Yes, it's another foodie thread! YAY!
Okay, I have made chili three times in my life. The first time was for a local chili cookoff and I took second place. The second time was for a different local chili cookoff and I took fourth place in the traditional category. (There were no categories in the first cookoff.)
Well, next weekend, there are TWO chili cookoffs. One on Saturday the 13th and one on Sunday the 14th. Needless to say, I am stoked. I get another two cracks at the top prize (whatever it is, I don't care, I just want to win, damn it! ), and I get another chance at tweaking my chili recipe to get it where it needs to be.
Now I have a friend, Cookie. Cookie is a lovely young lady who, like me, loves to cook. Hell, she has been known to cook great big batches of stuff just to bring in to her local bar to feed the staff and the regulars. In any case, in the second chili cookoff mentioned above, Cookie took 2nd in the hot category. And she and I started talking food and cooking.
With the two chili cookoffs coming up, we are having a blast. And while we are each going to cook our own chilis in each cookoff, we are also going to collaborate on a third chili. So last night we got together to brain storm.
And what a brain storm it was! We had a lot of great ideas about what direction we could go, but we both knew that we did not want to do something standard with the collaboration....we wanted something different. (Our own chilis are both going to be more on the traditional side.) So after many beers, looking up some basic recipes to get an idea, we finally settled on something that is either going to be spectacular, or a spectacular failure: a Triple Mollusk White Chili, using clams, oysters, mussels, and white beans, among other things.
This is going to be FUN!
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Okay, I have made chili three times in my life. The first time was for a local chili cookoff and I took second place. The second time was for a different local chili cookoff and I took fourth place in the traditional category. (There were no categories in the first cookoff.)
Well, next weekend, there are TWO chili cookoffs. One on Saturday the 13th and one on Sunday the 14th. Needless to say, I am stoked. I get another two cracks at the top prize (whatever it is, I don't care, I just want to win, damn it! ), and I get another chance at tweaking my chili recipe to get it where it needs to be.
Now I have a friend, Cookie. Cookie is a lovely young lady who, like me, loves to cook. Hell, she has been known to cook great big batches of stuff just to bring in to her local bar to feed the staff and the regulars. In any case, in the second chili cookoff mentioned above, Cookie took 2nd in the hot category. And she and I started talking food and cooking.
With the two chili cookoffs coming up, we are having a blast. And while we are each going to cook our own chilis in each cookoff, we are also going to collaborate on a third chili. So last night we got together to brain storm.
And what a brain storm it was! We had a lot of great ideas about what direction we could go, but we both knew that we did not want to do something standard with the collaboration....we wanted something different. (Our own chilis are both going to be more on the traditional side.) So after many beers, looking up some basic recipes to get an idea, we finally settled on something that is either going to be spectacular, or a spectacular failure: a Triple Mollusk White Chili, using clams, oysters, mussels, and white beans, among other things.
This is going to be FUN!
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