Ummh, sorry to the mid-westerners here, but flyover country chili does not deserve the name. Maybe hamburger bean soup? Not that it was bad. Just that none of it deserves the title of chili. What can I say. Green chile 4 ever. Runner up red ristra Chile sauce
@FireMonkey , are you declaring a #ChiliWar ? *I'm unarmed, being a Midwesterner who can't eat most of the best ingredients without gastrointestinal distress or embarrassing consequences. 😉 🫠🌱
Represent!
@FireMonkey
Learned about the blasphemy of beans-in-the-chili from my friend from TX...from Midwest and yes, usually ground beef, onions, BEANS😁, & sweet & hot peppers & Roma tomatoes. Not soup but not classic chili as you describe either. We have some decent chili making competitions up here ...get a bit of everything there.
Wondering what goes into yours in addition to the meat?
#chiliwars #cosocooks
@UmbaSaffire
Oh no you don't. I'm not giving out my recipe ... 😆
Suffice to say there are several kinds of chili that will qualify. And yes it's the Texans that get bent about the bean/no bean thing the most. I'm bi-legume, can take it or leave it. Sweet peppers and green peppers are not a thing that qualifies something as chili. You need Chiles. After that, there's a panoplyof things that can be added and may still legitimately be called chili. White bean and chicken w/ green chiles? Yep.
I am partial to ground beef and beans in my chili. My own recipe has several kinds of chiles (dried and fresh), beer, and cocoa... though these days I make it with beans and no beef--which is sacrilege, but so tasty.
@tyghebright I have put all kinds of fun stuff in a "chili" but never beer! Red wine if I felt decadent. 🤣
What type of beer do you use because I want to try that!
@stueytheround @FireMonkey @UmbaSaffire
An amber, usually. Something not too bitter. Dark beers or stouts can be good, too.
You really only need about half a bottle for a large pot.
@tyghebright Well I just happen to live not too far from where they make Doom Bar amber ale! 😁 Thanks Tyghe.
@FireMonkey @UmbaSaffire
@FireMonkey I do add bell peppers *as well* as chili peppers but who is making chili without them?
That's like making chicken soup without the chicken 🤣
@stueytheround @FireMonkey @UmbaSaffire now i want chili
@Beanc just made chili last night😁 @stueytheround @FireMonkey
@stueytheround @UmbaSaffire
One may add red or green bell peppers to disguise the fact that you did not put enough chilies in. If discovered by the judges, you may be marked with demerits, however, and given a bowl of the winning Hot chili to eat until you understand. 😂🥵
@FireMonkey I just bought bird eye and scotch bonnets. We're good to go! The bell peppers are for colour and texture 🤣
@stueytheround @FireMonkey
..lol😅...sounds like torture FireMonkey
(does it count to use homegrown roasted poblanos, hot and sweet banana peppers, jalepenos and sometimes an Anaheim🌶--asking for a friend)😁
@UmbaSaffire @stueytheround
That's a level of marvelous creativity, the combination of sweet, mild and hot peppers, your chili judge gives you a blue ribbon
@FireMonkey ...I'll tell my friend - she will be thrilled! 😁
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@stueytheround
With ya Stuey...lol😅
@stueytheround @UmbaSaffire
All right, that'll work. You got a pass on that one.
RE: my comments on Midwestern chilly - I hesitate to give it the full title of chili. I've had it once before about 30 years ago. When one of my cohort was obligated to cook dinner and he came in with two shopping bags of cans and proceeded to dump them into a big pot and then call it chili. I objected then and I object now.
Chili, green with pork or red with carne - various allowed; ground beef at minimum, beef, venison...
I will not get into the bean wars.
Last post of #Chiliwars was 2002