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Should I run to the store to buy tomatoes so I can make chili or should I make past and meatballs tomorrow?

Make chili without fresh tomatoes >:

Ehhhh.

EHHHHHHH.

Maybe.

Actually, I wanna run this recipe by you:

• 3LB ground beef

• 2 cans 14.5oz sliced tomatoes

• 3 cans 14.5oz Red Kidney Beans (and any other assorted beans)

• 3 oz. Chili Season Mix

• 6 oz. chopped onions

• 1 tablespoon garlic

• 2 oz. salsa

• 1 Bottle of Hot Sauce

My personal preference is moar and more veggies (onions, peppers, corn etc)
Pinto beans over everything and stewed tomatoes.

I like vegetables with everything, and lots of them, but I'm also cooking for my brother (a very picky eater). If my parents didn't task me with cutting down his eating out budget I would definitely add more veggies. That's a good idea.

Maybe I'll delay this till Monday's food shop.

Vegetables? In chili? Might as well toss some noodles in there while you're at it.

Terlingua Chili Competition 1989 Winner

"Yahoo Chili"

Step One
2-1/2 lbs - beef chuck/mock tender or round steak cut in 1/4" cubes
1 tsp - shortening
1 can - (8 oz) No Salt Added Tomato Sauce
1 can - (14-1/2 oz) beef broth
2 tbsp - Texas Style Chili Powder
1 tbsp - Onion Powder
1/2 tsp - Ground Red Pepper
2 tsp - Beef Flavored Base or Instant Bouillon
1 tsp - Chicken Flavored Base or Instant Bouillon
1/2 tsp - Salt
1 tbsp - Chili Powder

In a 5 quart Dutch oven, brown beefin shortening (do not drain). Add tomato sauce, beef broth, 2-1/4 cups water. Combine seasonings above and add to beef mixture. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 1-3/4 hours. You may need to add additional water if chili gets too thick.

Step Two
1 tbsp - Ground Cumin
2 tsp - Garlic Powder
3 tbsp - Texas Style Chili Powder
1/4 tsp - Ground Black Pepper

Combine spices and add to chili. Cover and simmer 30 minutes.

Step Three
1/2 tsp - Salt
1/8 tsp - Ground Red Pepper
1 tbsp - Chili Powder
1 tsp - Ground Cumin
1/2 tsp - Onion Powder

Combine spices and add to chili. Cover and simmer 15 minutes. Makes 6 servings.

Now that's a chili.

edit:

Bam.

Sounds like some tasty chili.

Sound like EXACTLY what happened to me last year. Turned out to be the alternator on my car.

With vegetables in it if you wanna be like that.

I'm enjoying The Offspring tonight.

Makes Chloris farming tolerable.

Been doing that all day.... about ready to /wrist

Most likely the alternator.. Getting brand new bad batteries isn't really common. Autozone can test the alternator for free to see if that's the problem. I'm not sure if they require you to take it out first everywhere, but here the machine they use to test it is in the store by the cash registers, needless to say, it needs to be removed for them to test it.

psh, nahhh, just drive the car into the store obviously

I don't think they'll be very helpful after you nearly kill them.. You'll also get those pesky cops hanging around asking you to do all kinds of sobriety tests.

Did it break down after you turned off the car or was it in motion?
If it did it after you turned the car off it could be the alternator, the battery, or the connectors between each of them(the battery connectors specifically I'm not so sure with the alternator)
The alternator gets a spark from the motor and in turn powers the car so technically you can drive on a dead battery if you can get spark to the alternator properly I'm pretty sure, that is unless the alternator is going out of course.
I had a friend that ran with a dead battery for a few weeks and just jumped his car before he'd drive lol.

I want chili again with deer meat

Your friends alternator would be gone not the battery.

No. Not necessarily.

season almost here, and man am I looking forward to it

I just made 4 chinese food take out containers worth of fried rice ~_~

I have to stop cooking my stress away.

I do miss Venison steaks. Man... I can't wait to get back to Wisconsin.

Here's a few pics I took at the show.
Unfortunately I was in the last row, so the doormen were camera nazis, so the best I could do was check out the promotional banners and posters.

bunny spam.

I just saw that too.
But I can't be too mad; they are awfully cute.


ISH SO FLUFFY!

1 or 2 even 3 bunnies are ok but what are they thinking lol "people gunna love my bunnies" :|

pretty lame screenshots

Better than everyone around me. I dont have anyone else to compare to to see if Im good.