[Texaggie79]

I don't know any, but I'm sure help is on its way. Knowing fellow freepers and their chilli though, I would say to purchase gas masks for after dinner.

[Michael Barnes]

Bookmarking this thread for future reference...I'm stock piling the "fruit" cellar for winter chilli...

MB

[hole_n_one]

Chili

[ET(end tyranny)]

You'll find some Chili recipes in this thread The Best Chili Ever

[tet68]

Hand ground cumin,and masa flour.(NO beans,or at least only pintos.)(NO,NO,Hamburger!,only chunk chuck!)

My 2 cents.

[Ed_NYC]

Thy this Site

[MississippiMan]

I'll make it VERY simple: get a can of S&W Chili Makin's. Add it to browned ground beef, spice it up some more with ground red pepper if you like, and BOOM, you have a fabulous chili in under 30 minutes. We discovered this stuff a few months ago and haven't gone to the trouble of chili from scratch since.

MM

[notyourregularhandle]

try this site...!!! hundreds of chili recipes with reviews...

[Heartlander]

Here are a few tricks for cooking Texas chili:

1. No beans

2. Buy stew meat (not ground beef)

3. Cook stew meat (after browning) in oven bag with spicy BBQ sauce - low heat - discard juices

4. Use sweet onions, red and green peppers, a variety of hot peppers, and cilantro

5. Dash of mesquite liquid smoke

Can’t give away all my secrets - LLSS

[Uncle George]

If I gave you MY RECIPE then you would be the best chili cook in the world. Recipe on bottle of Gebhardts Chili Powder bottle is very good Texas Chili.

[Map Kernow]

Saute two onions and two cloves garlic in olive oil until translucent---Add lb. browned ground chuck, cup beef bouillon, teaspoon ground cumin, oregano, ancho chile, mulato chile, and two pasilla chiles made into watery paste (you can vary this as you like--the various combos of chiles are what give individuality to your "chile"), couple of good beef soup bones with plenty of marrow (dig out marrow, mince it and add it back to chile after you've cooked it in the mess for an hour or so--give rest of bone to dog), a 20 oz. can or so of ground tomatoes, a 12 oz. bottle of Lone Star beer (or some Mexican beer like Dos Equis--drink remaining 5 bottles of sixpack). Bring to boil and add a couple of tablespoons of masa harina (Mexican corn flour) paste mixed with hot water---then reduce heat and simmer for an hour, hour and a half. Add can of kidneys beans if desired last 20 minutes of cooking.

[nagdt]

Here's the deal. Get yer meat. Go to any store and find some chili mixes. Use the hot mix. Add in at LEAST one can of beer. Give him plenty of beer when he's waiting. By the time the chili is done, he won't care. Add shredded colby/jack cheese in the bottom of the chili bowl. Some Frito's taste good as a garnish too. Health food at its finest.

[Roger_W_Isom]

For meat maake sure its the TOUGHEST part you can find... Preferably the shank.... REMEMBER CHILI takes a LONG time to cook... I've also read the TRUE Chili fans DO NOT use Tomatoes.... Use HOT red peppers!!!! THATS where the red color CAME FROM.... also if you ever yet along the Chisum trail its a little known fact that during the hay days of the trail the camp cooks used to plant Herb Gardens where they would stop for the night... Thus having to aleave them of the worry of takin along herbs... Thus reducing the wagon load!!!

[Roger_W_Isom]

Another HINT... if you know someone whose a HUNTER get him to give you THAT part of the Venison as well... I.e. The Shank or CHUCK... also if you are EXTREMELY LUCKY and can fin someone who went to Canada to da a little MOOSE hunting get some of THAT meat as WELL. From what I've heard HUBBY will DIE!! tasting it(Wide evil grin)

[Golden Eagle]

We have a chili contest every year at work and I have won 4 of the last five years with this.

- in a big pot, dice up lots of unions, green peppers, and red peppers. Add hot water and boil until your eyes are watering, leaving lots of water in the pot.

- start cooking beef that is coarsely cut, called stew meat or chili chuck. Cook it separately, draining the grease after cooking. Apply Lousianna hot sauce all over when it's done but don't put into the pot yet, let the meat soak up some of the hot sauce sitting there.

- Add whole sliced tomatoes (basically don't have the skin) from a can into the pot, minus the water. Crush the tomatoes up amongst the unions and peppers. Keep low boil going.

- Add tomato puree and all the chili powder. Add chyene pepper if you want it really hot.

- Finally dump the meat into the pot, stir and heat. Add more chyene if you need it.

Forget the beans! Good luck.

[blackdog]

Cube 3# good serloin roast. Saute 4 strips of bacon until crisp. Keep the grease to saute 2 large spanish onions. Set onions and grease aside. Saute cubed serloin under high heat until all juice is reduced away. Add onion mixture backinto pot and add two teaspoons of corn flour. Mix the whole mess up until it browns on the bottom. Add 2 tsp.cumin, 2tblsp. hot chili powder, and one chipottle pepper. Stir the whole mess up again. Add 4 large 32oz cans of crushed tomatoes. Cook for 2 hours under low heat. Remove the chipottle pepper and scrape the soft pulp from the skin. Throw away the skin(should be like see thru tissue) Stir in the chipottle pulp. Now cut up one green bell pepper into diced pieces, finely chop 1 jalepeno and saute them in a little olive oil. Pour the peppers, chopped bacon back into pot. Cook for an additional 15 minutes. For a more smokey, robust flavor, use 2~3 chipottles. Serve the above with lot's of good red wine, or if he is an unrefined Cowboys fan.... Serve with cheap beer and a crying towel.

[MissAmericanPie]

Here's a good one.

Yvonne's Chili:

4 lbs chili meat, ether coarse chili ground or beef cut into small pieces (1/4 to 1/2 inch).
1 medium onion and 6 cloves of garlic, chopped finely, the onions and garlic can be pulped in a food processor for a smoother chili.
1 8-oz can of tomato paste
6 Tablespoons chili powder
1 Tablespoon ground cumin
1 Tablespoon paprika
1 teaspoon ground oregano
1/2 teaspoon ground marjoram
1/2 teaspoon celery salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper (or less, this makes it pretty warm)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon MSG (optional)
A little beef suet

Brown chili meat in a little suet. Add onion/garlic. Stir. Add tomato sauce and seasonings, add water or stock to just cover meat. Stir everything together and cook for 2-3 hours or until meat is tender. Correct the seasoning (salt, etc) to taste as needed.

Yvonne was named the 1982 Southwestern Ladies Champion at the State Fair of Texas. This special chili won both the First Place and Best of Show ribbons. yum yum...enjoy

[Dan Day]

A couple of "chili secrets" from my house:

1. Toss in a bottle of cheap, malty beer. You won't be able to taste the beer in the finished product, but there's something about the malt that really brings out the flavor of chili.

2. For whatever amount of heat you like, it's better to toss in a smaller amount of very hot chile peppers, than it is to put in a lot of milder ones.

The secret here is that adding a lot of mild peppers makes for a heat that has too much of a painful "bite" to it. A lesser amount of hotter peppers (even though you have the same overall amount of heat) gives a much, much "smoother" heat, the kind of steady warm glow that makes you smile instead of grimace. It's like the difference between day-old moonshine and a finely aged Scotch.

I recommend habanero peppers if you can find them (also called "scotch bonnets" in some markets). But be aware that they are *incredibly* hot, so use proper precautions when slicing (rub your eyes and you will be VERY sorry, not to mention wash your hands before you go to the bathroom), and don't get carried away when adding them to your chile. Believe it or not, one half to one whole habanero pepper can be enough to seriously warm up an entire big pot of chili. And don't let any of your macho friends pop one into their mouths unless they have years of SERIOUS chile pepper tolerance.

[joathome]

Just remember that if a yankee tries your chili and doesn't ask something like, "What's in here? Kerosene?" you don't have enough fixins' in it. :) Especially chili powder and cumin.

A cajun transplant, now Texan

[eccentric]

Remember Dragnet? Bill Gannon's recipe included a scoop of vanilla ice cream

On the other hand, there were the guys at a San Antonio rodeo whose secret recipe included not washing their hands after the cow chip throwing contest. :<