Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[pacerron]

Canned or fast food chili?!?! :shocked: :yuck: That's an outrage! Gotta be homemade! :thumbsup:

I had some of that fast food chili once. The meat? had square corners. Made me wonder where it came from.

I put potatoes that I have chopped up and pre cooked some in the micro on a plate covered with plastic wrap.
Local butcher shop ground beef browned in a pot with onions, chili, salt, and pepper.
Also use pepper chunks, home canned whole tomatoes to cook down as the liquid and dark kidney beans.
Then dump in more chili seasoning to taste as cooking.
No real recipe. I just call it Ron's chili.

I love potatoes. They add bulk to the chili and pick up a great flavor from the other components.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I've tried Wolf brand and many other brands and if there's a canned chili anywhere worth buying, I haven't found it. It's been quite a few years since I had any chili at Wendy's, but it wasn't bad.

How many of you are old enough to remember when the grocery stores sold "brick" chili; one pound blocks of chili?

And "Wolf" brand chili always reminds me of the pastor of my wife's church before we got married. He also worked in the advertising business. He said he proposed a TV ad that would show a priest (identified by his clothes and collar, of course) in a grocery store, turning to stare at a scantily clad beautiful young lady walking down the store aisle. And the caption would say, "There should be a little Wolf in every man." But he said his proposal was rejected.

These folks still make it, and it is good...as is the rest of their products.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Schwab-Meat-Co/152890678134592?group_id=0&rf=120055021380531

 

[Lou66]

Sorry Dave,, :laughing: Lou

 

[dave1949]

Refrigerated, kept in the meat market display that the stores all had before they went to pre-packaged meats. Of course that chili had a good bit of grease in it, which was what held the blocks together. But I remember it as tasting better than any of the modern day canned chili.

I could see that, I don't know of anything that canning improves the taste of.

 

[dave1949]

Sorry Dave,, :laughing: Lou

No apology needed, I was funnin' ya. You took your art work down. I was getting a kick out of it.

 

[Lou66]

Bird I remember the block chili,, The grease was the holder together.:thumbsup:.
Now getting back to chili.. the only real chili is homemade,, the other is store purchased.. made with all kinds of evil stuff.. like hair of dog, lips of lizard’s, slim of frog,:shocked::shocked:, unlike Lou chili made with the finest fence jumping steer meat,:stirthepot:, pepper picked from the garden,, hot, mild and tasty.:fiery:. cumin and chili power grounded my hand not mine but someone hands,, tomatoes frozen in the summer and save for a winter day,, then couple jars of my hot and mild sauce.. pints,, few dozen other things till the pot is full.. cooked for several hours or 12 pack,, then served the next day to friends and family.. what left will be put into pints size mason jars and frozen,, later remove from the freeze and served as Lou's chili popsicle.. with frozen cornbread,, nothing better on a hot summer day than Lou's chili popsicles try one today with or without frozen cornbread.:anyone:.

it to earlier for this I got to go and read my paper.. Lou

 

[farmgirl19]

Lou and Pacerron make chili like I do. Some differences in ingredients, but using coarse ground chuck, goodies from last summer's garden, and let it cook all day. :licking:

It's only 8 AM, and it's already making me hungry!

 

[Bird]

let it cook all day

I always make it in the crockpot first thing in the morning so it can simmer all day. And this morning, I've got the crockpot full of vegetable/beef soup.

 

[Lou66]

No apology needed, I was funnin' ya. You took your art work down. I was getting a kick out of it.

I didn't take it down Dave.. someone else did,, guess they weren't into roasted aliens.. maybe it was the aliens themselves.. but if I start getting censored I will leave.. Lou

 

[farmgirl19]

Did I miss some of Lou's artwork? That's not fair! I want to see it too! :hissyfit:

If you roasted aliens, Lou, how did they turn out? Were they tough, or did you slow roast them and they were tender?