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This year I decided to actually make chili for our ward's trunk-or-treat / chili cook off. Except I don't make chili, so I looked up a recipe on-line. It said it was award-winning. Honestly, I just picked the first one I saw.
I substituted out the beer for apple juice (why not?). I bought the special hot sauce that it required. I even bought ground pork, another first (I wasn't previously aware that this was available to purchase). I came home, and started out on my quest to make some great chili.
After it had been simmering for about an hour, I tasted it. HOLY SMOKES it was spicy hot! I thought to myself, "A bowl of that might just kill someone." I went back to the recipe to see why it was so hot. My eyes got big when I saw the amount of hot sauce the recipe called for: 1/2 tsp. Any guesses for how much I actually added? ... Higher. Guess higher. ... Remember that I never cook with hot sauce. Might want to double your guess.
A cup. I added a cup. ... That's 96 times more than a half teaspoon. ... After it was all said and done, I called my mother to tell her and she just laughed and laughed. It turns out that everyone else knows that a cup of hot sauce is a gargantuan amount.
But I didn't want to waste 3 1/2 lbs. of meat. So I drained off all the liquid, which we kept for future seasoning purposes (taco meat anyone?), and then put the meat back in the pot and re-added the liquid ingredients, except for the hot sauce cause I figured the meat had absorbed quite enough of that in an hour's time. Luckily I had given myself plenty of time, so it wasn't a big deal.
The end result? It was delicious. We got second place, and we're convinced that we only missed first place because it was so good that it ran out first. People loved it and Rob and I only got to eat the little bit we had before the event. So we'll be making it again in the next few weeks. Though without the extra steps. (Add a cup of hot sauce. Let simmer for an hour. Drain the liquid. ...)
8 comments:
so what is the recipe?
Yeah, post the recipe! Katie wants it (and she loves hot sauce).
The best part about this story is that if you had called me, I would have reacted exactly like your mother. Cause we are awesome like.
Okay, that is hilarious.
The parenthetical comment made me laugh out loud. Delightful.
Also, why substitute the beer out?
I probably would have left it in if I was making it for myself, but I was making it for a Mormon event. Didn't think it'd be cool to bring a chili containing beer without labeling it as such so people could avoid it if they wished.
That's what I figured, but after 2 hours of simmering the vast vast majority of alcohol has evaporated (something like 95 percent or something), which is like adding vanilla to cookies.
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