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Southern_grits
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10-08-2009

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 7:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Southern_grits a private message Print Post    
Well, somehow I lost a post.

Baby, I apologise if I sounded like a jerk, I thought you were joking. I always just use white bread but I'd think you could use any bread at all. Hmm, now that I think about it I bet french bread would really bring it up a notch or two.

Deb, sounds like we DO have similar cooking styles. Unless a recipe is just exceptional I usually fiddle with it. Plus, my husband is generally not a very adventurous eater so my first step in any recipe is to ask myself... will he eat it? If the answer is probably not the next question is, can I change it up some so he will?

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 8:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Our SOS was made on white bread, toasted.

And I agree with Twinkie...chili MUST have beans! I think I've seen that in Texas, chili is made with beef but not ground beef (hamburger) like I use. And I don't believe they use beans, either. Must be the recipes are regional.

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
LOL at your answers! Yes, I was joking, SG :-)

But I really haven't heard of chili without beans. I thought it was either chili or chili con carne, but then I'm a yankee...

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 5:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Wrong..wrong...wrong...no beans in chili! LOL

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 5:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Well then what the heck do you DO with beans? I think it proves that we Yankees won the war because we were gas powered!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
ROFL!!!
they are sides or soups, NOT chili!!

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
It ain't chili if it ain't got beans!

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Made Ina Garten's lentil and sausage soup - it makes a HUGE pot, though, so now I have it for lunch for the rest of the week AND have some in the freezer. Delicious, as is her usual (I think it was someone here who recommended it, but I'm too lazy to go back through the archives! )

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Oh Tex, you're just a crazyhead

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
I always put beans in homemade chili. However, the only canned chili I buy is Wolf brand no beans (for chili dogs & frito pies). Go figure!

Tonight I'm making taco meat. We're having soft tacos, spanish rice, & refried beans.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Texasdeb, I am rescinding your citizenship papers! LOL

Glenn
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07-05-2003

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 7:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Glenn a private message Print Post    
Annie, it may be a good thing I never got my papers. If I am not putting beans in chili, you will find brown rice mixed in.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 7:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
acccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!no beans!!!!



Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 10:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
To all concerned - from someone who has been all over the place - as nearly as I can tell, no beans in chili is strictly a Texas thang, but they get real hot about it. I had never heard of it before I moved to Texas (1987-1995), but I learned quick enough that was the ironclad rule.

I now mostly spend winters in Texas.

Oh yeah, and to answer what you do with the beans - well, yes, they are a side dish, like pinto beans or charro beans, both of which are sort of soup-ish, but sort of also too thick to be soup. Oh hell, just come down here, go to a BBQ joint, and order up a side of beans. They are actually quite delicious. I loved mine so much a couple weeks ago that I had a second cup (they are like a free appetizer while you are waiting for your order to arrive) and farted all the way home.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, January 11, 2010 - 10:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
I always put beans in my homemade chili, don't pay too much attention when I buy a can though.

And speaking of beans, made a big crockpot full of them tonight so that's what we had for dinner. Had quite a bit left over, tomorrow will be something mexican, either burritos, taco salad or something.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 5:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I had never heard of it before I moved to Texas (1987-1995), but I learned quick enough that was the ironclad rule.

pretty much! LOL

i make a pot of beans and have it with cornbread all the time. pintos with cheese is yummy!

Southern_grits
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10-08-2009

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Southern_grits a private message Print Post    
Pinto beans and cornbread is fine dining in my book.

Not feeling well at all so we are hving frozen egg rolls. I may even make everyone 'nuke their own.

Christy358
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07-10-2007

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 4:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
Got a roast in the crock pot. Hope it turns out.

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 4:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
tossed salad, meatloaf, rice and lima beans.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 4:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Wow, I missed all the debating when I posted a couple of days ago that I was making chili (without beans). And no beans is not just limited to Texas.

We have a huge Chili Appreciation Society cook-off with over 100 teams every year. Beans and fillers are banned being put in chili that is submitted for competition. And the winner of this competition goes on to compete on a state level and then to the Nationals. According to the Chili Appreciation Society, "Real chili doesn't have beans."

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 4:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Pork Chops and Applesauce! :-)

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 5:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
We had DS's birthday dinner a bit early this week since he's got a huge concert the night of his birthday (3 HS jazz bands and a professional jazz band - last year it was 3 hours long!).

Dinner - I grilled a 2 lb. bone-in sirloin steak and made green bean casserole. :-) (His birthday night will probably be takeout pizza.)

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 5:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
So there!!!!! LOL

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    


Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 5:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
According to the Goddessatlaw Raised on Her
Grandmother's Prize-winning Chili Society, real chili MUST have beans - and I'm talking the dark red 88's, not the light red 44's. And if you're making it right, you start with kidney suet. A lot of it.