With the first actual cold front potentially arriving this week, I plan to make a big pot of chili. My wife and I swap between family recipes every year for the first of the year. Mine has beans (and potatoes, I know, it's weird) and hers doesn't. Anyone have any interesting or different chili recipes that they enjoy making? We have a lot of chili meat from a cow we bought and plan on making quite a bit this winter.

Do a search for the "Did somebody say chili" thread. Theres some great ones.

I prefer beans in my chili but potatoes?

Don't knock it till you try it

Bruce Almighty said:

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Potatoes? That ain't chili.

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Neither is beans. Both are a stew, which is fine for what it is.

Chili is stew

We grew up eating what our dad called Dutch chili. Beef, kidney beans, diced tomatoes, tomato juice. I've heard dropping 1 tater in it cuts down the acidity level of the tomatoes.

I buy my Chile powder from Chimayo New Mexico. The sun dried variety is a game changer.

Rexter said:

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We grew up eating what our dad called Dutch chili. Beef, kidney beans, diced tomatoes, tomato juice. I've heard dropping 1 tater in it cuts down the acidity level of the tomatoes.

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I've seen baking soda used to cut down the acidity of tomatoes as well.

True Texas chili can contain anything from the garden, just like gumbo. If you have/had grandparents or great grandparents who were Texan, you know this. It's the carpetbaggers that get hung up on an authentic definition of Texas chili.

I guess I can put eggplant in my chili and call it authentic Texas chili as long as I grow it in my backyard.

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FIDO*98* said:

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Did you just make that up and it sounded good in your head. That couldn't be more incorrect

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Do you make "true Texas Chili" ? What's you're recipe for it? If you use fresh beef from HEB that couldn't be more incorrect. It's not true Texas chili like the original. Now if you leave said beef out on the counter for 5 or six days and it starts getting a little ripe and aromatic and then make your chili it's much more like the original .