Culinary experimentation

[daemonluna]

The girl is working until 8:30 tonight. Hopefully, when she gets home we will have chili for supper.

I say hopefully because I'm making the chili. Following her directions, but still.

The progress so far:
- brown a pound of hamburger meat.
- toss into some olive oil over medium heat:
- one white onion and half a red onion left in the fridge
- a zucchini
- some mushrooms
- about three stalks of celery
- half a bulb of roasted garlic, and a couple cloves of raw garlic, diced
- Stir. Brown. Add the hamburger.
- Add in an indeterminate amount of: salt, pepper, chili powder, hot pepper flakes
- Add a large can of diced tomatoes and a bottle of beer. (Take the tomatoes out of the can and the beer out of the bottle first)
- Simmer. A lot.
- Add a tablespoon of cocoa powder.

Now to see how it all turns out. And if we've got the stuff to make cornbread.

Comments

[mimisgrotto.livejournal.com]

Well, chilli powder and chocolate actually CAN work together, maybe she ain't ;)
I've seen chocolate chilli ice cream before.

It;s 9am, I shouldn't be craving chilli at this hour, damn you! ;)

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

It's the same kind of thing as chocolate chili ice cream, but without the sweet. If that makes sense. A lot of more traditional Mexican food uses pure cocoa--like mole sauce.

A word of warning, though--Barb made a really good Mexican chicken stew with cocoa and green chilies. It was over the couple days of the week where we both work late, so we had it for supper two nights in a row at nine o'clock at night. And then we couldn't figure out why neither one of us could sleep. Cocoa? Has a fair bit of caffiene. Oops.

Now it's midnight and I'm craving Mexican food...