Lazychili for Work! (chili sin carne)
Well, there’s the ingredients for the pot of lazychili (yes, modifications are quite allowed) that I made for the potluck thing at work tomorrow. I hope people like it… It’s pretty damn spicy.
One thing I learned is that the cactus should be cut up before putting it in the chili. Towards the end of the cooking I realized that it would be too stringy, so I stirred as many pieces of cactus (as possible) to the top, pulled them out with a fork, then chopped them and put them back in. Oh, and cactus has a texture somewhere between a nicely cooked green bean and perfectly cooked bamboo shoots. And it comes soaking in a thick vinegar sauce with herbs and onions and a pepper. I pulled out the pepper and onion before dumping it in the pot, though, as I didn’t want those large pieces swimming around in there.
The only ingredients used above and beyond what you see above are a bit of cocoa powder (maybe 1 tbsp), some salt, and a large pinch of black pepper. Oh, and love. (No, not that kind of love. Sicko.)
I should probably note that the bottle of beer is my Rochefort 10 Clone (photo gallery retired) which, unfortunately, never carbonated. It’s very malty and alcoholic, though, and it goes really well in food. So I guess it’ll be relegated to the duty of a nice, malty, cooking beer. Oh well…
Anyway, that’s the lazychili. And here is a photo of the lazychili in the pot, just as it was starting to boil.
UPDATE: I should probably mention that the shotglasses each contain one shot of this tequila. From the chili kit I only used the powder, along with another 2 tbsp or so of some leftover McCormick chili powder I had. Oh, and the chipoltes were chopped up pretty finely. And the obscured Bush’s can contains white kidney beans.
I just finished my poyluck for tomorrow. full report later.
Ooh, what did you make?
Black/purple thai sticky rice with wasabi, ginger, tamarind paste, scallions, roasted garlic, soy sauce, sushi vinegar, raw honey, sesame oil, fresh cilantro and garnished with avocado. :) serve chilled. It’s vegan (although the honey is questionable for some, I hope the bees are goddamn free-hive or something), as most people at my work are ot carnivores.
I’m just amused over turning all my coweorkers’ mouths purple.
Hehe, that sounds mighty tasty… I love cold rice ‘salads’ or whatever they are called. :)
that looks good. i could go for some chili. i have not had chili in a long time. i think i will make some soon. i know i have to most interesting and insightful things to say in my comments. haha
Damn, I’d offer you some but I’ve only got one serving left over. :\ The crock pot was just about full, and I was able to pull off one serving in a container for dinner this weekend.
For some reason I’d always believed nopalitos to be some sort of pepper, not cactus. Now I have to try them. :)
They are really quite good. Just try them straight out of the jar (or fresh) then just figure out where they’d go best.
that’s lazy chili?
too much work for lazy chili.
This is a real man’s lazy chili :)
Re: that’s lazy chili?
Mmm. Heart.
Have you had fresh cactus? It gets slimy, like okra.
Nope, not yet… But the jarred stuff was pretty slimy. I thought it was taking a long time to drain, until I realized that what I was seeing was long slimy threads coming out of the jar.
I had a bag of them, fresh, that had been in the refridgerator too long, and when I tried to cook with them they came out in a clump of green slime. They’re beautiful, though.