My friend makes awesome chili, but she won't let anyone know what's in it. She's a purist, beans and rice are served as side dishes. It doesn't taste hot, but as you eat you start sweating, under the eyes, forehead, the back of your neck! Anyone else make a mean bowl o' red? Do you know a good place to get some?

Chili should NEVER have beans in it...

And yeah, the hotter the better...I found that I do have a preference for venison as opposed to beef though.  The peppers seem to work a little better with the leaner meats to produce a more pure "heat". 

Quote from: Ann Onymous on September 13, 2011, 11:15:55 AM
Chili should NEVER have beans in it...

Yes!!!  If I could find a bean-less chili, I might be inclined to try it.  But I've never found a bean-less chili so I simply don't touch the stuff.

Of course, this has nothing to do with chili, but the fact that I can't eat beans in any capacity.   Every type of bean makes me so sick that I can't even stand up for a good three hours after eating them.  It's the most violent pain I've ever experienced outside of getting nailed by porcupine quills.  Not even stomach surgery matched what I feel when I eat beans.  To further complicate matters, I'm a vegetarian.  And what's the staple of vegetarian foods?  Beans!!

Cursed beans...

Hey all,
* Of course, this has nothing to do with chili, but the fact that I can't eat beans in any capacity *

Now I'm learning chilly WITHOUT beans, heya!

I can eat the bean stuff fair enough but the after effects are just TOO much to mention. Devastating!
So, I may try the no-bean approach - I'm a good cook BTW - and rather have beans as a side dish. I already got the idea. A must is to have vinegar in the bean-salad, say olive oil, some chopped green peppers, touch of garlic, and HOLD the onions! - it stops those nasty tummy bacterias from reaching 'firing proportions' that's what it be all about.

Beans can be healthy --- but PLEASE without the full broadside thunder. Extremely unladylike for sure.

Thank for the idea,
Axelle

I started this post at lunchtime, here we are at afternoon break and it's already devolved into a "fart" thread!

I loooove Wendy's chili!

I made some last night. It got hotter overnight...how did that happen?

I got food for the next 3 or 4 days.

Same as a good curry Mahsa, the chilli leaches out over night is my guess. Do you have it on toast for breakfast the next morning?

Karen.

I do most of the cooking but once when we were travelling in a caravan my wife decided to make a chilli, she had never done so before. Unfortunately she thought chilli was like garlic, keep adding until the smell is right was her philosophy with garlic. Didn't work too well with the chilli, she served this poisonous concoction in the middle of the Nullarbor Plains. No medical help for days it melted both of us in one mouthful and destroyed the coating of an aluminium pan. I took over the cooking again.

Cindy 

Quote from: justmeinoz on September 21, 2011, 03:27:34 AM
Same as a good curry Mahsa, the chilli leaches out over night is my guess. Do you have it on toast for breakfast the next morning?

Karen.

Well I have a bad case of the stinkers because I am not eating carbs with it. I rarely have toasts...carbs are the devil and I am already addicted to skittles.

Quote from: Mahsa the shark on September 21, 2011, 04:02:38 AM
Well I have a bad case of the stinkers because I am not eating carbs with it. I rarely have toasts...carbs are the devil and I am already addicted to skittles.

And they are?

Sorry different countries

Cindy

Skittles are little fruit candies here in the US, and Cindy, if the stirring spoon doesn't survive it means the chili is ready!

Quote from: Cindy James on September 21, 2011, 04:38:26 AM
And they are?

Sorry different countries

Cindy

Cindy, they are available in Oz.  Have been for many many years.

As for chilli, the hotter the better but then I'm a chilli fan, eat them everyday.  Yummy.

I like most kinds of chili.

I love chili. I recently made chicken and white bean chili. Have also made vegetarian chili.

I managed to make a decent chili by grilling lean steak, roasting poblano chilis and roasting garlic all on the bbq. It also had chipote powder in it and some stuff I don't remember at the moment but it came out well. Hot but the heat was slow to build and a nice smokey flavor.

Quote from: Ann Onymous on September 13, 2011, 11:15:55 AM
Chili should NEVER have beans in it...

Worked for a company where I had to go to Dallas a lot, one time I was there I when to a chili cook off. Some of the best chili I ever had !
When I was eating some, just kidding I ask the cook"where's the beans " He look at me and said you must be from the North That's how you Yankees northernized it ! We don't put beans in here! we're just cooking meat with gravy ! (and some HOT peppers and spices! )
I also noticed not a one used ground beef, most chopped up steak meat.

It's the biggest fight in our house when we cook chili beans or no beans ! I like the no beans

Quote from: jamie lee on September 24, 2011, 05:56:09 PM

It's the biggest fight in our house when we cook chili beans or no beans ! I like the no beans

More you eat, the more you toot causing your lover to scoot his/her feet across the bed.

Quote from: Dinky_Di on September 21, 2011, 06:56:24 AM
Cindy, they are available in Oz.  Have been for many many years.

As for chilli, the hotter the better but then I'm a chilli fan, eat them everyday.  Yummy.

Thanks Hon,
What are they called over here?

Cindy

Quote from: jamie lee on September 24, 2011, 05:56:09 PM
Worked for a company where I had to go to Dallas a lot, one time I was there I when to a chili cook off. Some of the best chili I ever had !
When I was eating some, just kidding I ask the cook"where's the beans " He look at me and said you must be from the North That's how you Yankees northernized it ! We don't put beans in here! we're just cooking meat with gravy ! (and some HOT peppers and spices! )
I also noticed not a one used ground beef, most chopped up steak meat.

It's the biggest fight in our house when we cook chili beans or no beans ! I like the no beans

That's interesting I've always used mince, which I think is ground beef to you guys. I'll have to try chopped steak, which I usually stir fry. With no beans what do you serve it with?

Cindy