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#4550902 - 01/06/21 01:03 AM Wife broke the rules; a dinner story  
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You southerners best be sitting down to read this one...

It's winter. My wife changes her cooking as is appropriate for the season. Chicken soups, beef stews, rump roasts, and chili.

Yesterday the chili had a very new twist. Purists won't say it qualified as chili any longer. That's because my wife experiments with flavors, and yesterday she made "chili" like this:

ground beef browned with usual chili, ochoa, and chipotle (<--I grilled those last summer) pepper seasoning.
Then she added Chianti wine. The dark red, sweet wine. We don't like this wine to drink, too sweet for our taste.
She cooked off a lot of liquid to thicken the wine, then all of it went into the crock-pot.

Four hours later, it was a fiery, spicy, sinus-clearing delight to the taste buds. Kids thinned it with frito chips, sour cream, and sharp cheddar jack cheese. Pictures weren't taken because it was eaten so fast, and it didn't look pretty like Thanksgiving.

Man oh man, it tasted so incredibly good.

But it probably wasn't chili.

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#4550905 - 01/06/21 01:36 AM Re: Wife broke the rules; a dinner story [Re: jroc]  
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#%&*$#, now I'm hungry.

Expected a different story though, by the title wink

#4550906 - 01/06/21 01:39 AM Re: Wife broke the rules; a dinner story [Re: jroc]  
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That is real chili your wife made. Do you know why it's real chili? There is no beans in it! You are a lucky man to have a wife who makes real chili.

There are food rules that shouldn't be violated: no beans in chili, no catsup on hot dogs, steaks should always be medium rare, don't eat pizza with utensils, don't break spaghetti before throwing it into the pot of hot water

and this


#4550973 - 01/06/21 03:16 PM Re: Wife broke the rules; a dinner story [Re: jroc]  
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Sounds good...but sweet Chianti? reading

Is that the Mogen David version?


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#4551096 - 01/07/21 03:01 AM Re: Wife broke the rules; a dinner story [Re: jroc]  
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Sounds good, but I prefer beans in my chili. Down here, that would be closer to brunswick stew, minus the pork.

#4551097 - 01/07/21 03:31 AM Re: Wife broke the rules; a dinner story [Re: Mr_Blastman]  
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Well that's my bad. There were beans in it, I just forgot that ingredient.

It was the six tablespoons of ground chipotle that gave it an almighty kick. The wine just made the flavor palette a lot more complex.

#4551819 - 01/11/21 04:39 PM Re: Wife broke the rules; a dinner story [Re: jroc]  
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I am going to have to say your wife did a pretty good spin on traditional chili...but chili nonetheless


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