Chili Grows...30º

My chili recipe is not very exact...Ground meat, Beans, onions, garlic, peppers and spices...I love having chili on the cellar shelf...It is quick and easy on a rainy day, just a bowl full, topped with onions, sour cream, cheese, corn bread and honey butter completes the meal...We use it as a topping on a baked potato bar, or heat and mash into a bean dip, again topped with onions sour cream and cheese, served with tortilla chips...Some days I use it as a soup base, with chopped cabbage added and fry bread on the side.

After opening our last jar of chili, the pressure cooker was still set up, turkey meat jarred and in the cellar, too early to do much in the garden, it sounded like a good idea to make chili...Herb ground deer meat while I chopped onions, garlic and peppers, measured out spices...More jars were hauled upstairs, dishwasher loaded...Ground meat, onion, garlic and spices browning in the oven...We started with two large stainless steel dish pans, then added another smaller one and yes another smaller, oblong one!..Four number 10 cans of tomatoes, whole and sauce were opened...Beans sorted and rinsed, then I made a trip to the store for more beans (twice)...We have 18 pints and 20 quarts done...We had chili for dinner yesterday, a new recipe from the newspaper...Our chili simmering in a skillet, added 3 eggs, cover, cook until whites on done, serve sunny side with warm tortillas...NOT RECOMMENDED.

This morning we will finish up with 18 pints, then all the paraphernalia will be put away for another year...Both of us saying "Why do we do this?"...But by next year with our failing memories, I suppose we will have forgotten all about the work, frustration, aching backs and do it again, just one more time, then we will quit!..Hugs To All...OWAV:)

Still need to add the beans.