chili time!

fall is here in birmy & that means it is chili time!  

i have actually never made a batch of chili before.  {except ashley's amazing white chili.  but that really is soup...}  so i used my favorite, allrecipes.com, to search for the best rated chili & found this one {HERE}!

believe it or not, i actually followed the recipe pretty darn closely.  that's new & different.  it's a thing i'm trying.  you can really discover some pretty neat things if you follow other chef's ideas.  crazy, huh :)  the few changes i did make:

1.) used 4 cans of medium chili beans with the sauce.
2.) no purchasing of bacon bits in my house.  & i didn't feel like making bacon.
3.) used an extra teaspoon or two of cumin because chili = cumin.
4.) cooked for 7 hours, as what is more fun than getting up early on sunday morning to make a batch of chili & smell the delicious aroma all day long?!

the recipe begins with chopping up quite a few vegetables & peppers.  nice.  it has to be good.

& these probably helped the goodness too...

how pretty does this look?

seven hours later & voila!

one of the many great things i have learned since becoming a porter is that you should eat chili with yellow mustard.  sounds so strange, right?  yeah, it is.  but it is way good.  try it. 

{my husband's happy bowl}

so many joys of fall.  so many revolving around food.

love love,

kjp.