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Everybody saw this coming.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

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The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

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We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

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… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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Friday Recipe Exchange: Super Bowl Sunday Chili and Nachos

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JeffreyW's Awesome Nachos
JeffreyW’s Awesome Nachos

It’s almost Super Bowl Sunday, when you sit down to stuff your face with favorite snack foods, drink beer and watch the Super Bowl Commercials.  I think there is some football in there somewhere.

I’ve been gone all day. Today was the first day I’ve left Bixby alone all day out of his crate. I’ve been working up to it a few hours at a time. I’m happy to report he did great, nothing out of place when I came home. Good puppy!

I decided after a busy day, the easiest way to do this tonight was to pull together all the recipes we’ve done over the years for Super Bowl. I’m happy with a variety and chips and dips myself. But this is a recipe exchange so I know you expect more.

You can’t go wrong with nachos – easy and easy to pile high with your favorites ingredients.

Here’s a kinda healthy version: Black Bean and Corn Nachos, recipe here.

JeffreyW gets a little more creative with his pizzas, here , here, here  and if you want to see them all, here  (the man does love a good pizza).

For something a little different, Buffalo Chicken Dip recipe is here.

Now it’s your turn, what are you planning on making this Sunday and more importantly what beer are you serving?  Do you make chicken wings or buy them from a favorite place? Most importantly, Broncos or Panthers?

Tonight’s featured recipes – one traditional, one a bit more creative:

Quick and Easy Chili

  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 3-5 Jalapenos finely chopped (depending on heat)
  • 1/2 green pepper chopped
  • 1/2 sweet onion chopped
  • 2 cloves of garlic crushed and chopped
  • Lg. can V8 Juice
  • 2 cans kidney beans drained and rinsed
  • 1 can Original Ro-Tel
  • 2 Tbsp chili powder
  • 1 Tsp cumin
  • 1/2 Tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
  • 1 tsp paprika

Brown ground beef and drain. Saute jalapenos, green pepper, onion and garlic. In large pot combine all ingredients bring to boil. Lower heat and simmer, covered for at least 30 minutes.

In my house we serve chili with fritos and shredded cheddar, layered in a bowl – fritos, chili, cheese and more fritos.

Slow Cooker instructions:  Following instructions above, add everything to slow cooker, cook on high for 15 minutes, reduce heat to low and let simmer for 6 to 8 hours.

Also, if you are serving at a party, you can cook in large pot above for 30 minutes and then transfer to slow cooker on low or warm to keep it hot during the festivities.

Looking for a little more kicked up chili? Check out JeffreyW’s Chorizo Chili here.

What about combining chili and pizza with Chili Pizza, instructions here.

And my favorites to take to a party:

Basic Tortilla Pinwheels

  • 1 (8 ounce) package whipped cream cheese
  • 10 (10 inch) flour tortillas
  • 1/2 cup green onions, chopped
  • 1/4 cup black olives, chopped (optional)
  • 3/4 cup chopped ham slices

You spread the ingredients on the tortillas, roll them up and slice them into 1 inch pinwheels. Couldn’t get much easier.

So how do we add some dazzle? Flavored tortillas and a variety of fillings.

Here are some ideas I had:

Jalapeño & Cilantro Tortillas and Black Bean Tortillas

  • Cream Cheese
  • Pickled jalapenos
  • Sliced green chilies
  • Turkey
  • Salsa
  • Black olives
  • Shredded cheddar cheese

Roasted Red Pepper Tortillas and Sun-dried Tomato & Basil Tortillas

  • Cream cheese mixed with crushed roasted garlic
  • Spinach
  • Pepperoni
  • Grated parmesan

That’s it for this week. Have a great weekend! – TaMara

Final note: Chili is about as controversial as politics, so add your own recipe twist in the comments.

 

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  3. 3.

    raven

    I’m making a Turkey Football that is based on Julia Child’s Chicken Melon. I take the skin off in one piece, bone it, grind it up, mix it with pistachio’s and feta, stuff it back in the skin in the shape of a football and slow roast it.

  4. 4.

    Major Major Major Major

    My mom’s quick ‘n easy chili recipe is basically that, except tomato juice instead of V8 since the family has blood pressure issues and we like to add our own salt to preference.

    Also you just convinced me to watch the superb owl this weekend so that I can eat chili. Old family tradition now that I think about it.

  5. 5.

    benw

    We’re having some Aussie friends over that we’ve sucked being Broncos fans. We’re doing some kind of veggie chili – recipe undecided so far. I got a couple of Fosters to serve them as a joke, although they’re cool and haven’t turned their noses up at Fosters before. Otherwise, we’ll stick to American lite beer, as god intended.

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack

    I’ve been thinking of making baked beans from scratch. Found a couple of promising slow-cooker recipes on line, but they say you should simmer the beans first in a pot to make sure they get done. That sort of defeats the purpose of using a slow cooker. I’m thinking that I could cook the beans alone in the slow cooker for 4-6 hours (after an overnight soak), then add the “baked beans” ingredients for the final x number of hours (2-4?). The problem seems to be that salt and the acidic ingredients retard the cooking of the beans.

  8. 8.

    Felonius Monk

    @raven: Turkey Football sounds like fun. If you overcook it, you can just use it for a game of touch in the backyard, :-)

    I got 6 lbs of pork back ribs, a big bag of shrimp, and the makings for a big pot of chili (my recipe, sorry TaMara). We plan to eat well whether the game is any good or not.

  10. 10.

    A Ghost To Most

    Here is the chile that I am often asked to make, It is so not easy chile, but worth the work:

    Chile Chile

    1 lb stew beef
    1 lb stew pork
    Chile Peppers (whatever; we use Poblanos, Bells, Anaheims, jalapeno)
    several of each

    Heat Large cast iron skillet or pot. Add some oil,
    and brown the beef and pork separately in batches
    over medium high heat.
    Season with salt,pepper, while browning.

    When brown, season again, lower heat, and add
    the following, allowing each to bloom a bit:

    celery seed (some)
    1 TBSP Ancho Chile Pwdr
    1 TBSP Ground Cumin
    1 TBSP Smoked Paprika
    1 tsp Chipotle Chile Pwdr
    grated dried garlic or garlic powder
    3 bay leaves
    oregano
    chopped garlic as needed (I do 3-4 cloves)
    pepper flakes and/or cayenne as needed

    When that comes together, deglaze with beef stock
    and add:

    1/4 cup Lime Juice or cider vinegar
    good glug of Worchestershire sauce
    good glug of your favorite hot sauce (I use Franks)
    beef stock as needed
    15 ounce can of chopped tomatos or fresh (optional)
    1 small can (6 ounce?) diced green chiles
    1 small can (6 ounce?) diced jalapenos

    Cover and simmer until both meats are at desired tenderness.
    Add beef stock or water as needed.

    About 45 minutes before the meat will be tender, roast the
    peppers under a broiler, blackening skins. Put all the peppers
    in a plastic bag, cover with something to keep it warm, and
    steam for 10-15 minutes. Peel the peppers and cut into bite
    size pieces (chop hot peppers finer if needed).

    When meat is where you want it (we like it just starting to break),
    turn the heat low or off, and add the peppers.

    Add cheese, cilantro or other greens, sour cream, and toasted tortillas. Beans on the side.

    eta: Go Broncos!

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    I don’t have a pressure cooker; probably wouldn’t use it enough to justify getting one. Although I have been tempted by one of the Instant Pot programmable electric models similar to what Jeffrey has. Might do enough other things to make it worthwhile.

    I really like the slow cooker for all types of beans. Once you get the “parameters” dialed in, it’s a no-brainer: soak the dried beans overnight (in the slow cooker), rinse them, change the water and then cook them in the slow cooker, usually with no fuss or attention required.

    What’s your recipe for the “baked beans” additives?

  16. 16.

    chopper

    just waiting for mclaren to walk in and declare emphatically that chili sucks and everyone who likes it is a “fucking retard”.

  18. 18.

    chopper

    @Steeplejack:

    i have a combo pressure/slow cooker. works great in both cases and there are things a pressure cooker really helps with (like making homemade stock).

  22. 22.

    Keith P.

    I’m making a whole roasted cauliflower for dinner tonight. I’d never heard of it until a couple of months ago, and apparently it’s a big trend in restaurants that I missed. I got an orange one, but the store was out of purple ones, so I can’t do a Mardi Gras-themed version.

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I thought he would go with the “Real chili doesn’t have beans, you heretic!” hard line, then post an obscure link to an old recipe consisting of stringy jackalope meat and jalapeño juice.

  26. 26.

    Chat Noir

    Since Tuesday is Mardi Gras, we’re making vegan gumbo and jambalaya. Both Paul Prudhomme recipes and both very tasty. Also, king cake!

  27. 27.

    Steeplejack

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Good to see you here. My topical blog fatigue is morphing into blog chronic fatigue syndrome. Even Cole’s “I’m sick of all the bullshit” post hit a TBogg unit. So I come here looking for relief and find that this thread has flatlined with 20-odd comments in two hours. Almost has me pining for the late-night music threads with you know who.

  28. 28.

    Steve from Antioch

    Supporting football is fucking barbaric – no different in my mind than supporting boxing or bullfighting.

  30. 30.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Steep, I’m here for you. Clinton’s national lead is vanishing. Probably time for my fellow Clinton supporters to stop being buttholes. Put apple juice in your baked beans – that’s the killer app for beans. Favorite Earth, Wind & Fire song, After The Love Has Gone. I used to play it back to back to back to back some weekends. Unbeknownst to me, Mrs. Fuckhead would be upstairs crying her eyes out, thinking I was trying to send her a message. WTH.

  32. 32.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Unbeknownst to me, Mrs. Fuckhead would be upstairs crying her eyes out, thinking I was trying to send her a message.

    Are you sure that you weren’t? Deep down, I mean?

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Okay, that gave me the out-loudiest LOL since someone here quoted Triumph the Insult Comic Dog as (allegedly) complaining to Debbie Wasserman Schultz about the scheduling of the debates and saying that he hadn’t “seen anything buried so deep since [he] pulled out of Lassie.”

  39. 39.

    p.a.

    Relatively quick ‘mole’ to have in fridge for chili, stews, etc. Sorry, no quantities. Have fun.

    Assorted dried chiles. Mine always includes guajillo, pasilla, ancho. Puya, New Mex etc fine too.
    Preheat oven to 250, toast chiles only 2-3 mins until you can smell them. Some recipes say
    to toast in a pan but I think the heat is too uneven.
    Soak anchos in hot water minimum 20 mins; they’re tougher than others.
    Seed peppers, rough chop, add to blender.
    Salt
    Ground spices of choice. I keep it basic: cumin.
    Liquid. I prefer simple lager, but experiment with malty/fruity beers. Avoid hoppy beers.
    Agave nectar/honey. Molasses might work.
    Optional seeded & skinned tomato.
    Optional chile d’arbol or cayenne powder.
    Process

    To pan on medium high add 1 T oil, tomato paste. Cook paste briefly then add processed mixture.

    Cook, stirring, 3-4 mins. Adjust for salt, sweet, and heat. It will tend to taste bitter, but that’s ok. This will cook out when you use it in dishes.
    Cool, store in glass in fridge.
    Add to chili, stews, soups at start. I like it on chicken baked in glazed containers or dutch oven (doesn’t dry out like it would in the open oven). Would be good in clay pot too but would stain it to hell.

  44. 44.

    catclub

    @Keith P.:

    and apparently it’s a big trend in restaurants

    You are not kidding. Also at my house, now. The key is the goat cheese mix/spread. The cauliflower
    is mostly just the carrier for that.

  55. 55.

    NotMax

    This dip is so-o-o-o good.

    And you get to eat the bowl.

    Also very amenable to customizing – leave things out and add other suitable things in, make it hotter or spicier, it will still do just fine. Do NOT, however, use low-fat cream cheese or any variation other than room temperature blocks of the real stuff..

    Crab too pricey? Think about substituting an Italian brand of canned tuna. Or smoked salmon. Or diced cooked chicken.

  56. 56.

    PurpleGirl

    Tamara @ top:

    In my house we serve chili with fritos and shredded cheddar, layered in a bowl – fritos, chili, cheese and more fritos.

    I make a taco casserole in a similar manner: chili or meat with taco spices, taco or corn chips, cheddar or monterey jack cheese, layered and then baked at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes. Served with more chips or rice. Sometimes I top it with salsa before baking. I might try it with Rotel next time I make it.

  58. 58.

    PurpleGirl

    @benw: I like Forsters. First at it at a science fiction convention, at a bid party for a world con in Australia. The bid committee had Australian wine and Forsters at the party. I found the size of the can to be hilarious.

  60. 60.

    Bruce C Webb

    @Keith P.: Roasted cauliflower is nice. Particularly once you recognize it is a great base for topping with your favorite cheese or sauce or cheese sauce recipe. The cauliflower is good and good for you and jeez who needs to count the calorie/fat/salt content of the topping.

    I like a lot of foods for this purpose, solid, satisfying and doesn’t take away from the gooey goodness of whatever you put on top. And this extends to foods beyond starchy veggies, I can’t tell you how many times people have promoted various sea food delicacies with the ‘advice’ “It tastes great with lemon garlic butter!”

    To which I reply “Yeah sure ya betcha, with enough lemon garlic butter pea gravel is not bad”. I am a mediocre cook from a family of great cooks and so tend to adhere to the lazy cook’s trick: sure maybe the underlying dish isn’t so great but enough garlic and green chile and everything is great. (I live in Southern New Mexico and everything is Hatch Green Chile here. Hatch being 20 miles up the road. Yum! Hot and full of flavor)

  61. 61.

    Bill

    @raven: Once upon a restaurant, I was put in charge of the staff meal for that day, and someone suggested a turkey meatloaf. I made, instead, a meatloaf turkey.

  62. 62.

    Bill

    @PurpleGirl: Oilcans of Fosters, particularly Foster’s Ale in the green can, are a true source of joy for me. They’re 25 ounces, if memory serves, so just about 2 beers exactly. Here’s the trick- each one makes me about 2.3 times as happy as a single beer, so a net gain of approximately .15 happinesses per Fosters. That’s about 1.8 happinesses per case (of 12) to the good. Over time, that could add up to me being slightly less miserable, which is a societal win.

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