Soup Beans

[Bird]

A slightly different slant; has anyone ever heard of putting a potato into the parboiling beans to get the gas out? I read about it once, and wasn't sure if they were BSing.

I never heard of that . . . so of course, I have no idea whether it would work or not.

 

[Stimw]

Seedless watermelon, gas-less beans.
What about the children? They will have nothing to look forward to.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Real chili does not have beans...!

Most canned baked beans are pinto beans to start...

Real chili has peppers and nothing else. That's what chili means.

 

[/pine]

Real chili has peppers and nothing else. That's what chili means.

What most people refer to as chili is short for "chili con carne"...

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Be that as it may, this recipe is as good as it gets for us tenderfoot chili lovers"


Green Chili

2 pounds course ground chili meat
1 large onion - chopped
1 cup chopped celery
1 15 oz can diced tomatoes (not stewed...or the equivalent of frozen from last summer's garden).
2 cans Rotel tomatoes/green chilis (your choice of original or hot) Optional: You can substitute another can of diced tomatoes.
1 Package of Williams Chili Seasoning
(I like to add a couple small cans of mild, diced green chilis also)
One 15 oz can of red kidney beans; drained
One small can of tomato sauce

Add onions and celery and a dash of olive oil to a stew pot. Heat on high heat until onions begin to clarify; stirring often. Crumble and brown chili meat. Drain, if desired. Add the rest of the ingredients and seasoning. Cover and simmer 2 hours; stirring occasionally.

 

[downsizingnow48]

The University of Texas at San Antonio has an Institute of Texan Cultures. They date the origin of chili to San Antonio in the early 19th century and found the earliest known recipe. It is beef, pork, chiles, onion, garlic, oregano, cumin. I usually make it that way. When I made it for my father in law, who is a decent old galoot, he said "this is not chili!" I said why, he said, where are the beans? These days I think most folks would expect chili to have beans. And tomatoes. But from a historical point of view, the beans and tomatoes seem to have come along later.

 

[Gunny]

About the gas that beans cause - My grandmother and my mother always started soaking the Great Northern Beans in water right after breakfast and let them soak all day long. Then a few hours before supper, they'd throw a large chunk of pork seasoning and start boiling away!

My grandfather told me the reason for the long soak was so that the water could soak the farts out!

 

[cqaigy2]

The University of Texas at San Antonio has an Institute of Texan Cultures. They date the origin of chili to San Antonio in the early 19th century and found the earliest known recipe. It is beef, pork, chiles, onion, garlic, oregano, cumin. I usually make it that way. When I made it for my father in law, who is a decent old galoot, he said "this is not chili!" I said why, he said, where are the beans? These days I think most folks would expect chili to have beans. And tomatoes. But from a historical point of view, the beans and tomatoes seem to have come along later.

Do you brown the beef and pork first?

 

[downsizingnow48]

Do you brown the beef and pork first?

What I do is cut the meat (chuck roast and pork shoulder) into 1" slabs and sear it pretty well on the outside grill. Instead of browning. Doesn't make a mess in the kitchen and doesn't add cooking oil or crisco to the chili. Then cut it into chunks for cooking.

 

[crash325]

Pinto beans = Mexican strawberries.

Beans beans the musical fruit
the more you eat the more you toot.

the more you toot the better you feel.

so lets have beans at every meal.