[greeneyes]

Here's a simple little recipe for chili. I use it as a basis for all sorts of chili recipes. I cook it in the oven in a big stainless steel pan (restaurant size and grade). After it has cooled. I cut it into sections (chili bricks) of 10 and freeze them.

1 qt. tomato juice
3 onions
2 big spoons of lard
10 lbs burger meat
5 or 6 garlic buttons/cloves
3/4 cup paprika
3/4 cup chili powder

Saute the onions in the lard till tender. Add everything together except the chili powder. Bake in the oven for 3 hrs. 300 - 350 degrees. Add chili powder, and cook another 20 minutes. Then take the pan out and let it cool, cut, wrap and freeze.

This is good as is just add half a cup of beans to half a cup of chili in a bowl. Throw in some crackers, and fresh onions, cheese, sour cream whatever.

Some times, I take a brick out of the freezer and put it into the crock pot, add some chili beans, or kidney beans, and a can of stewed tomatoes, or tomato sauce, green peppers, or hot peppers. Some times I like thick chili, and sometimes I like it to be like soup.

This also makes a pretty good chili Mac just spoon it over spaghetti.

[greeneyes]

Since I reset my taste buds, the salt in the Tomato juice is enough for me, but if you need salt, I’d suggest adding it after it’s finished cooking to your taste.