Addendum to Joe Gracey's Chili (Non) Carne

From Paul Kirsch:

I used Joe's recipe last night and made a batch of his chili. It was really good. It tasted like, um, chili.

Since I'm used to usually making a non-meat based chili by putting in some meat substitute (bulgur wheat or some fake meat product), I was impressed by how good this came out. You never missed the dead animals at all.

I did make 3 adjustments to his recipe:

1) I used canned pinto beans 'cuz I wanted to make the chili last night so I couldn't soak 'em overnight.

2) I used posole (or mote or yellow hominy, depending on what you call it in your part of the country) instead of the corn. I figure it's still pretty much the same thing and I like the texture of posole better than corn in stews.

3) I used New Mexico Chile Powder and it was pretty hot so I used 4 tbsp instead of 6.

Wonderful recipe Joe!

-paul
pkirsch@primavera.com