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It's cold outside and chili seems to go pretty well in these temps.
As published in the Pond Boss magazine a couple of years ago. I actually found a recipe like this on the web and started messing with it. Some of you might remember when I submitted it to Lusk.

1 lb breakfast sausage
1 lb ground beef
2 cans Rotel tomato and pepper mix
2 onions chopped up
4 to 5 cloves of minced and crushed garlic
2 large cans of chopped up chiles. Anaheim is pretty good but genuine hatch is the best. Pick your own poison concerning heat.

Seasoning mix (This stuff should always be fresh stuff.)

2 tbsp. chili powder
2 tbsp. fajita powder
4 tbsp. coriander
4 tsp cumin
3 tsp garlic powder
1.5 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp crushed hot red pepper(optional)

Cook ground beef and sausage with about 2 TBSP of the seasoning mix. Drain grease and add 2 cans of Rotel or just tomatoes, chopped onions, garlic, peppers and the rest of the seasoning mix. Add a couple of cups of water. Bring it to a boil and turn the heat down to a simmer for a couple of hours.

Depending on your taste, you can cut out the crushed red peppers. If you like more HEAT, use a can of Rotel with habaneros. Canned tomatoes also work but that's like kissing your sister.

I have a pot of it going now.

NACHOS.

I generally make nachos to go with chili. This is the real kind that Senora Fierra showed me an bunch of years ago. You'll never find this in a restaurant, football game or movie. BTW, they didn't have saltine or ritz crackers in Mexico but were loaded with the fixings for tortillas.

Quarter some corn tortillas. Flour also works but it just ain't right.

Drop into(maybe ease them in) some hot grease, corn oil or olive oil. They all work. Cook until hardened but not burnt. Pick them out and drain on paper towels.

Put them on a cookie sheet. Top with about a tsp of refried beans and s little bit of SHARP cheddar cheese. Why sharp? Because the Senora said so. Top each with a slice of pickled jalapeno(or fresh). You can leave the jalapeno off if desired but I think the jalapeno adds to a reasonably bland taste. Some people heat them with pepper but take it off before eating it. It adds just a little bit of spice that way.

Put them in the oven on broil until the cheese melts and the beans are hot.

Let them cool for a minute or the cheese will dang sure burn the top of your mouth.

Every time one of y'all Texas boys posts a chili recipe I have to ask this. Where's the beans? Looks like a great recipe.

I love chili this time of year when its cold. That looks good very similar to the way I do it. I like mixing some pork sausage in. But Deer meat is better than ground beef for chili.

I agree but this is a generic recipe. Also, the ground venison isn't back from the processor. If it was, I would be using it right now.

No beans in TEJAS chili. Actually, I'm neutral on the beans but me wife doesn't like them and I get too many nasty comments from the guys who consider themselves chili cooks.

However, if you buy a chili cookbook, 90% of the recipes contain beans.

Dave, thanks for the recipe. I'm gonna try this next week.

Dave, I made chili using your recipe....OUTSTANDING!!

I have a couplpe goose breast, I was wondering if they would make a good chilli. Cubed or ground...

I use my homemade salsa (mild) in mine. Add some paste for body then beans (black, kidney, pinto), meat and maybe some chili powder for seasoning.

Bobby, heck yea goose breats make great chili meat. Its almost just like beef. Chop it up good and cook it with all the spice like you do chili.

Gotta make some more this week. This will be for the in laws with NO heat. They are in their upper 80's.

If you guys want some really good chili powder, take a look at the site for Pendery's in Fort Worth. I can get lost wandering in there for about an hour. Last week I went there for more chili powder and fajita seasoning. And, as usual, bought a small book about cooking on a stick and hobo (campfire) cooking. The book wasn't worth the $10 I spent but I'm a sucker for books.

Sooner or later, the processor will finish with the 2 deer we took in and I'll be using that.

BTW, I rarely miss a chance to make the nachos with chili, enchiladas or homemade vegetable/beef soup.