me make food

We wanted to taste the penzeys chili 3000 so did not add chili beans, just went straight up kidney beans, cut up chuck, chicken, petite diced and crushed tomatoes.
Usually we add chili powered, some garlic, and cumin. The Penzeys is loaded up with all sorts of other stuff.

It says to add 1 tablespoon to each quart. Well I am not using the metric system so we put in 1.5 tblspns and it was not enough. I added more to be about 2 tblspns. Wife tasted it and said it was missing something. So we added some garlic powder.

The flavor was really good because it had more spices than what we normally use. Just a good balance of everything. Pretty impressed. We will add more of the spices though.

So here is the kicker. I saw that Theresa did not eat most of the beans in her bowl. All that was left was a pile of beans when she was done. I asked her why and she said she does not really like them, but if one makes it in her she does not mind. She thought I liked them. So when I said I would prefer they not be in there we easily have become a no bean in our chili household.

Pretty much the same jerky I make every time, but this time I smoked it twice. 20 minutes before starting up the dehydrator and 20 minutes when it was about done.

The sauce is 1 red bell pepper, some black pepper corns, 3 of the cayenne peppers I grew this year, and some soy sauce.

Sweet basil McJagger of the Derailers did a food post I would like to share.

With a respectful and friendly nod to Beerorkid, I offer a recipe. It may not be my favorite recipe, but it is one of the things I make the most. I hope you like it as much as I do.
See you in the heart center!

Slice and onion. Fry it in a pan. I use canola oil or bacon grease, depending on my mood and how much I hate my heart that day.

Theresa went with wonder bread and kraft american cheese. I kicked mine up a notch.

Did the silicone between the back splash and counter last night. Had to include Theresa smashing the walls in there.

We are planning on making ravioli this weekend. We will use a pasta roller though. I will get vid and it will be the first vid in the new kitchen. The huge countertop is going to be awesome. Plus actually being able to clamp the pasta roller to the counter will be quite nice.

MMMMMmmmmmm sausage gravy and breaded and fried beef. That is as rich and bad for ya as it loks. I have tried making my own CFS a long time ago. It did not turn out well.
Theresa’s parental units got us a gift box from Hollenbeck farms and it has a bunch of minute steak which will fill my breakfast desires for quite some time.