Tootie Chili Recipe

Well, either I copied something down wrong or "Kenny" the recipe guru from Bon Appetit magagine screwed up. I'm blaming Kenny. Anyway, I am still going to show you what I did to correct this little mishap....since I'm a professional, and my Mom would be ashamed of me if I bailed on this one (she taught home ec.) So anyway, I had to add some beans (yes, tooties) to the beanless recipe. It would have been like soup otherwise (still kinda was)---Bah!

Wanna see the disaster? First one that see's the mistake wins! (something) ---ok go!

Actually this recipe is called "Kenny's Quick Game Day Chili" just so you know... and Kenny gets full credit for this big ol' soupy mess! (It serves 10 to 12 by the way) and no of course I didn't cut the recipe down for just Kip and I...so now I will have this thin crappy chili for a couple months :P

Ok, I'll tell you the ingredients as we go, ok? It'll be an adventure.

First you brown the 3lbs. of ground serloin beef in 2 T. of vegetable oil. Then when it's all browned up you pour everything through a sieve into a bowl to reserve the precious 2 stupid T. of liquid to add to the recipe later.

Cook the 3 cups of chopped up onions in remaining oil in pot over high heat for 4 mins. stirring constantly. I realized I needed to shift everything into a bigger stock type pot after the onions --so that's what I did. :P

Ok...here we are with the 10 cloves (yes I count 16 too) chopped up all fine and pretty along with the 2-3 seeeded & chopped jalapenos and all these spices>> 5 T. chili powder, 2 T. ground cumin, 1 teas. cayenne pepper (yikes!) oh there's more...

2 T. of flour, 4 T. red wine vinegar, 3 T. tomato paste, and the 2 T. of the stupid reserved liquid from the ground serloin. (you add the ground serloin back to the pot too. :)

OK...here's where the recipe takes a turn. Add 4 cups chopped canned tomatoes, 2 cups canned tomato juice, 6 cups of chicken broth. ...that's just too much broth!!!! What's up? Your suppose to let it all simmer on top of the stove for 30 mins. I did 50 mins...it didn't help thicken it.

So anyway, I added a bunch of different beans that I had. (I drained and rinsed them first just cuz')

So...here's the result ---it turned out fine. But we did have a slight emergency. Kip ate his first bite and it was a little too hot (not spicy) just hot so he did a war dance around the livingroom for a few minutes and then was a ok. (Poor baby.) All in all, it did taste good even after all of the crapola that it took to make.

So who's gonna be the brave soul who tries THIS one? ha!

Have a great night all :)
Cheers,
Lo**

Posted by Lori at March 27, 2004 08:37 PM