chili. That worked nicely.

I did up a frying pan of sauteed mixed jalapenos, bell peppers and
onions for mixing into or garnishing the chili.

Also a chipotle hot sauce with a single habanero thrown in for an extra
measure of heat.

And a pot of stewed tomatoes with chilies, onion, celery, and
Italian herbs; it was about Ro-Tel hot.

The beans were cooked, drained and then re-heated them in some onion
soup with a heaping tablespoon of cumin added in. They turned out great.

For starches we had mushroom rice and buttered fettuccine noodles.

We also had a crock pot pork chop cacciatore.

It was interesting to see how people combined these dishes to make their
meal. Everything went with everything else. Chili with beans, chili on
fettuccine, beanless chili strewn with fried peppers and laced with
chipotle-habanero sauce, cacciatore on rice, you name it, we tried it.

And leftover onion soup+cacciatore+chili+beans+chopped noodles makes a
heluva soup the next day.

I think I finally solved the beans and tomatoes controversies!

Cheers

Jim, in Yellowknife

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