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So Ill leave a little commentary concerning only culinary issues. I graduated from the US government, Food Service program in Moses Lake, Washington in 1976. This was a Job Corps arrangement. I have never worked in a restaurant which served chili using ground meat. The converse of this is my mother never cooked chili with anything but ground beef. I think the meat in chili, designed for presentation, should be in chunk form. My chili was made with 3 kilos from two slabs of low grade pork from my local Comarket. I cut it into 1 inch cubes and pressure cooked it in my mothers 60 year old Presto pressure cooker I inherited. This chili was not a one pot wonder. I made it in 3 stages; pressure cooked the meat with the juice from the 4 cans of whole tomatoes, made a sauce that tasted like chili and boiled the pre-soaked black beans, separately, to the proper texture. The meat was added to the sauce for the last ten minutes of cooking and the beans were added only to warm by residual heat. Nine tenths of my chili went to burritos. I thought I would give the guests something different. I saved the remaining tenth for the panel. The visitors never actually tasted my pure chili as I added grated Estonian cheese, home grown tomatoes and sour cream (20% hapukoor) to the burritos. The spices were typical except the chilies, used, were grown in Tarbja, Estonia. By spices I mean white pepper, Vegeta powder, large splashes of balsamic and white wine vinegar, Worchester and Tabasco Chipotle sauce. I did sweeten the brew with xylitol but sugar will do. The crowning touch was something called, Green Saffron Korma Mix, greensaffron. I used white and red onions, lots of crushed garlic and three huge red bell peppers. Thats it folks. It took 7 hours to make and an overnight sit so the ingredients would marry; proving, once again, time pays-off. Thanks, everyone. Rob Hudgins PS. I was not a economically disadvantaged youth. I was twenty-one when I enlisted under the false information this was a mere precursor to a graduate school for maritime chiefs. columbiabasin.jobcorps.gov/home.aspx
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:16:25 +0000

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