Chili & Darling

Wednesday, Jun. 10, 2009 - 12:09 a.m.

Because John and I had company on Monday, the original plan of preparing chili to enjoy for the rest of the week was postponed for a day until Tuesday.

So that's what we did for Tuesday's dinner. It was delicious.

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Not just any recipe, mind you. It was a variation of the recommended meat recipe that accompanied the Carroll Shelby package of seasonings. By the way, that seasoning package used to be in a bag, but now it's in a box, which sucks. Anyway, John devised this, and it consists of:

One roll of Jimmy Dean Hot Sausage
One package of ground beef, the usual ratio of fat and about a pound and a half of beef
One package of buffalo meat.
One white onion, peeled and diced.
Two small cans of tomato sauce.
A little water as needed. Keep about a cup and a half of it handy.

Mix up all the meats and brown them. Drain the meat, do not rinse it off, but retain several tablespponfuls of the drippings, and use them to saute' the onions in a pan until they are translucent and caramelized.

Put the browned meat and the package spices all in a big pot, turn on the heat, add the caramelized onions, and add water a little at a time and stir until things loosen up a little in there. Then turn off the heat and put a lid on the big pot and just let it sit there and rest for about fifteen or twenty minutes. Go make some cornbread or something.

That's pretty much it.

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The *other* thing we did last night was sit down and watch a documentary about a man named Pieter-Dirk Uys.

I can't describe him, really, and I am not going to try, because if somebody announces that there's a really good documentary on Link TV about a South African political pundit who is also a cross-dresser -- that's asking for a lot of suspension of disbelief.

But it's a real person, and if you get a chance to see the documentary, do it.

I asked for fifteen minutes of John's time last night, and he was mesmerized through the entire thing.

Thanks, hon.

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Okay, that's it. Have a good Wednesday.

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