This is a chili that I made fairly recently maybe around two weeks ago. A usual scenario is that I have just gotten back from the local farmer’s market, and want to make a nice vegetable dish.
This is a “robust” chili where there are many kinds of ingredients. There are two kinds of kale, two kinds of onions, peppers, hot seasoning peppers, and beans. When all done, this is a really tasty meal.
Well I just blogged a chili yesterday and here is another one today. I am quite a bit behind in my blogging and I am still publishing work from months to half a year ago (and more). I am probably never going to get caught up, and maybe don’t even want to.
This chili is fairly standard (at least for me) and uses beans, chopped onions, and slices of American cheese.
The onion itself is an amazingly important ingredient. This is present in nearly every one of my chilies.
I am a chili guy and enjoy making chilies, and also enjoy eating them. The chili below is another of the nearly endless variety of things that you can do with this relatively simple hamburger dish. It’s almost not a chili though. It is more like a fried hamburger dish with melted pepper jack cheese, chopped tomatoes, chopped onions, and cream of mushroom soup, and some other things. I also mixed in some chopped greens since it is good for the eyes. This time, I also put in some chopped tomatoes (real tomatoes) instead of canned stuff. It’s more expensive, but the end result is a little better. The results with pictures and some discussion are given below.
This is a chili that I made maybe around a week ago. It is similar to many of my chilis, having onions and kale in it. What is slightly different here is that I am using Hunt’s tomato sauce and Bush’s chili beans.
Here are some pictures that correspond to a chili that I made several months ago, during the summer. It was a Saturday and I had just bought many fresh ingredients, such as kale, Swiss chard, onions, and banana peppers from the farmer’s market. When I got back I made a fabulous chili discussed more below.
There is a nearly endless variety to the kinds of chilis you can make. I put just about anything in. Nearly every chili I make is different in some wah. During the summer months when the ingredients are available from the farmer’s market, my favorite things to put into chilis are chopped greens, such as kale and Swiss chard. The meal shown below has both kale and chard. Putting a few slices of (Kraft singles American) cheese is also great for chilis, and another fantastic variation would be to put in a can or two of cream of mushroom soup in place of the tomato sauce and beans. Adding a chopped garlic clove always helps, too. (I did not happen to have one at the time of this cooking.) I frequently “spice up” chilis, and the dish below has some chopped red banana jalapeno peppers; this warms it up nicely. I also spice up chilis with several chopped hot Thai chili peppers.
The chili shown below has chopped fried vegetables consisting of:
There is nothing in this chili here that is high in cholesterol or unhealthy (that I know of). Putting in a few slices of cheese or a can or two of cream of mushroom soup would add an interesting taste but would diminish the health aspects.
Here is another chili that I made fairly recently. Yes, the gourmet hamburger guy strikes again. I have blogged chili’s before and I plan on trying to record the better chilies I make. They are all a little different in some way. So get used to being bored to death with chilies.
I chopped some onions and kale for this dish. I am big on kale because it is healthy for the eyes. I try to fry in olive oil.
Here is a tomato sauce from the local grocer, shown with other ingredients. This time, for the beans, I am using Bush’s “Grillin’ Beans”. This adds an interesting and zesty taste that is different from chili beans. I’m the “bean guy”, and I use all sorts of beans in chilies. This bean choice gives a nice taste. Hamburger shown below was on sale.
Fry the hamburger. Pour off the fat.
The veggies are coming along nicely.
Well, after pouring off the fat from the fried hamburger, mix in the vegetables and beans.
Then comes the tomato pasta sauce.
And the final meal tastes incredible!
This post begins a series on fine arts. I plan on publishing photos and techniques for some of my cooking.
Here is a chili I made recently.
Begin with some Swiss chard, two jalapeno banana peppers, some green stem onions, and mushrooms. Chop them as shown and fry them in olive oil in a pan. Then fry some hamburger. Mix in some chili beans and a tomato pasta sauce, and you have a wonderful chili. The jalapeno peppers add a nice spicy zing to the dish. The photos below tell part of the story.
The peppers were bought at the local farmer’s market. (Madison’s farmer’s market is one of the best in the nation.) They are organic, so I included the seeds with the chopped peppers. This makes the dish warm to hot. You can feel the slight burn of the peppers on your hands after you have finished eating!
The final meal was fantastic! I like hamburger and there is a lot you can do with it.
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