Chili cook off
Dec 19, 2021 17:53:18 #
Dec 19, 2021 18:10:51 #
EdwardL wrote:
When i was a kid in western Kentucky they would make a soup kinda thing they called
Burrgu. Everyone would bring something to put in the large pot about 30-50 gallons every kind of vegetables and if it flew walked or swam it went in the pot fish deer beef you name it and maybe somethings
Un named everyone looked forward to it and would sell it by the quart to help the schools
It was great
Burrgu. Everyone would bring something to put in the large pot about 30-50 gallons every kind of vegetables and if it flew walked or swam it went in the pot fish deer beef you name it and maybe somethings
Un named everyone looked forward to it and would sell it by the quart to help the schools
It was great
Kentucky Burgoo. I've heard of it, but I've never had it. It's on my bucket list. I've seen some recipes and it seems that if you can't make 50 gallons, don't bother even trying. Most of the recipes I've seen call for small game like squirrels and rabbits. Used to eat both in my youth, squirrel being much more flavorful than rabbit. It was all corn fed where I grew up, and deliciously fat. Just like the beef and pork and chickens.
Dec 19, 2021 18:47:07 #
Yes that is it. You never really know what was in it but you hit it on the head
Thank you
Thank you
Dec 19, 2021 19:11:01 #
I use cocoa powder rather than a Hershey Bar but I guess it has the same effect.
Dec 19, 2021 23:24:35 #
USAF Major wrote:
I use cocoa powder rather than a Hershey Bar but I guess it has the same effect.
I use Mexican chocolate, it's available in most stores here in California.
Dec 20, 2021 00:01:14 #
I used red wine. Chocolate ( dark) Moose Drool Montana Beer. Ok I will tell you all. Here is what impressed the judges ( customers) besides having chili full of different things they couldn’t figure out chipotle from can in the sauce…..
But that’s still not it.
Waffle iron at cook off and made fresh cornbread Waffles ( finger food) I broke them into 1/4 sized waffles with butter and honey. Pepper Jack habenero Jack and cheddar all freshly grated over their bowls . Won first in all three categories. After winning first for two years prior. They kept adding categories but I would add more each year.. like the waffle cornbread cooked fresh at the event. The cheese. Some older guys got ticked at me winning ( poor sports)
The last year I did it was when they had made mild hot and hottest. I made 3 crockpots of different chili.
Wife actually won the 50/50 drawing. So I got the cost of the groceries. I remember I spent about $70 on all the supplies.
But that’s still not it.
Waffle iron at cook off and made fresh cornbread Waffles ( finger food) I broke them into 1/4 sized waffles with butter and honey. Pepper Jack habenero Jack and cheddar all freshly grated over their bowls . Won first in all three categories. After winning first for two years prior. They kept adding categories but I would add more each year.. like the waffle cornbread cooked fresh at the event. The cheese. Some older guys got ticked at me winning ( poor sports)
The last year I did it was when they had made mild hot and hottest. I made 3 crockpots of different chili.
Wife actually won the 50/50 drawing. So I got the cost of the groceries. I remember I spent about $70 on all the supplies.
Dec 20, 2021 11:36:51 #
Dec 20, 2021 12:15:37 #
I was at a company meeting at the big ritzy hotel in Colorado Springs, CO. One evening, there was a buffet-type dinner with a ton of food. As I walked along looking at all the offerings, I came across a vessel, one that might have served coffee, that had a sign "Chili" and I looked in and it looked like very weak tomato soup! I hailed a waitress and asked "what is this?" and she said Chili, and I asked like a rookie, "Well, how do you eat it?" She said well, you take one of those baked potatoes and cut it open and then pour the chili in the potato. Good Grief! Is the next thing Chili as dessert? This sacrilege should be against the law! Just Sayin...RJS
Dec 20, 2021 13:58:19 #
Robert J Samples wrote:
I was at a company meeting at the big ritzy hotel ... (show quote)
RJS - must be a Colorado thing--I was in Denver recently for a meeting and one evening decided to eat at a local diner. Ordered a bowl of their specialty "beef red chili" and the consistency was soup-like just as you'd described.
Dec 20, 2021 14:06:56 #
I hate to say this but I think if you want a really good bowl of red from a restaurant you have to go to Texas to get it. Preferably somewhere on the Mexican border like El Paso. Chili is Tex-Mex. If you go to Cincinnati they put it on spaghetti. Denver it's potatoes. Some people serve it over rice or Mac and cheese. My opinion, you get a bowl of really good red, you ain't gonna have room in your belly for pasta or taters.
Dec 20, 2021 14:17:37 #
Spirit: I agree, you are right. I believe that a lot of chefs in other states believe that Chili is just a cover word and they go ahead and throw things together and call it chili. If you want to know about real
Chili, Google the meaning. It was first in print in San Antonio around the 1880s but was being served as early as the 1820s. I had always heard it was first served as a meal for prisoners in jail there and was a way of disguising 'road kill' or less than suitable meat that was past its expiration date but could be used in Chili because the peppers and other condiments disguised it, and made it suitable to eat. Just Sayin...RJS
Chili, Google the meaning. It was first in print in San Antonio around the 1880s but was being served as early as the 1820s. I had always heard it was first served as a meal for prisoners in jail there and was a way of disguising 'road kill' or less than suitable meat that was past its expiration date but could be used in Chili because the peppers and other condiments disguised it, and made it suitable to eat. Just Sayin...RJS
Dec 20, 2021 14:23:25 #
For all you folks living in other states, if you want to know what this Native Texan believes is a 'true standard' for chili is, go buy a can of Wolfe Brand Chili without beans. Go home, heat that up, and eat it and you will have had a true bowl of chili! Now if you want to compete in an honest chili cookoff, if you can match or even beat that which you have had in a bowl of Wolfe Brand Chili without beans, you have a chance of winning. That is if the judges know their stuff!
Once, we had an office Chili Cook-off. One of the brokers went to a Box Store,. buys their chili, goes home and puts it in a different pot, and brings it to the office, and wins the contest. Of course, the judges were all from 'Out of state" and didn't really know Chili. The broker who won didn't realize there was a significant cash prize, had the guilty feeling and refused the money and confessed to his cheating. Just Sayin....RJS
Once, we had an office Chili Cook-off. One of the brokers went to a Box Store,. buys their chili, goes home and puts it in a different pot, and brings it to the office, and wins the contest. Of course, the judges were all from 'Out of state" and didn't really know Chili. The broker who won didn't realize there was a significant cash prize, had the guilty feeling and refused the money and confessed to his cheating. Just Sayin....RJS
Dec 20, 2021 14:33:53 #
I like making and eating chili. I do get some strange looks from Texans when I tell them I use beans. Many Texans find that to be anathema! Then again we don't have too many Texans here in Sea Bright, NJ.
My favorite meat is venison. We are overrun with whitetails and you can legally take over a dozen. A few hunters I know will save the neck for me as well as the heart.
My favorite meat is venison. We are overrun with whitetails and you can legally take over a dozen. A few hunters I know will save the neck for me as well as the heart.
Dec 20, 2021 14:51:59 #
Well, Major, sounds like you have a good running start at making a terrific Chili. It is just that as a native Texan, it is not suitable to make some concoction that resembles tomato soup and call it Chili. Now, I don't object too much about beans in Chili, particularly if the family is poor and cannot feed themselves adequately. Then it is alright to add beans.
Now major, if you have been in the Air Force, I suspect you had to have been stationed in San Antonio, or at least passed through there. Downtown San Antonio, particularly the Old Mexico quarter, you would have had a chance to get real Chili and would have also been where it was reputed to have been invented. I suggest you Google the origin of Chili. That will give you an idea of why we are so 'fussy' about what is and isn't Chili. Just Sayin...RJS
Now major, if you have been in the Air Force, I suspect you had to have been stationed in San Antonio, or at least passed through there. Downtown San Antonio, particularly the Old Mexico quarter, you would have had a chance to get real Chili and would have also been where it was reputed to have been invented. I suggest you Google the origin of Chili. That will give you an idea of why we are so 'fussy' about what is and isn't Chili. Just Sayin...RJS
Dec 20, 2021 15:47:28 #
RJS: Back in the day everybody in the Air Force had to do some time in San Antonio. In 1963 the Riverwalk area was 'off limits' to all military personnel. Today it's the place to be! Actually it was 58 years ago today (20 DEC) I was commissioned and left San Antonio for a few days leave before heading to the U.P. of Michigan for my first posting. Time flies! BTW I never ate any spicy food until I got to Vietnam in '65 now you can't keep me away from it.
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