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Sunday, March 21, 2010

easy, cheap chili for a crowd

La la la, I am going to post a recipe because I am not going to write about politics.

We had a family gathering here today to celebrate the birthdays of my niece and nephew. I made a pot of chili to go with the hamburgers and hot dogs. People! Chili is SO EASY. Years ago I used to think you had to buy one of those $2.50 brown-bag spice packets to make good chili, but I was so wrong. And considering that this batch served about eighteen people (small servings) with leftovers, it was cheap. And it was an excuse to use my new anniversary-present slow-cooker*.
*I just had the best anniversary date EVER with my husband. He bought me the aforementioned slow-cooker, and he took me to bookstores and the Olive Garden and A PLAY. How many years have I wanted to go to a community theatre play with him? Sixteen years, that's how long! It was so, so awesome. Also, we went to Winco. Winco is one hot date just by itself. There may have been smooching in the bulk-bin area. Hey, we have a license to do that.

So. Recipe. SERIOUSLY SO EASY.

You'll need:
*About, I dunno, a quart of dry beans. Maybe more. (I love love love black beans. Black beans are my very favorite foodish thing right now and they are excellent in this chili AND they are available in Winco's bulk bins.) (You could, of course, use canned beans, but that seriously decreases the cheapskate value of this meal because it's going to take something like five or six cans to get the same amount of beans. But then, your house will smell less like boiled beans later, so that's a bonus.)
*Some bacon if you like to cook your beans with bacon, or salt pork, or ham, or, hey, whatever, just salt if you want.
*2 pounds of very lean ground beef
*a yellow onion, chopped
*a couple of cloves of garlic, minced
*some chopped bell pepper if you like bell pepper in your chili (I used the very last bit of last year's bell peppers for this today. My only comfort is that this year's bell peppers are beginning their lives under a grow-light on top of my kitchen cupboards as I type this.)
*About 3 or 4 tablespoons of chili powder
*A tablespoon or less of cumin
*Salt and pepper
*Some canned tomatoes if you want (I usually don't, for chili, but whatever floats your boat.)

*You could also fully customize this by adding a bunch of hot stuff if you wanted to. Also, I bet you could do these up in some animal-friendly vegetarianish kind of way, if you like plain beans without meat. And let's face it, if you're a vegetarian, you're used to boring stuff like that already, so it'd probably be just fine for you. Go for it! (Also: MUCH CHEAPER.)

Soak the beans. You can do this overnight, or you can, like I always do, cover them in a few quarts of water, bring them to a simmer, simmer for a couple of minutes, and then let them sit for an hour with the lid on.

Then cook the beans in a few quarts of water. (I generally do not change out the soaking water. You get more nutrients this way, I am convinced. Also: I am lazy and I like to conserve water for totally non-green reasons.) You can add some bacony goodness, or you can not. You can add some salt, or you can wait till they're cooked and do it then. Hey, whatever. You want to cook them thoroughly, for two or three hours at a slow boil. (This time I put them in the slow cooker overnight on High**, but I usually don't.)

(**I think I got up in the wee small hours and turned them down to Low. But anything I do in the middle of the night is liable to be completely forgotten or else remembered incorrectly by morning. So. All night on High might be too much cooking for beans. Or it might not.)

When the beans are cooked, brown the ground beef with the onion, garlic, spices, salt, and pepper. Add the bell pepper when the meat's almost done. Then, once the meat is done, add the beans (or, if you're like me, add the meat and stuff to the beans in the slow cooker). Stir well. Bring to a boil and then simmer, covered, for at least half an hour; the longer the better.

DO YOU SEE HOW EASY THAT WAS? People, it's just beans, meat, garlic, onion, bell pepper, chili powder, and cumin. That is SO MUCH EASIER THAN PIE.

This filled the 6-quart crock of my slow-cooker (it's not a Crock-Pot-Tee-Em so I can't call it that, now, can I?). My next canning project (late this week, I'm thinking) will involve canning some of this chili. With store-bought bell peppers. Snif.

Posted by Rachel on March 21, 2010 09:37 PM in recipes

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Heh. That was hilarious. I forgot how funny you are! The chili sounds great too. Yum! I'm totally going to use my first DRY black beans in honor of you.

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