With the first actual cold front potentially arriving this week, I plan to make a big pot of chili. My wife and I swap between family recipes every year for the first of the year. Mine has beans (and potatoes, I know, it's weird) and hers doesn't. Anyone have any interesting or different chili recipes that they enjoy making? We have a lot of chili meat from a cow we bought and plan on making quite a bit this winter.

Do a search for the "Did somebody say chili" thread. Theres some great ones.

Don't knock it till you try it

Bruce Almighty said:

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Potatoes? That ain't chili.

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Neither is beans. Both are a stew, which is fine for what it is.

We grew up eating what our dad called Dutch chili. Beef, kidney beans, diced tomatoes, tomato juice. I've heard dropping 1 tater in it cuts down the acidity level of the tomatoes.

I buy my Chile powder from Chimayo New Mexico. The sun dried variety is a game changer.

Rexter said:

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We grew up eating what our dad called Dutch chili. Beef, kidney beans, diced tomatoes, tomato juice. I've heard dropping 1 tater in it cuts down the acidity level of the tomatoes.

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I've seen baking soda used to cut down the acidity of tomatoes as well.

True Texas chili can contain anything from the garden, just like gumbo. If you have/had grandparents or great grandparents who were Texan, you know this. It's the carpetbaggers that get hung up on an authentic definition of Texas chili.

I guess I can put eggplant in my chili and call it authentic Texas chili as long as I grow it in my backyard.

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FIDO*98* said:

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Did you just make that up and it sounded good in your head. That couldn't be more incorrect

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Do you make "true Texas Chili" ? What's you're recipe for it? If you use fresh beef from HEB that couldn't be more incorrect. It's not true Texas chili like the original. Now if you leave said beef out on the counter for 5 or six days and it starts getting a little ripe and aromatic and then make your chili it's much more like the original .

GAC06 said:

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Chili is stew

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Chili is chili.

Put beans or some other yankee/commie concoction in it and it becomes meat stew. HTH.

Bruce Almighty said:

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schmellba99 said:

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GAC06 said:

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Chili is stew

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Chili is chili.

Put beans or some other yankee/commie concoction in it and it becomes meat stew. HTH.

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Chili is a type of stew. It literally fits the definition of what a stew is.

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a square is a rectangle?

HECUBUS said:

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True Texas chili can contain anything from the garden, just like gumbo. If you have/had grandparents or great grandparents who were Texan, you know this. It's the carpetbaggers that get hung up on an authentic definition of Texas chili.

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That's called goulash.

Cromagnum said:

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HECUBUS said:

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True Texas chili can contain anything from the garden, just like gumbo. If you have/had grandparents or great grandparents who were Texan, you know this. It's the carpetbaggers that get hung up on an authentic definition of Texas chili.

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That's called goulash.

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Only if you are of Eastern European descent...........

2.5 oz guajillo
1 oz ancho
1.5 oz chipotle
1 oz arbol (more if you like it hotter)

stem, seed and shred

take 3/4 of that mix, stick in a 400 degree oven for several minutes

toast 1 tbsp each cumin seed, coriander seed, and black pepper

take all that and grind into powder

soak the other 1/4 of the mix in boiling water for 20 min, drain the water and blend with a little bit of either fresh water or whatever mix of liquid you put into your chili to make a chile puree for the second dump

Put beans in your chili if you want. I like it both ways. Just call it what it is: chili vs. chili with beans.

Chili bean soup

Chili vs soup. Because chili with beans is soup.

If you make your chili with turkey instead of beef is it still chili? MZ R made some yesterday and called it chili. Whi ch one of you brave hearts is gonna tell her it's not? If you put fritos in your chili and beans when served is it still chili and beans or is it chili and beans and fritos? Can you put onions and jalapenos in your chili ,,,,or does that make it chili and onions and jalapenos?

I was about to make fun of people for not knowing the difference between soup and stew, but I see Rattler is on the case

Rattler12 said:

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If you make your chili with turkey instead of beef is it still chili? MZ R made some yesterday and called it chili. Whi ch one of you brave hearts is gonna tell her it's not? If you put fritos in your chili and beans when served is it still chili and beans or is it chili and beans and fritos? Can you put onions and jalapenos in your chili ,,,,or does that make it chili and onions and jalapenos?

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Was her white chili tasty?

And Fritos in your chili is Frito Pie.

Now, what do you call chili on white rice? Because the coon ass in me eats his chili on white rice.