Makin a big pot of chili

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Non-texan chili, so it's got beans.

To me, chilli is all about the peppers. So I layered the flavours of peppers like crazy. fresh green bell peppers, fresh jalapenos, sweet paprika, smoked paprika, dried chipotle, dried cayenne pepper, dried kashmiri chillies. Surprisingly it's not all that mouth-burning, but the taste is divine, it's deep, rich and warming. Perfect for the miserable cold day it is today. We might get snow too, so this is great.

Also, the usual onion, garlic, cumin, cinnamon, oregano, thyme, ground beef, chunks of steak, diced tomatoes, some tomato paste, and a blend of like 6 different beans including red kidney beans, pinto beans and chick peas.

And a bottle of St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout. And smoked salt.

It's cooling right now. I'm letting it sit for a few hours to let the flavours mingle and merge before I reheat it and add some sour cream, lime juice, chopped green onions and chopped cilantro to finish it off.

[LesStrat]

On my way.

[youngthrasher9]

It's been too long since I've had good chili.


We recently got 1/2 a lamb and a 1/4 beef. I can't wait to cook up some lamb stew. We're having lamb chops tonight.

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oh and if all those peppers weren't enough, if I want some extra heat, I've got a jar of some hot sauce my friend made. Pineapple + ghost chillies (aka bhut jolokia). It's one of the tastiest hot sauces i've ever tried, and it's also got a strong burn, obviously. the bhut jolokia pepper is around 1,000,000+ scoville units.

for reference, the average jalapeno is about 5,000 - 10,000.

[youngthrasher9]

Ahh yes. The legendary Ghost pepper.

Oi that's gotta be hot.

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dudes, it was so good.

SO good.

And tomorrow, I'm gonna make chipotle/cayenne brownies.

[youngthrasher9]

dudes, it was so good.

SO good.

And tomorrow, I'm gonna make chipotle/cayenne brownies.

I've been itching to incorporate cinnamon in brownies. Chipotle would probably be another awesome addition.

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the inspiration came from earlier today. part of my chili process involved melting some butter and then simmering a bunch of crushed chipotle, crushed cayenne, cumin seeds and a stick of cinnamon for a good long while to make a sort of chilli oil/chilli butter.

It smelled like chocolate. weirdest thing, but so incredibly tasty. I figured I could do the same thing with the butter to be used for the brownie recipe, minus the cumin seeds.

But yeah, cinnamon and chocolate go extremely well together.

[johnjohn]

What type of chocolate are you using in the brownies?