Thursday, June 5, 2014

Turkey Chilli


Mike loves corn bread with chili.  I don't quite understand the combination.  I think it tastes OK, but he thinks the combo is phenomenal.  He used the Jiffy mix to make cornbread.  I personally wanted to have him make his own cornbread, but according to Michele, it's cheaper to just use the mix.  Also, I would've had to buy cornmeal.  I don't know which other recipes I would've made with cornmeal, so I just bought the mix.

Mike and I both love chili.  We especially love Cincinnati Chili from Hard Times Cafe.  We bought the spices from Hard Times to make our own chili at home, and have made it a few times.  It's pretty good.  Still, I wanted to make my own chili from scratch.  That way I would know what spices are in the dish.


Here is the chili as it is still cooking.  The red kidney beans are quite evident in this dish.

Mike thought the dish turned out rather bland.  I didn't put any cayenne pepper in there since I didn't have any, and I don't like spicy food.  I also didn't put any bell peppers in there since Mike and I both don't like bell peppers.  I also didn't put any red pepper flakes in here either since I don't have those either.  Luckily I only made half the recipe.

I also used stewed tomatoes instead of crushed tomatoes since I had stewed tomatoes, and couldn't find a recipe to use them.  Most recipes which use stewed tomatoes are either chili recipes or pasta sauce recipes.  The can showed that the stewed tomatoes did not merely contain tomatoes.  It also contained other ingredients, such as bell peppers.  I was hoping that by using these tomatoes, it would add more flavor to the chili.  Apparently I failed.  I did process the stewed tomatoes in the Vitamix in to make them smaller.

The recipe does say to "season with salt and pepper to taste".  Mike finished making the recipe since it had to stew for a while.  At the end he did not add any salt and pepper.  It might have been OK if he had.  I have had to add extra salt/pepper to some of the recipes in the Comfort Food Makeovers book if it didn't seem to have enough seasoning.


We are definitely getting a lot of use out of this muffin pan!


Here is another artistic shot of the corn bread in the pan.


Just the chili.  There are beans in there, but it's hard to tell from this picture.  I think I was supposed to use a whole can of the kidney beans, but I just used however much I had leftover from the Minestrone.  I didn't want to buy a whole can just for this, and I didn't have a use for the rest of the beans leftover from the Minestrone.  I thought about adding the Garbanzo beans that were leftover from the Minestrone, but I wasn't sure they would go well together.

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