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     Title: French Canadian Chili
Categories: Beef, Chili, Canadian, Beans, Mushrooms
     Yield: 12 Servings

     1    Clove garlic; minced
     2    Onions; chopped
     2 lb Lean ground beef
     2    Each: red; green and yellow
          -peppers, chopped
     1    Jalapeno pepper; seeded and
          -chopped
    10 oz Can white mushrooms; chopped
     5    Garden tomatoes; chopped
     5    Plum tomatoes; chopped
    12 oz Tomato paste
    28 oz stewed tomatoes
    16 oz garden style tomato sauce
     2 tb Dried oregano
     2 tb Dried thyme
     1 tb Celery salt
          Ground pepper
     4 cn Red kidney beans; drained

 First, pour some vegetable oil a large skillet. Then add the
 garlic and onion, letting them saute until they're translucent.
 Then add the ground beef and brown it.

 Add all the peppers, jalapenos included, plus the mushrooms to the
 post, continue cooking the vegetables until they soften a bit (2-3
 minutes). To a large pot, add all the canned tomato paste, the
 canned stewed tomatoes and the chopped fresh plum and garden
 tomatoes.

 Combine browned meat/peppers mixture with tomato mixture in large
 pot. Add the oregano, thyme, celery salt and pepper.

 Let entire mixture simmer for 20-25 minutes.

 After it's simmered, add the beans and simmer for another 15 to 20
 minutes until the sauce is the consistency of a thick gravy.

 Recipe by: Alexander Walters
 Posted to recipelu by Layla

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