Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Football, Chili, Free Stuff

Ah, fall. My favorite time of year. For me, it's turning leaves, dark beer, clothing that covers up my most unfortunate lady parts...likely as a result of the dark beer, straight hair, new Oprah.

For the husband, football. Football viewing on a man-sized TV.

This weekend, I thought I'd honor the crisp, cool, fall morning with a meal fit for a man and his TV. Chili. He found me at 7 a.m., on the living room floor, cookbooks strewn everywhere searching for the recipe. Turns out, it's a publishing requirement for every cookbook to contain a chili recipe and none of them are simple. It's a bit like the modern Bloody Mary. They just throw anything in these days. Pickles, celery, horseradish, nail polish remover, tweezers, a Celine Dion CD.

A few bubbling hours later, a decent chili was born and moderately happily consumed by the husband. The thing is, there was no zsa zsa zsu. No child-like wonder in his eyes.

If you'll be so kind to send along your most satisfying family chili recipes, the husband and I will choose one to receive a $25 certificate to any Restaurant.com restaurant.

Just one request...stay light on the beans. If you catch my drift.

2 comments:

  1. Oooh I have two that I LOVE! Regular and white chicken chili...both are super easy. And you can make easy beer bread to serve on the side - it's fabulous:) Will send along...

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  2. Stay light on the beans? My dad's three bean chili comes with a kick! I'm from the southwest, I should know...interested?

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