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Thanks for the thread Ms. Bee! Evening/morning Ma!
I'm late, but here's a recipe:

Kick Butt Chili

Ingredients
1 lb ground beef
1 lb stew meat (fat trimmed, cut into 1 inch cubes)
1 large can whole tomatoes
2 cans pinto beans
1 can dark red kidney beans
1 can black beans
1 med green pepper
1 large onion (yellow or white)
4-6 yellow wax peppers
3-4 jalapeno peppers
½ habanero pepper (optional)
Chili powder
Cumin
Cayenne pepper (optional)
Salt to taste

Preparation
Drain the pinto and kidney beans, but not the tomatoes or black beans. Chop the onion and green pepper, slice the yellow and jalapeno peppers into ¼ to ½ inch thick slices, and run a knife around in the can to cut up the whole tomatoes a little bit. (Sure you could have bought crushed tomatoes, or diced tomatoes – but they weren’t on the list.) Brown the ground beef until it is cooked through. While that is happening, you can put all of the other stuff you’ve cut up into the Big A$$ed Pot (hertofore know as the BAP), including the drained and un-drained cans of beans. Once the ground beef is done put it into the BAP and brown the stew meat.
As that is browning, you can add approximately 3-4 tablespoons full of the chili powder, and maybe 1-2 teaspoons full of the cumin. (These amounts are best guesses—what I do is go by color and taste/smell. Once you get the correct amounts for your taste, you can change those numbers accordingly so you’ll know how much of each to add.) Once the stew meat is done, throw it into the BAP with everything else.
Cook the whole mess over a low heat, covered, until it begins to simmer gently. Watch it closely so it doesn’t stick to the bottom and stir often. Add water as needed to maintain desired consistency, and cook for approximately 2 hours.

Drink beer as it cooks, because what else are you doing?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good afternoon, tt...((HUGS))...whoa! It is just starting to blow! It is 40 degrees. DST has started. Is it 1430 for your now?

Man, look at all those peppers!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

TT!
*HUG*
Thanks for the recipe!
How you doing over there?