In the spirit of this thread I broke from my normal recipe today and threw together a batch of chili. It is still in the crock pot, so no taste reviews yet. I did not feel like going to the store to get ingredients for my chili today, so I was resourceful with what I had in the cabinets, freezer, and out in the garden.
Started with 1 package of tenderloin and 2 of stew meat from my Thanksgiving buck last year. He does look delicious doesn't he?
Chopped into small cubes. Don't have any ground meat for this chili. This will be a whole different style of chili for me.
Added to the meat was a vidalia onion and some fresh peppers from my garden outside. I decided to throw in 2 jalepenos, 3 cowhorn peppers, 2 red chilis and 2 serano peppers. I like spicy. Did not have any bell peppers in the garden today, so I won't have one of my normal ingredients available for this batch.
I threw all this in the crockpot with a can of rotel, half a guiness, some Worcestershire, red wine vinegar, salt, pepper, chili powder, some garlic, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, cumin and some of the other seasonings on the counter in front of me. I think I skipped over the lemon pepper, I hope so at least. I use these seasonings in my chili normally, so nothing out of the ordinary here, except that everything is being cooked in the crock pot instead of on the stove. Sorry, no specific amounts of the above ingredients, I just add til its right.
I quick soaked some pintos(I normally use red kidney beans) on the stove while the meat and veggies were heating up in the crock pot.
Just recently added a little corn to the crock pot, thought I would try something new here. Not normally a corn in chili fan. I will add the pintos to the crock pot once I add the tomato sauce and let everything blend for a couple hours.
Picture as of now:
Ill have to post back when its all ready to eat. There should be quite a difference from my normal recipe. It is much more 'chunky' and is missing many of my normal ingredients, but it was prepared in a hurry and with ingredients that were on hand.
If nothing else, Hutch will sure enjoy it.
