Kitchen

[RedTop]

For me, it's thick with ground beef, onions, kidney beans, crushed tomatoes and tomato sauce with just enough beef broth to get the consistency just right. I like a bit of heat and smokiness as well. No crackers, no sour cream, and no cheese for me, but yes to cornbread.

[Sooner]

On 1/7/2015 RedTop said: For me, it's thick with ground beef, onions, kidney beans, crushed tomatoes and tomato sauce with just enough beef broth to get the consistency just right. I like a bit of heat and smokiness as well. No crackers, no sour cream, and no cheese for me, but yes to cornbread.

Try a little smoked paprika--but go easy until you find out how much you like!!!

[brewhaha]

No hot spices or whole tomatoes for me.

[JustJules]

Nightowlz, your chili recipe sounds good, interesting adding both the coffee and beer. I must say that I've never had chili with carrots in it. I think I would leave the carrots out and munch on them while I made the chili.

[Snowpuppy]

When I decide to make chili it's usually clean the fridge of leftovers that can go in so it's never the same twice.

A few grape tomatoes? In. Leftover chopped onion? In. Leftover chopped celery starting to wilt? In.Wilting green pepper? In.

I started making my chili with ground turkey. Really nice taste, lower calories and fat than beef. No beans (lower carbs) but I like it thick, not runny or soupy with sour cream & shredded cheese, please!

[pupwhipped]

Oh NO! Forrestwolf, I'm just about always on the same page as you, but we're partin ways on this one. Ha! I like my chili with: ground beef, BEANS and more beans!, chopped tomatoes for SURE, a little bit spicy, onions (sautéed with the chili, not raw on top) cheese (on top) and God's most perfect food, Fritos! And oddly enough, I don't care for milk at all but I have to have a cold mug of it with my chili. This is exactly what I had for supper last night!

[Iwantcoffee]

I made chili for lunch today. I use ground beef, chili powder, cumin and tomato sauce, no beans or onion. I like the flavor of Mexene chili powder.

[ChynnaBlue]

Kidney beans

No cheese

Not a lot of spice, because I get heartburn

Lots of crackers crumbled up in it OR with sourdough bread (I'm a San Franciscan girl!)

No raw onions

I prefer ground beef if I make it myself, but don't mind cubed

Not too much chili powder (see above)

I HATE big chunks of stewed tomatoes, but I do like a little more than tomato sauce and paste. If I include canned stewed tomatoes in my own, I cut them up into small pieces before I put them in the pot.

[Mary Bailey]

my last batch of chili was: ground beef, onion, 15 bean (the dried soup beans), crushed tomatoes with chilies, low sodium V8, chili powder, red chili flakes, pepper.

To my bowl I add: sour cream and shredded cheese & crushed tortilla chips.

it was perfect

[rudy]

All of the above.