Sunday, March 3, 2013

Chili Love

Today, I made my best pot of chili ever:

1.5 pd ground sirloin
2 medium onions
5 cloves garlic
3 peppers: yellow, red, green

chili powder to taste
cumin to taste
salt to taste 
2 15 oz. cans small fancy red beans
1 quart stewed tomatoes

I used my crock-pot pot on the stove top to brown  the beef.

Drained it on a paper towel while I food-processored the onions and garlic.

Sauted them in olive oiled crock-pot pot while I food processored the peppers (side note: at first, I feared this had been a mistake, as they quickly liquified, but in the end, I think this deepened the flavor. Or maybe that's nonsense).

Added the peppers to the onions for a few minutes before adding the chili powder and cumin.

Then I moved the pot into the crock-pot cooker thing and added the beef (sans excess fat), beans, and tomatoes. A little more salt. And cooked it on low for 6 hours.

Lo and behold, it was hearty and all. 
Well, it's happened. The Duck (my daughter) asked for an American Girl doll for her birthday.

And so we are catapulted into the mainstream of American Consumer Girlhood.

It had to happen, but now I have two questions.

1) Why does this does this bother me more than The Bear's (my youngest son) Lightening McQueen obsession?

And 2) how long before Barbies infiltrate?