(Thanks for getting me started by the way this and tap are two of my favorites!)
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Cube my meat of choice and season with salt, pepper, and olive oil. Leave sit for 2 hours.
Brown the meat in fat, adding freshly toasted and ground chiles when the meat is nicely brown. Remove the meat and add two times the volume of chopped onions. Cook in drippings until onions are translucent. Chopped garlic added halfway thru is a must for me. Add toasted ground cumin black pepper and dried oregano or marjoram. Add back the meat and add beer and water 50/50 until the meat is just covered. Bring to a boil and immediately reduce heat to a simmer. Simmer until meat is tender.
Will not enter into arguments over tomato or bean. Both can be added but are not traditional. I prefer both added. The tomato as both paste after the onions are fully translucent and then adding canned plum tomatoes, hand crushed. I like to simmer cooked pintos in the braising chili for an hour or so.
I do make my chili at least a day before I want to serve. That way I can use abundant fats in browning and then remove it after a night refrigerated.
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Not sure if this belongs here but I didn’t find a general chili thread for restaurants, just local and statewide ones.
Yes to Freddy’s - pretty legit but they do tend to overdo the cheese and onions. My fave fast food burgers, too.
A&W & Wienerschnitzel - hot dog sauce?
Wendy’s - once or twice, years ago, although I did want to find it in the stores to bring home.
Culver’s, Panera - haven’t had.
Steak and Shake - had some almost 20 years ago (none here) - there was no spaghetti in it. Maybe this is something new.
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I want your chili! Yum.
Very cool to learn this. Thank you.
Could we please retire this misogynistic phrase? Women are not categorically whiners/whatever and panties don’t even really bunch. Thanks.
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And maybe one that’s perpetuated by the beef lobby.
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Which do you prefer? I usually love pecans best but I can see how walnuts would lend a nice bitterness/tannin on top of a very sweet cake.
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Point taken as to historical origin of the phrase and others similar, and apologies as offense was not my intent. But you might also notice the emphasized portion above. I’ll take your word that for women they don’t get in a bunch, but for men they do get in a wad, if the item in question is boxer-type. FWIW, my main exposure to the phrase was in the Army and it was always directed at men there, so the historical context was weak with me.
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Some lifeguards I knew, in order to get off work early by closing the pool, would toss a full size smashed up Tootsie Roll (stolen from the snack bar) into the pool. This usually occured when we were short on staff and there was a ‘hot date’ involved later in the evening.
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I go green almost every time. Pork and mean green with fresh hot tortillas. Like to serve with rice, as well.
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“here it is! (sniff)…it’s no big deal.”
-Karl D Greenskeeper
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Did you see the making of Caddyshack? Almost better than the movie. In college Caddyshack was a nightly ritual we had. The pitchfork just barely pierces the kid’s skin.
One of the greatest scenes in cinematic history, right here. How the hell does one “make my way over to Tibet?” Start to finish, the best impro I’ve ever seen. Dude had 4 days on the set and just made the movie. There was really no need to add the part. He improvised almost everything.
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Methinks he doth protest too much.
Panties is a gendered term. It’s a way of calling a man oversensitive or whiny by insinuating he’s a female wearing underpants. It’s pejorative, I think. That may not be your intent.
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In the Army the typical phrase was getting your briefs in a bunch. UK/AU friends use “knickers in a twist”; is it likely also gendered (female-facing) language despite men’s fashion including knickers for some 60 years, when used in this specific phrase.
“You seem to really want to argue about this”, as someone once told me.
Why else resurrect a comment from over half a year ago and then re-publish the offending passage?
Haha, fair. I didn’t realize it was an old comment! My bad. Yeah, that kind of stuff irks me.
Prime rib is hardly necessary. Frankly, I’d take slow-cooked brisket over rib eye for chili.
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Caddyshack is less a parody than a social documentary, I think.
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Any thoughts about subbing chick peas for white beans in white chicken chili?
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