Chili! Chili! Chili!

[Dinner]

Yeah, but I'm lazy so ground beef it is.

[Gamecube64]

Putting extra things like cheese in chili

Eat it like a man!

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Gamecube64
Putting extra things like cheese in chili

Eat it like a man!

I don't put it in the chili, it's a garnish like cilantro.

[MikeH]

Allowable garnishes for chilli:

Chopped raw chillis
Pickled chillis
Extra hot chilli sauce..

I think that's about it.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Silly Euros. Don't you understand that chili is a southwestern dish and that cattle ranching is the heart of the southwest? Of course real chili has ground beef in it.

Ah yes- with the traditional Southwest ingredients, all natural 'gravy browning' and 'taco seasoning'.

[Brundlefly]

Some enjoy a nice human appendage in their chili once in a while...

[Imran Siddiqui]

let it sit in the fridge overnight

Always better the next day .

And oh yes, cheese is definetly an acceptable garnish for chili.

[Starchild]

Ludd's a canuck. If you're going to insult us euro's, at least insult of for something we've actually done.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by molly bloom

Ah yes- with the traditional Southwest ingredients, all natural 'gravy browning' and 'taco seasoning'.

I didn't say mine was traditional. I did say that traditional chili had meat in it.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Starchild
Ludd's a canuck. If you're going to insult us euro's, at least insult of for something we've actually done.

I always thought he was from Belgium for some reason. I guess the Dominion part should have tipped me.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Oerdin


I didn't say mine was traditional. I did say that traditional chili had meat in it.

I think that depends whether you mean 'traditional American' or traditional.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Vegetarian chili

Chili was originally a vegitarian dish.

Cincinatti chili is very strange stuff. It's more of a condiment than a meal. It's best on hot dogs or spaghetti. By itself it's fairly nasty. Happily for me, there is a Skyline Chili place here in Ft. Lauderdale.

I don't eat as much chili as I used to, cuz the Bunnygrrl likes sweet chili and I prefer stuff that will disolve your jaw. One thing that makes chili really good is to throw about half a can of refried beans in. It really thickens it up.

[Dinner]

http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Chili/ChiliHistory.htm

There are many legends and stories about where chili originated and it is generally thought, by most historians, that the earliest versions of chili were made by the very poorest people. J. C. Clopper, the first American known to have remarked about San Antonio's chili carne, wrote in 1926:

"When they have to pay for their meat in the market, a very little is made to suffice for a family; this is generally into a kind of hash with nearly as many peppers as there are pieces of meat - this is all stewed together."

It also says that Chili was entirely American and not at all Mexican in origin. Chili is an American originial.

[ajbera]

For an interesting, sweeter variation, use cans of baked beans instead of kidney (or whatever) beans.

[Dinner]

Same link:

1850 - Records were found by Everrette DeGolyer (1886-1956), a Dallas millionaire and a lover of chili, indicating that the first chili mix was concocted around 1850 by Texan adventurers and cowboys as a staple for hard times when traveling to and in the California gold fields and around Texas. Needing hot grub, the trail cooks came up with a sort of stew. They pounded dried beef, fat, pepper, salt, and the chile peppers together. This amounted to "brick chili" or "chili bricks" that could be boiled in pots along the trail. DeGolyer said that chili should be called "chili a la Americano" because the term chili is generic in Mexico and simply means a hot pepper. He believed that chili con carne began as the "pemmican of the Southwest."