Chili Recipe

04/30/2005

A few days ago I made some chili.  Basically, when I make chili, I open up the Crock-Pot cook-book to the Tex-Mex Chili recipe and then pretty much ignore it by putting in whatever I want.  I am not sure why I even start with the recipe.  I guess I do use it for the amount of time to cook the chili... but other than that, it doesn't even make sense to have it open. 

Now I almost always like the way the chili turns out, but this time I really liked the chili.  Unfortunately, my chili-making methods means that when I come across something that I really like, I am almost certain to never recreate it exactly.  So, this time I am going to write it down.  If some chili-eating web surfer comes across this page, maybe he or she can try the recipe and let me know how it turns out for them.

Of course I am working from what I remember... and will not probably get the exact recipe documented, but maybe it will be close.

So here are the ingredients:

• 2lbs Ground Beef (I like my chili meaty)  Quite often I will put in left-over brats or sausage or even chicken.  This time it was just Ground Beef.
• 2 medium onions.  It probably would not hurt to put in more.
• 1 15oz Can Kidney Beans
• 1 15oz Can Black Beans
• 1 Can Tomato Sauce.
• 1 Can Chopped Tomatoes
• 1 Can Chopped Tomatoes with Green Chills
• 1 Can Cream of Mushroom soup.
• 1 Can Beer (Miller Lite in this case... nothing you would actually want to drink on a regular basis.  This is actually a good way to get rid of the beer you might buy when you are having guests who like bad beers.
• 1 handful^* of Garlic Salt.
• 1 handful^* of Oregano
• 1 handful^* of Basil
• Some Salt.
• Some Pepper.
• 5-10 cubes of beef bouillon.

The instructions are simple.  Brown the beef.  Throw everything into the crock pot and cook on low about 10 hours.

Now, I feel like I might have missed some parts.  Next time I may try to start with this recipe and pay better attention to what I actually end up adding extra. 

^*Note: I never measure spices. I just dump how much I want into my hand. I would guess it ends up being about 1 or 2 table spoons per "handful", but I honestly don't know.