Not spicy chili

[feather]

I like spicy chili, really spicy, DH likes soft on your stomach chili, not spicy, so I make it.

This is the soft on your stomach, not spicy chili I make.
In a large kettle:
2.5 lbs ground beef
1-2 cups onions
3 Tablespoons of chili powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
3 Tablespoons of celery dried, or more fresh
8 oz sliced mushrooms (or dried, or more)

Cook this up, and cook it until all the onion is translucent and not crunchy or hot.
(Add optionally 2 cups of cooked whole grain wheat.)
Add:
2 quarts of thick tomato sauce
2 quarts of beans (northern or kidney beans cooked)
Cook until hot, taste test it for salt and make sure it tastes good.

Your kettle is probably full and hot now.
Cook up some macaroni. This is a wisconsin thing. Lunches/dinners are frozen for use later and are 1 cup of macaroni to 1 cup chili.
There is enough for 8 lunches/dinners and another 8 to refrigerate or freeze.
This takes me about 2-3 hours and I'm done.

[shellymay]

I still laugh when I see noodles of any kind in chili.... Why not just call it chili mac? LOL  and there aren't any chili beans in yours, is it chili without chili beans? Just giving you some needling and wanted you to know I think everyone in the world makes their chili a little different then the next person  If it makes your hubby happy then that is all that matters!

[shellymay]

@redfish, You must be from TX?     I am siding with your hubby   Chili beans and kidney beans both in mine

[feather]

I call it chili because that is what we have and I don't like the macaroni noodles in it, why add more carbs? But that's me.

I'm pretty sure I posted my spicy chili recipe, but if I find I didn't, I'll give it to you here.

Texas Chili
Brown 3 lbs of ground beef or 3 lbs of chopped lean beef in a 1/4 cup of salad oil.
Add:
6 cups of water
2 bay leaves
6 T chili powder
1 T salt
10 cloves of garlic chopped
1 t. cumin ground
1 t. oregano crushed
1/2 t. red pepper
1/4 t. black pepper
1 T. Sugar
3 T. hungarian sweet paprika
1 T dried onion flakes

Cook for 2 hours, then refrigerate.
The next day remove any solidified fat on the surface and then reheat.
Make a paste of:
3 T. flour
6 T. cornmeal
Water
Add enough to thicken the chili, bringing it to a boil. Remove bay leaves before serving.
No Tomato, no macaroni, no beans. Dang this stuff is really good.

[Skandi]

Oh my, yes I'm sure we all make our chillis differently! I like to add smoked paprika and coco powder to mine, and I do not make it very hot, and yes it has to have beans in it, though they could be many different types round here.

[themotherhen]

DH and I have stretched chili before by serving it over cornbread with grated cheddar cheese on top. Soooooo good!

[bluemingidiot]

chili (n.)
also chilli, 1660s, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) chilli, native name for the peppers. As short for chile con carne and similar dishes.

A chili that is not spicy is like a dessert that is not sweet, it would no longer be a dessert.

[Deleted]

You all are making me hungry. Keep it up and I will get hangry.

[Deleted]

Ground meat, onion, celery, bell pepper, diced tomatoes. Most of the time I just add a can of chili beans. If I use our soaked beans I add chili powder. I like it with cornbread and butter, another piece with honey or maple syrup for dessert....James

[Maura]

I don't put chili powder in mine. Too hot. I put in ginger and garlic. A bit spicy, but not anything that will cause an allergic reaction

[PNP Katahdins]

Reminds me of my mom's chili. Yum! Hamburger, canned tomatoes, kidney beans, elbow macaroni because Wisconsin, and I don't remember what else now. Wish I had the recipe, Paul would probably like it. He does NOT do spicy. I can't tell there's any heat to something and he says it's too spicy.

Guess I should check my collection of old cookbooks.

Peg