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Kick Ass Chili Recipie
What you need
- 1.5 - 2 # of ground beef,chicken or turkey
- 3/4 C. cooking sherry
- one 28 oz. can of tomato sauce
- one 28 oz. can tomato puree
- one 32-40 oz. can kidney beans (optional)
- 10 tbsp red chili powder
- 3 tbsp cinnamon
- 6 tbsp brown sugar
- 3 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 large white onion
- 1/2 cup vinegar
What to do with all that stuff
- Place the meat, frozen or thawed, into a large stewpot. As the meat
cooks, add the garlic, sugar and cinnamon untill well mixed. Splash a
little of the sherry and then a little vinegar on the meat untill it is
all cooked. Then pour the remainder of the cooking sherry into the meat
and allow to evaporate. Save the remainder of the vinegar for later.
- Pour the cans of tomato sauce and puree into the pot. Stir well to
mix the cooked meat and the tomato sauce.
- Add 2 tbsp. of chili powder.
- Add 1 tbsp. garlic powder.
- Cover and simmer over low heat.
- Coarsely chop 1/2 of the onion and add to the chili.
- Stir frequently.
- Coarsely chop other half of onion and set aside.
- Add rest of chili and garlic you may add salt and sugar to taste.
- Allow to simmer over very low heat for two to three hours stirring
frequently.
- After you finish cooking, set on back of stove,covered, and allow to
cool.
- After it cools add the remaining vinegar, and stir well. Then set
in refrigerator for two to five days. The longer it sits,
the more it "fermints", and the better it tastes.
To serve
Warm over low heat till steaming. Then serve in bowls with shredded
cheddar or Jack cheese, sour cream, and the other half of that onion
sprinkled on top. Garlic bread goes well with this too!
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My First Turkey
I just cooked my first turkey yesterday (10 -8)! I had this bird given to
me a while ago and had never bothered with it because I didn't have any idea
how to go about cooking it. But with a little help from my mom, I got
through it and it came out great!
It's really simple.
- Heat oven to 325 degrees.
- Remove neck and gibblets from cavity. Sometimes the gibblets are
stuffed into the neck hole. You will use these later for the gravy and
stuffing.
- Take thawed turkey and place in a broiler pan BREAST DOWN. This
makes for juicier breast meat.
- Spray with butter flavored Pam or other butter flavored non-stick
cooking spray.
- Wrap bird completely in aluminum foil.
- Make sure you know the approxamate weight of your bird.
- Cook bird for 20 minutes per pound of bird.
for example: you would cook an eleven pound bird for 220 minutes or 3
hours and 40 minutes.
- About 20 minutes before the bird is done, loosen but do not remove
the foil around the bird
- Take the neck and gibblets and boil them in water. Ladle off the
foam and discard. When the meat is brown take it and chop it up finely
and mix with the stuffing mix. Use the water to replace the water called
for in the stuffing recipie. (I used stuffing from a box....so sue me!)
Mine came out perfect using this method
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Homemade Chicken Soup
What You Need
- About 2 lb. of chicken. Dark meat or white meat doesn't matter. I
prefer dark meat.
- Six ounces of spaghetti broken in half twice.
- Tobasco, black pepper, salt, onion, and garlic (fresh or
powder).to taste
- Large cooking pot.
What to do with all this stuff.
- Place chicken in pot and fill with water to cover with about 3 inches.
- Place spaghetti in pot.
- Start heat under pot and wait for boil.
- When boiling, cover and continue boiling for about 20 minutes.
- Fish out chicken pieces with tongs and remove meat from bone and chop
into small pieces.
- Put chopped chicken back into pot and season to taste with Tobasco,
pepper, salt, onion, and garlic.
- Cover and reduce heat.
- Simmer for about 1 hour.
This stuff will open your sinuses if you've got a cold and if you don't
have one it will scare off any you're trying to get.
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Last revised November 23, 1995