January 20, 20232 yr Just saw on DDD someone make jerk chili. They added in some bullshit like beans, bell peppers, tomatoes but I was intrigued by that spice blend going into how you'd prep a traditional Texas red.
January 20, 20232 yr 13 minutes ago, ztejas said: Just saw on DDD someone make jerk chili. They added in some bullshit like beans, bell peppers, tomatoes but I was intrigued by that spice blend going into how you'd prep a traditional Texas red. That non-chili dish sounds tasty.
January 21, 20232 yr Just saw on DDD someone make jerk chili. They added in some bullshit like beans, bell peppers, tomatoes but I was intrigued by that spice blend going into how you'd prep a traditional Texas red. Sounds like a goddam workplace “chili” potluck up in here
January 21, 20232 yr On 12/29/2022 at 5:13 PM, South Austin said: Pre-game chili. Gotdamnit SA where are the cheese and onions. Chili looks good.
January 21, 20232 yr 10 hours ago, Anastasis said: Gotdamnit SA where are the cheese and onions. Chili looks good. I’m a minimalist when it comes to my chili.
January 28, 20232 yr Popular Post First pot of 2023. Sooooooo good when the cold and wet hit DFW this week. Used elk from the culmination my 37 year quest to take a bull elk with my dad’s Weatherby. Got to say, elk makes awesome chili. Modified my venison chili a tad, trying to create more depth. Complete with three roasted hot Hatch chilis added for flavor and heat. Add onion and a mix of Mexican cheeses. Only wish I had been eating it beside a campfire on the mountainside.
January 28, 20232 yr On 1/21/2023 at 7:35 AM, South Austin said: I’m a minimalist when it comes to my chili.
February 1, 20232 yr Can someone explain to me which of these I should buy, and if you're feeling wordy, the flavor/texture differences where I'd want to use one over another? Please speak slowly, this is literally foreign to me.
February 1, 20232 yr heavy on the cascabels and guajillos if you want really red, i'd go with those as my base chilis. . ancho, pasilla and mulato will make it darker (they're also a bit raisiny, and add deep flavor). chipotle will add smokiness (these are dried using smoke). puya will add some heat and fruitiness, with pequins and arbols being hotter. tepin, aji amarillo, and habanero if you want to make your butthole burn out. Edited February 1, 20232 yr by elfenix
February 2, 20232 yr Threw some shit together on the fly. Wife wanted chili and I didn’t want to drive all the way in to town to get the finer ingredients, and she married me for my looks anyways so it’s all good. All powders and no fresh ingredients. No peppers to float. Luckily we have a beer barn out here so I snagged a sixer of Ziegen to sub for the beef broth. Wife didnt complain.
February 2, 20232 yr When it's icy, and the grocery store is closed, and you need to cook something on the stove for hours with no electricity. Just make some... Shit I had Around the House Chili. Ground beef (cause that's what I had) Chipotles in Adobo Diced tomatoes and green chiles Tomato Paste Onion Garlic Red Bell Pepper Chili Powder Paprika Hungarian Paprika Garlic Powder Smoked Sea Salt Oregano MSG Cumin Cayenne Modelo Negro Beef Broth Beef Bouillon Red Kidney Beans Worcestershire Sauce Turned out mighty delicious.
February 2, 20232 yr 39 minutes ago, Hornlover said: Red Kidney Beans Thread title does not check out.
February 2, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Sam Lin said: Thread title does not check out. 1 hour ago, elfenix said: beans w/ or w/o chili is another thread It's been hashed and rehashed several times here and on TOS. I don't mind them in my chili. Wife prefers them. Happy wife, happy life.
February 2, 20232 yr Red kidney beans are satan’s bean. Doesn’t belong in this thread. Take your meat loaf soup to a different thread.
February 2, 20232 yr 11 hours ago, Hornlover said: Red Kidney Beans Edited February 2, 20232 yr by South Austin
February 2, 20232 yr Dude was in survival mode. If he needed to add kidney beans to keep the family alive until the minor ice apocalypse ends, then so be it. I gave him rep for providing for his family and hiding the can of beans behind everything else in the picture.
February 2, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Underdog said: Fuck the haters, only pussies wouldn't chow down on that.
February 2, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Underdog said: Fuck the haters, only pussies wouldn't chow down on that. No one’s saying that. It’s just not chili. Looks like a delicious beef and bean stew
February 2, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, hobbes2702 said: No one’s saying that. It’s just not chili. Looks like a delicious beef and bean stew It’s closer to chili than Frito pie is to pie.
February 3, 20232 yr 50 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said: It’s closer to chili than Frito pie is to pie.
February 3, 20232 yr On 2/1/2023 at 10:42 PM, elfenix said: beans w/ or w/o chili is another thread Is there a beans thread? I’ve seen a pinto beans thread but not a general beans thread. There should be a general beans thread. Or maybe a general legumes thread.
February 3, 20232 yr I realize typing 5 whole letters into the search bar & clicking 'Content titles only' is difficult for a perpetually drunk old man, but...
February 3, 20232 yr People from Ohio should be auto banned from any discussion of chili forever. Beans are the least of concern.
February 3, 20232 yr 32 minutes ago, Anastasis said: People from Ohio should be auto banned from any discussion of chili forever. Beans are the least of concern. Are those the people that put whatever the goop that they call chili on top of spaghetti noodles? Auto-ban for sure!
February 3, 20232 yr Worse. They put their godawful meat sauce with cinnamon in it on top of spaghetti AND red kidney beans.
February 3, 20232 yr Dude was in survival mode. If he needed to add kidney beans to keep the family alive until the minor ice apocalypse ends, then so be it. I gave him rep for providing for his family and hiding the can of beans behind everything else in the picture.Sorry you’re missing the point. A can or two of pinto beans to survive? Fine. Even black beans. Why does anyone have a can of fucking kidney beans in their house? You should be embarrassed. And move to fucking Ohio.
February 3, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Texzilla58 said: Sorry you’re missing the point. A can or two of pinto beans to survive? Fine. Even black beans. Why does anyone have a can of fucking kidney beans in their house? You should be embarrassed. And move to fucking Ohio. Where the power doesn’t go out when it gets a little cold outside and you’re not stuck making emergency chili with beans in the dark.
February 3, 20232 yr Except at that point it's not called chili anymore, and is no longer valid to post on this thread. It's real simple.
February 3, 20232 yr It's one thing to argue whether or not chili can contain beans. (Texas Red most certainly doesn't.) It's another thing to ignore the thread title -- "Chili w/o-beans". Regardless, I'd eat that, especially in the dark because my power has been out for 55 hours and counting. Edited February 3, 20232 yr by jimmyjazz
February 5, 20232 yr Of course the white exuburbanites who style themselves “Texas Chili purists” and insist that Texas Red can’t contain beans are simply wrong historically in addition to being uptight neurotics. Chili is poor people’s food and pinto beans used to extend the meat and improve texture are fine. It’s expensive cuts and elevated spice puffery that don’t make sense. That said, I think we can all agree that kidney beans are used by groomers trying to make our kids identify as Cincinnati trans-Greeks. Edited February 5, 20232 yr by Bozo_Casanova
February 5, 20232 yr 18 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said: Of course the white exuburbanites who style themselves “Texas Chili purists” and insist that Texas Red can’t contain beans are simply wrong historically in addition to being uptight neurotics. Disagree. The San Antonio Chili Queens most definitely did not put beans in their Texas Red. They served beans on the side for those customers who wanted beans. They are the gold standard for that type of chili.
February 5, 20232 yr 25 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said: Of course the white exuburbanites who style themselves “Texas Chili purists” and insist that Texas Red can’t contain beans are simply wrong historically in addition to being uptight neurotics. Edited February 5, 20232 yr by South Austin GTFO
February 5, 20232 yr 14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said: Disagree. The San Antonio Chili Queens most definitely did not put beans in their Texas Red. They served beans on the side for those customers who wanted beans. They are the gold standard for that type of chili. Yes of course these <checks notes> deeply poor, multi-ethnic women cooking and selling street food to survive using scrap meat they often got for free along with whatever they else they could find, reduced to unidentifiable homogeneity by spice, low heat and endless time would NEVER extend their meat supply using the very very inexpensive food they used at home for the same purpose or hoodwink people from out of town into thinking they wouldn’t. Look enjoy your chili with beans or don’t. Either are fine. But the idea that chili queens full-stop did not cut meat with beans is the great wallet inspection of Texas culinary history. Edited February 5, 20232 yr by Bozo_Casanova
February 5, 20232 yr 46 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said: Yes of course these <checks notes> deeply poor, multi-ethnic women cooking and selling street food to survive using scrap meat they often got for free along with whatever they else they could find, reduced to unidentifiable homogeneity by spice, low heat and endless time would NEVER extend their meat supply using the very very inexpensive food they used at home for the same purpose or hoodwink people from out of town into thinking they wouldn’t. Look enjoy your chili with beans or don’t. Either are fine. But the idea that chili queens full-stop did not cut meat with beans is the great wallet inspection of Texas culinary history. If you scroll up the tiniest bit you'll see that, in general, I'm not dogmatic about beans in chili. That said, straight from the Institute of Texan Cultures, here is what they claim is the historic recipe. Feel free to dispute it all you want, but that would seem foolish to me. 2 lbs beef shoulder, cut into ½-inch cubes 1 lb pork shoulder, cut into ½-inch cubes ¼ cup suet ¼ cup pork fat 3 medium-sized onions, chopped 6 garlic cloves, minced 1-quart water 4 acho chiles 1 serrano chile 6 dried red chiles 1 Tablespoon comino seeds, freshly ground 2 tablespoons Mexican oregano Salt to taste Place lightly floured beef and pork cubes in with suet and pork fat in heavy chili pot and cook quickly, stirring often. Add onions and garlic and cook until they are tender and limp. Add water to mixture and simmer slowly while preparing chiles. Remove stems and seeds from chile and chop very finely. Grind chiles in molcajete and add oregano with salt to mixture. Simmer another 2 hours. Remove suet casing and skim off some fat. Never cook frijoles with chilies and meat. Serve as separate dish.
February 5, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said: But the idea that chili queens full-stop did not cut meat with beans is the great wallet inspection of Texas culinary history. Were you there?
February 5, 20232 yr 9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said: If you scroll up the tiniest bit you'll see that, in general, I'm not dogmatic about beans in chili. That said, straight from the Institute of Texan Cultures, here is what they claim is the historic recipe. Feel free to dispute it all you want, but that would seem foolish to me. 2 lbs beef shoulder, cut into ½-inch cubes 1 lb pork shoulder, cut into ½-inch cubes ¼ cup suet ¼ cup pork fat 3 medium-sized onions, chopped 6 garlic cloves, minced 1-quart water 4 acho chiles 1 serrano chile 6 dried red chiles 1 Tablespoon comino seeds, freshly ground 2 tablespoons Mexican oregano Salt to taste Place lightly floured beef and pork cubes in with suet and pork fat in heavy chili pot and cook quickly, stirring often. Add onions and garlic and cook until they are tender and limp. Add water to mixture and simmer slowly while preparing chiles. Remove stems and seeds from chile and chop very finely. Grind chiles in molcajete and add oregano with salt to mixture. Simmer another 2 hours. Remove suet casing and skim off some fat. Never cook frijoles with chilies and meat. Serve as separate dish. This is similar to the recipe in Walsh's cookbook that is supposedly based on a SA restaurant recipe that was based on a CQ recipe. No beans, pendejos.
February 5, 20232 yr Goddamn it y’all, this isn’t hard. No fucking beans. That’s stew. Which is fine, but it’s not texas Chili.
February 5, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said: Goddamn it y’all, this isn’t hard. No fucking beans. That’s stew. Which is fine, but it’s not texas Chili. This guy knows what he’s talking about. He capitalized “Chili” but not “texas.”
February 5, 20232 yr This guy knows what he’s talking about. He capitalized “Chili” but not “texas.”Apple autocorrect is weird. Maybe weirder than beans in chili.
February 5, 20232 yr What’s far more likely is that the hysterical anathema against beans is a direct result of promotional efforts of Frank Tolbert, Wick Fowler, and other impresarios. Just look at the Institute’s (founded 1968) recipe and think about historicity. Of course the Chili Queens would have used beef and pork clod cut into cubes, but more often than not, they didn’t. What they did have was odd and ends, probably mostly beef and pork but mixed in with other stuff and roughly chopped/minced. what the institute recipe describes and sets in stone is the most expensive white ideal of food created by and for poor people. And it’s good! But that doesn’t make the dish that it came from inauthentic.
February 5, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said: Yes of course these <checks notes> deeply poor, multi-ethnic women cooking and selling street food to survive using scrap meat they often got for free along with whatever they else they could find, reduced to unidentifiable homogeneity by spice, low heat and endless time would NEVER extend their meat supply using the very very inexpensive food they used at home for the same purpose or hoodwink people from out of town into thinking they wouldn’t. Look enjoy your chili with beans or don’t. Either are fine. But the idea that chili queens full-stop did not cut meat with beans is the great wallet inspection of Texas culinary history. I generally like your posts but this is a weird hill to die on. And you're definitely dying on it. If in doubt, look at thread title, then post on a different thread. Should be pretty simple to do.
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