My chili for the cookoff tomorrow - Ha

M

music-city-missy

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I had lots of wonderful ideas like:

Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Fire - using bulls balls

El Puerco Loco Chili Verde - The Crazy Pig Green Chili

Rootin Tootin Vegetarian Bean Chili

Nashville's Famous HOT Chicken Chili

but in the end, I just didn't feel like putting too much effort or money into it. So I took the day off today and meant to play around some but then it got to be 3pm. I opened the freezer and started pulling stuff out. I sometimes get really lazy and forget to label things. So I put out a pint of Cuban black beans, three pints of homemade meatsauce, and get ready for this one, a quart of leftover Manwich. Then I added a jar of this HOT salsa I got at the farmers market the other day that just wasn't to my liking to eat on it's own. Discovered I was out of chili powder. Add a good heavy dash of cayenne, some local smoked ground pepper blends that I get from a farmer, good dash of cumin, a Yuelingling beer, and a can of tomato sauce along with some water.

Hubby is eating his second bowl and said it's really good just too hot for most people. Guess I am going to put some lemon juice and sugar to try and tame it slightly. Just told him what was in it and he said 'Manwich?'

Now lets see how this does in the competition tomorrow. Be funny if I place or win with it!!!

 
Good luck, M! I got nowhere with my chili contest...

My entry name was

"Holy Beep!Beep! This is beeping great chili."
-- Wile E. Coyote

But the 24-year olds running the contest didn't quite get it, so its nametag read: "Holy Beep Beep".

 
Nada. Nada. And Nada.

No ingredients were displayed , so I really don't know what was in the winning dish other than it contained 5 lbs of meat and a box of velvetta. They had bowls of shredded cheese, onions and other add-ins to add to it. Other people had corn bread and table decorations. One guy even had music. I set a bottle of TUMS next to my crockpot.

Apparently, the folks running the contest put all of our ingredients into a database (they being engineers, after all) and then each person entering to taste the food was asked if they had any allergies or food restrictions (like pork). Then they would search the database and tell the person which chili not to taste.

The other two winners were called Cajun Crazy Chili and Tailgate Chili.

I didn't try any. In fact, I actually got nauseated standing in the room with 23 other bubbling pots of chili.

Everyone got a $20 Target gift card, but that didn't even cover my ingredients.

 
Well Cheez Whiz, Mar! You were competing against processed cheese! Not a fair playing field for

your culinary talent IMHO!!

 
Didn't win or place. Judges she picks have NO sense of taste or what chili should be!!!

The same one from last year won - and I remembered the 'weird' part of her chili - mushrooms. But this year she went 'gourmet' on us and used portabella mushrooms. I went back and tasted it twice making sure I got the right one. REALLY - it tasted like a casserole or hot dish, NOT chili. Turkey, canned beans, and mushrooms with a little chili seasoning do not a pot of chili make. It was brownish green - there wasn't even enough chili seasoning to make it look like chili. One of the judges said it had a dark beer in it and because the flavor stood out so much, he wanted to find out what it was. HA - it had no beer. It was the mushrooms!!!

 
"Brownish Green," What is the world coming to? And how long do you have to overcook mushrooms

before they start tasting like dark beer?

 
Brownish green? I used some dried porcini mushrooms in a dish a few weeks ago

and after hydrating them, the underside was brownish green. I've never heard of mushrooms in chile....strange!

 
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