Love the dish, and yours looks great! What pot did you use? (I usually use my small stovetop pc without the pressure, as it seals really well and retains heat, but I’ve been eyeing different clay and ceramic pots for years.)
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I used my enameled cast iron, and that worked well. Started on the stovetop and finished in the oven. Could have cooked it 5-10 min less. I really liked Ko’s drizzle of black vinegar-soy sauce-sugar.
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The maple-ginger mash I make adds a nice slight sweet heat to the chili.
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Dinner tonight started with egg rolls from the Chinese grocery store followed by Thai red curry with red pepper strips, bok choy and basa fillet. Rice noodles on the side.
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Rounding out my Poultry Trifecta Weekend, (Duck, Turkey, Chicken). I went with a BISO chicken breast simply seasoned with salt and pepper and roasted in the oven.
Sides were baby potatoes and Brussels sprouts tossed with olive oil and roasted in the convection oven for 25 minutes, then tossed with Spicewalla’s Honey and Herb seasoning rub and roasted for another 15 minutes.
Wine.
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Winter is coming back, so I had a hankering for Tuscan soup.
I fried up an entire package of mild Italian sausage, added a lb of baby yellow taters, and an entire bag of kale. Might last us for a few days, this one. Can’t say I mind – in fact, don’t mind at all 
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Mini penne, Italian sausage, onion, garlic, red pepper, asparagus, rpf, Alfredo sauce and parm. Tomato, cuke, onion, balsamic vinegar & oo dressing, chiffonade of basil. Toasted baguette, wine.
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A repeat of last week’s Asian beef salad. Boneless, prime ribeye and asparagus on the grill. Spinach greens and scallions with an Asian inspired vinaigrette.
Veggies from the garden.
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Hot diggity 
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A friend dropped off some freshly harvested clams (is harvested the right word?). We had a couple on the half shell but the rest went into a quick sauce of garlic, red onion, chorizo, celery, crushed tomatoes, anchovy paste and white whine. The clams were added in the last few minutes of cooking so they were just barely cooked. I wish I had some kale to toss in but it wasn’t worth going out to get it in today’s downpours.
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Well back to crappy weather starting tomorrow night . Rain . On and off for a week . Enjoying the great weather for the last week . Excellent day fly fishing yesterday.
So ending the week with grilling on the deck .
White tail deer sirloin , with the bag salad . And Bush’s grillin beans. Cheers .
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We had a lot of rain starting late this afternoon. It’s windy and raining very hard now. I took a nap after lunch and the noise from the rain on our roof and skylights woke me. At first I thought DH was running some kind of machine in the house until I swept the cobwebs of sleep away. We had leftover beef stew and mashed potatoes for dinner tonight along with some wonderful squash yeast rolls from a local farm market - heavy on the butter. Comfort food for our crummy weather.
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That looks really good!
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We enjoyed another outstanding dinner at Toscano Ristorante in Bordentown, NJ, including melt in your mouth filet mignon au poivre; lobster mafaldine in pesto sauce; clams casino; pane toscano; creamed spinach carbonara. It all went great with an excellent red blend and cabernet.
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Ahi Tuna was on sale this week, so tonight’s dinner was homemade sushi. My rolls don’t look as pretty as a Sushi restaurant, but they were still enjoyable.
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Vegetable Gulasch with Polenta Nero and Paprika-Oil Sour Creme - The vegetable stew had dried corona beans, tomatoes, carrots, parsnips, yellow pepper, zucchini, cauliflower and parsley cooked in a broth made with fresh tomato water, smoked paprika and tomato paste. Polenta nero doesn’t actually contain any polenta but is made from mashed potatoes carefully cooked with buckwheat flour and potato water and afterwards mixed with parmesan and sautéed shallots
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The May thread is here:
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It was! Even for breakfast. 
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