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Art/Cooking, (circumlunar), 11/03/2018
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Cooking's an art, right? Therefore, this is the appropriate
blog location for a post on cooking.
Tonight, I'm attending a chili cook-off / fall festival. For
my entry, I'm preparing slow-cooked vegetarian chili- which
is sure to disqualify me from any sort of placement (people
love their meat.) But, it's what my wife likes to eat, so
I'm making it in order to help her have dinner this evening,
and therefore enjoy the festival more.
It's a simple, tfurrows-made recipe that is hardly worth
recording. I wanted to use dried Anasazi beans (I have a bag
that I brought from Arizona), but I didn't have the
patience; instead, it has red beans, pinto beans, and black
beans, from cans (sorry, connoisseurs.) It has pablano
chili, orange bell pepper, jalapeno, and onion. It has some
spices, including dried chili powder, smoked paprika (buy
some, you won't be sorry) and some others. It has butter,
olive oil, and coconut oil. Some sugar, tomatoes, and
vinegar. I think that's about it..
Right now it's simmering in a crockpot. It's been in there
since this morning.
For the dessert contest, my wife is making cranberry
cream-cheese bread. It's quite tasty (though, last time she
substituted blueberries) and I think she'll be competitive.
Of course, this is just for kicks, not an actual sort of
competition. But still.
I suppose I'll have to report back with the results...
